Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing / [edited by] Karen Devereaux Melillo, Susan Crocker Houde.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2005.Description: xxiii, 416 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0763732729 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.97/689 22
LOC classification:
  • RC451 .A5G479
NLM classification:
  • WY 152
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Contents:
Introduction and overview of aging and older adulthood / Karen Devereaux Melillo -- Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing as a (sub) specialty / Karen Devereaux Melillo, Lee Ann Hoff, and Martha A. Huff -- Comprehensive mental health assessment / Lee Ann Hoff and Lisa A. Brown -- Ethnic elders / Jane Cloutterbuck and Lin Zhan -- Mental health promotion / Charles E. Blair -- Geropsychopharmacology / Barbara J. Edlund and James Sterrett -- Nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders of late life / Eve Heemann Byrd -- Nursing assessment and treatment of anxiety in older adults / Marianne Smith -- Nursing assessment and treatment of psychoses in older adults / Janet C. Mentes and Julia K. Bail -- Nursing assessment and treatment substance abuse disorders in older -- Adults / Betty D. Morgan, Donna M. White and Ann X. Wallace -- Nursing assessment and treatment of delirium in older adults / Karen Dick and Catherine R. Morency -- Nursing assessment of older adults experiencing dementia, screening, making and communicating the diagnosis / Kathleen Sherrell and Madelyn Iris -- Nursing management of older adults with dementia, care environments, clients, and caregivers / Ruth Remington, Linda A. Gerdner, and Kathleen C. Buckwalter -- Addressing problem behaviors common to late-life dementias / Ruth Remington and May Futrell -- Family caregiving / Susan Crocker Houde -- Sleep disorders in older adults / Barbara Resnick, Marianne Shaughnessy, and Marjorie Simpson -- Pathological gambling in older adults / Cynthia H. Sullivan Kerber -- Elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer, Lisa Guadagno and Marguarette M. Bolton -- Nursing assessment and care of clients and their families at end-of-life / Michelle Doran and Karyn Geary -- Social, health and long-term care programs and policies affecting mental health of older adults / Kathy J. Fabiszewski -- Future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing in addressing older adult health care needs / Kathleen C. Buckwalter, Priscilla Ebersole, and Diane Feeney Mahoney.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview of aging and older adulthood / Karen Devereaux Melillo -- Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing as a (sub) specialty / Karen Devereaux Melillo, Lee Ann Hoff, and Martha A. Huff -- Comprehensive mental health assessment / Lee Ann Hoff and Lisa A. Brown -- Ethnic elders / Jane Cloutterbuck and Lin Zhan -- Mental health promotion / Charles E. Blair -- Geropsychopharmacology / Barbara J. Edlund and James Sterrett -- Nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders of late life / Eve Heemann Byrd -- Nursing assessment and treatment of anxiety in older adults / Marianne Smith -- Nursing assessment and treatment of psychoses in older adults / Janet C. Mentes and Julia K. Bail -- Nursing assessment and treatment substance abuse disorders in older -- Adults / Betty D. Morgan, Donna M. White and Ann X. Wallace -- Nursing assessment and treatment of delirium in older adults / Karen Dick and Catherine R. Morency -- Nursing assessment of older adults experiencing dementia, screening, making and communicating the diagnosis / Kathleen Sherrell and Madelyn Iris -- Nursing management of older adults with dementia, care environments, clients, and caregivers / Ruth Remington, Linda A. Gerdner, and Kathleen C. Buckwalter -- Addressing problem behaviors common to late-life dementias / Ruth Remington and May Futrell -- Family caregiving / Susan Crocker Houde -- Sleep disorders in older adults / Barbara Resnick, Marianne Shaughnessy, and Marjorie Simpson -- Pathological gambling in older adults / Cynthia H. Sullivan Kerber -- Elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer, Lisa Guadagno and Marguarette M. Bolton -- Nursing assessment and care of clients and their families at end-of-life / Michelle Doran and Karyn Geary -- Social, health and long-term care programs and policies affecting mental health of older adults / Kathy J. Fabiszewski -- Future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing in addressing older adult health care needs / Kathleen C. Buckwalter, Priscilla Ebersole, and Diane Feeney Mahoney.

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