Chapter 28 Preventing and Managing Aggressive Behavior Gail W. Stuart Healthy children raised in decent conditions among loving people in a gentle and just society where freedom and equality are…

Chapter 27 Behavior Change and Cognitive Interventions Gail W. Stuart Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learning Objectives 1. Describe behavior and…

Chapter 29 Somatic Therapies Carol M. Burns Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d, Pluck from the memory rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And…

Chapter 34 Community-Based Psychiatric Nursing Care Gail W. Stuart “What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community. T.S. Eliot,…

Chapter 6 Psychological Context of Psychiatric Nursing Care Gail W. Stuart Information is of no value for its own sake, but only because of its personal significance. Eric Berne Learning…

Chapter 39 The Military and Their Families Stephen T. Lesieur, James L. Harris and Mary Fraggos In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. José Narosky Learning Objectives 1. Describe the medical…

Chapter 12 Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Gail W. Stuart What is this thing called health? Simply a state in which the individual happens transiently to be perfectly adapted to…

Chapter 33 Hospital-Based Psychiatric Nursing Care Elizabeth G. Maree “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the…

Chapter 36 Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing Audrey Redston-Iselin I’m so mixed up and lonely. Can’t even make friends with my brain. I’m too young to be where I’m going. But I’m…

Chapter 8 Legal and Ethical Context of Psychiatric Nursing Care Gail W. Stuart Is it not, then, an atrocious anomaly that the treatment often meted out to insane persons is…