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This psychiatric-mental health undergraduate textbook emphasizes interpersonal relations as the foundation for practice in nursing. It provides an historical overview of the profession, and guides the student through the essential phases of self-discovery necessary to integrate interpersonal nursing theory into practice with various psychiatric populations. The book presents content designed to foster self-growth, including the importance of boundary management, in preparation for work with clients. Psychodynamic frames of reference and current neurobiological information underpinning practice are reviewed. Subsequent chapters focus on prominent and common mental illnesses, and weave both the psychodynamic and neurobiological concepts into strategies for nursing interventions. Clinical case studies with critical thinking exercises augment chapter discussions. Key topics: Use of interpersonal nursing theories and models to guide practice in the nurse patient relationship. Mental health trends and the current and historic role of the professional nurse Therapeutic use of self and therapeutic communication: from self discovery to interpersonal skill integration Nursing interventions: clinical decision making, critical thinking, and counselling interventions Application of interpersonal theory to practice skill sets Acute and chronic illnesses, including thought, anxiety, personality, cognitive, and eating disorders Ethical and legal aspects of mental health care

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Jeffrey S. Jones, DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, CST, LNC, is the president and owner of his own psych APRN business, Jeffrey S. Jones, LLC, in Mansfield, Ohio. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digests Vickie L. Rogers, DNP, RN, is on the faculty at Texas Christian University (TCU), where she teaches Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.

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