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Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing / edited by Karen Devereaux Melillo, Susan Crocker Houde.

Contributor(s): Melillo, Karen Devereaux | Houde, Susan Crocker.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Sudbury, Mass. ; London : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2005Description: xxiii, 416 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0763732729; 9780763732721.Subject(s): Geriatric psychiatry | Geriatric nursing | Psychiatric nursing | Geriatric Nursing -- methods | Geriatric Psychiatry -- methods | Mental Disorders -- nursing -- Aged | Maturation & ageing | NursingDDC classification: 618.97689 GER
Contents:
Introduction and overview of aging and older adulthood / Karen Devereaux Melillo -- Geropsychiatric nursing as a subspecialty / Karen Devereaux Melillo, Lee Ann Hoff, and Martha A. Huff -- Comprehensive mental health assessment: an integrated approach / Lee Ann Hoff, Lisa Brown -- Ethnic elders / Jane Cloutterbuck, Lin Zhan -- Mental health promotion / Charles Blair -- Psychopharmacology / Barbara Edlund, James Sterrett, Geoffry McEnany -- Nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders of late life / Eve Heemann Byrd -- Nursing assessment and treatment of anxiety in late life / Marianne Smith -- Psychosis in older adults / Janet C. Mentes, Julia K. Bail -- Substance abuse in older adults / Betty D. Morgan, Donna M. White, Ann X. Wallace --
Delirium / Karen Dick, Catherine R. Morency -- Nursing assessment of clients with dementias of late life: screening, diagnosis, and communication / Kathleen Sherrell, Madelyn Iris -- Nursing management of clients experiencing dementias of late life: care environments, clients, and caregivers / Ruth Remington, Linda A. Gerdner, Kathleen C. Buckwalter -- Addressing problem behaviors common to late-life dementias / Ruth Remington, May Futrell -- Family caregiving / Susan Crocker Houde -- Sleep disorders of late life / Barbara Resnick, Marianne Shaughnessy, Marjorie Simpson --
Problem and pathological gambling among older adults / Cynthia Sullivan Kerber -- Elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer, Lisa Guadagno, Marguarette M. Bolton -- End of life / Michelle Doran, Karyn Geary -- Social, health and long-term care programs and policies affecting mental health in older adults / Kathy J. Fabiszewski -- Future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing in addressing older adult health care needs / Priscilla Ebersole, Diane Feeney Mahoney, Kathleen Coen Buckwalter.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 618.97689 GER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 5 Available 38888000787089
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 618.97689 GER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 38888000570345
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 618.97689 GER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 38888000570337
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview of aging and older adulthood / Karen Devereaux Melillo -- Geropsychiatric nursing as a subspecialty / Karen Devereaux Melillo, Lee Ann Hoff, and Martha A. Huff -- Comprehensive mental health assessment: an integrated approach / Lee Ann Hoff, Lisa Brown -- Ethnic elders / Jane Cloutterbuck, Lin Zhan -- Mental health promotion / Charles Blair -- Psychopharmacology / Barbara Edlund, James Sterrett, Geoffry McEnany -- Nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders of late life / Eve Heemann Byrd -- Nursing assessment and treatment of anxiety in late life / Marianne Smith -- Psychosis in older adults / Janet C. Mentes, Julia K. Bail -- Substance abuse in older adults / Betty D. Morgan, Donna M. White, Ann X. Wallace --

Delirium / Karen Dick, Catherine R. Morency -- Nursing assessment of clients with dementias of late life: screening, diagnosis, and communication / Kathleen Sherrell, Madelyn Iris -- Nursing management of clients experiencing dementias of late life: care environments, clients, and caregivers / Ruth Remington, Linda A. Gerdner, Kathleen C. Buckwalter -- Addressing problem behaviors common to late-life dementias / Ruth Remington, May Futrell -- Family caregiving / Susan Crocker Houde -- Sleep disorders of late life / Barbara Resnick, Marianne Shaughnessy, Marjorie Simpson --

Problem and pathological gambling among older adults / Cynthia Sullivan Kerber -- Elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer, Lisa Guadagno, Marguarette M. Bolton -- End of life / Michelle Doran, Karyn Geary -- Social, health and long-term care programs and policies affecting mental health in older adults / Kathy J. Fabiszewski -- Future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing in addressing older adult health care needs / Priscilla Ebersole, Diane Feeney Mahoney, Kathleen Coen Buckwalter.