NEW APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

ISBN : 978-93-81390-09-2

• New approach to mentalehatlh
• Introduction and historical development
• Classification and assessment of mental disorders
• Therapeutic communication
• Neurotic disorders • Psychotic disorders
• Affective (mood) disorders
• Organic mental disorders (organic brain syndromes)
• Personality disorders • Disorders of childhood and adolescence
• Management of patients with substance use disorders
• Mental retardation (mental sub-normality or learning disability
• Psychiatric emergencies and crisis intervention
• Therapeutic modalities
• Preventive psychiatry