Written in a student-friendly style, this comprehensive text, and leading resource in the field of mental health nursing, emphasizes effective communication skills, details cultural considerations, and presents mental health disorders within a systematic organizational framework using the nursing process. It reflects the diversity of its student readers, and the belief that the practice of mental health nursing is in direct response to the social, cultural, environmental, and biological components of mental illness.
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Karen Lee Fontaine received her bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, a nursing degree from Luthern Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and her master's degree in psychiatric nursing from Rush University, Chicago, Illinois. Karen is currently a Professor of Nursing at Purdue University Calumet, where she has been teaching for 20 years. She is also a certified sex therapist and maintains a private practice counseling individuals and couples.
Karen's publishing awards include the AJN Book of the Year Award 2000 for her text entitled Healing Practices: Alternative Therapies for Nursing, Prentice Hall, and the Annual Nursing Book Review, Sigma Theta Tau 2000 for Mental Health Nursing 4e, Addison Wesley. Karen's distinguishing academic honors include the Luther Christman Excellence in Published Writing Award, Gamma Phi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, in 1997 and Distinguished Lecturer 1994-1995 from Sigma Theta Tau, International.
Karen is a frequent presenter at national and regional seminars covering psychiatric-mental health nursing practice, alternative therapies, sexuality, and sex therapy. She is a member of several professional associations, which include the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Karen has also served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy since 2000.
Karen lives on a sand dune in Miller Beach with her soul mate, Al, and their Greater Swiss Mountain dog, Whitney. She has three children, jean-Marc, Simone and Marcel, and three grandchildren, Danielle, Christopher, and Jaycee. Karen enjoys spending time with her family, art, reading, walking on the beach, and throwing "Goddess" parties with her friends.
Unit I Foundations of Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 1 Introduction to Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 2 The Family in Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 3 The Community in Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 4 The Role of Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 5 Legal and Ethical Issues
Chapter 6 Neurobiology and Behavior
Unit II Illness Management and Recovery
Chapter 7 Illness Management: Communication and Psychoeducation
Chapter 8 Illness Management: Common Clinical Behaviors
Chapter 9 Illness Management: Treatment Decisions
Chapter 10 Illness Management: Medications
Unit III Mental Disorders
Chapter 11 Anxiety, Dissociative, and Somatoform Disorders
Chapter 12 Eating Disorders
Chapter 13 Mood Disorders
Chapter 14 Schizophrenic Disorders
Chapter 15 Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 16 Personality Disorders
Chapter 17 Disorders of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 18 Gender Identity and Sexual Disorders
Unit IV Neurobehavioral Disorders
Chapter 19 Cognitive Impairment Disorders
Chapter 20 Neuropsychiatric Problems
Unit V Violence
Chapter 21 Suicide
Chapter 22 Interpersonal Violence
Chapter 23 Sexual Violence
Chapter 24 Community Violence
Chapter 25 Nursing Management of the Problems Associated With Exposure to Natural Disasters and Terrorism
