This text provides an overview of psychiatric illness and altered mental health, with emphasis on the psychiatric problems commonly seen in patients in nonpsychiatric care settings. It enables the LPN student to learn how to speak with patients, interpret their communication, assess and identify abnormal behaviors, and assist with expected treatment protocols. -- Emphasizes the psychiatric disorders that have the greatest possibility of occurring in the general patient population -- Provides clinical situations from general medical/surgical and long-term care settings to which the student can relate -- Covers personality development across the life span and developmental and sociocultural influences on the development of mental illness -- Each chapter includes learning objectives, key terms, key concepts, study concepts and exercises, and references -- Includes critical thinking exercises that consist of worksheets and problem-solving that have more than one possible outcome -- Appropriate chapters contain a table of medical illness or medications that may cause abnormal behaviors that may be confused with a psychiatric illness -- Appropriate chapters contain patient teaching information to facilitate compliance -- Explains and illustrates mechanism of action of psychiatric drugs
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Paperback, as new. Name penned on front endpaper; otherwise clean and tight. Second edition. Foreword by David C. Sabiston, Jr., M.D. Indexed. 665 pages. (more information)
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Year Book Medical Publishers. Mass Market PaperBack. 0815156707 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. 1989 Year Book Medical Publishers Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. 1989. (more information)
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