Mental Health A Pocket Guide, 4th Edition
This highly valued quick reference guide returns in its fourth edition to provide practical and helpful strategies for responding effectively to those in crisis.
Mental Health: A pocket guide delivers a comprehensive overview of the relevant concepts vital to contemporary mental health care. With a clear focus on the consumer, it covers the issues faced by people living with mental illness, as well as best practice approaches for primary health, first responders and multidisciplinary health care professionals.
This highly valued quick reference guide returns in its fourth edition to provide practical and helpful strategies for responding effectively to those in crisis.
Mental Health: A pocket guide delivers a comprehensive overview of the relevant concepts vital to contemporary mental health care. With a clear focus on the consumer, it covers the issues faced by people living with mental illness, as well as best practice approaches for primary health, first responders and multidisciplinary health care professionals.
Key Features
- Practical strategies for commonly encountered situations
- Easy to access information presented in bullet point and table format
- A recovery and person-centred care approach throughout
- Case studies
- Guidance on medications, assessment tools and terminology
- An eBook included in all print purchases
Author Information
| ISBN Number | 9780729544030 |
|---|---|
| Description Author List | By Debra O’Kane, RMN, ENB603, Grad Dip CN, MN, Grad Cert Ed (Higher Ed), Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator Bachelor of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Edition Number | 4 |
| Format | Book |
| Trim | 125w x 190h (4.92" x 7.48") |
| Imprint | Elsevier |
| Page Count | 200 |
| Publication Date | 19 Oct 2021 |
| Stock Status | IN STOCK |
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2. Working in a Recovery Framework
3. Essentials for Mental Health Practice
4. An Overview of Mental Health Problems
5. Mental Health Assessment
6. Assessing Risk
7. Behaviours of Concern
8. Mental Health Talking-Based Therapies
9. Managing Medications
10. Culture and Mental Health
11. Co-occurring Medical Problems
12. Loss and Grief
13. Law and Ethics
14. Settings for Mental Health Care
Appendix 1 Surviving Clinical Placement
Appendix 2 Who Does What in Mental Health?
Appendix 3 Abbreviations in Medication Administration
Appendix 4 Supporting People with Mental Illness taking Medication
Further Reading and Resources
Glossary
