Mental health nursing: A South African perspective

Ch 1: The history of mental health nursing

Ch 2: A conceptual framework for MHN

Ch 3: Comprehensive mental health care

Ch 4: Mental health care in the health care system

Ch 5: The consumers in mental health care

Ch 6: Legal structure

Ch 7: Ethical dilemmas in mental health nursing

Ch 8: Working with cultural diversity in mental health care

Ch 9: The mental health nursing process

Ch 10: Assessment of the psychiatric patient

Ch 11: Nursing interventions

Ch 12: Nursing the patient with an anxiety disorder

Ch 13: Nursing the patient with a mood disorder

Ch 14: Nursing the patient with schizophrenia

Ch 15: Nursing the patient with a substance-related disorder

Ch 16: Nursing the patient with a cognitive disorder

Ch 17: Nursing care of persons with intellectual disabilities

Ch 18: Nursing the patient with a personality disorder; Ch 19: People who have experienced trauma

Ch 20: People with mental illness who have comorbid general medical conditions

Ch 21: Mental health of people living with HIV or Aids

Ch 22: Mental health nursing of children and adolescents

Ch 23: Nursing forensic psychiatric patients

Appendix 1: Inpatient evaluation scale

Appendix 2: University of Natal Functional Assessment Scale

Appendix 3: examples of questions used in a psychiatric history

Appendix 4: Evaluation of group work

Appendix 5: Evaluation of mental health education

Appendix 6: Time-event chart for a patient with anxiety symptoms

Appendix 7: Hamilton anxiety rating scale

Appendix 8: Beck depression inventory

Appendix 9: Classification of psychiatric disorders of infancy, childhood & adolescence

Appendix 10: Glossary of psychiatric terms