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Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to Foundations of Mental Health Care, 5th Edition, Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is the fun and engaging way to focus your study time and effectively prepare for class, course exams, and the NCLEX exam. Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is comprised of a bank of high-quality practice questions that allows you to advance at your own pace - based on your performance - through multiple mastery levels for each chapter. A comprehensive dashboard allows you to view your progress and stay motivated. UNIQUE! Elsevier's trusted, market-leading content serves as the foundation for all questions, which are written, reviewed, and leveled by experienced nursing educators, item writers, and authors.UNIQUE! Unfolding questions become progressively more complex as you advance to higher levels, incorporating concepts such as delegation, multi-system disease, or complicating conditions to help you strengthen your critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.UNIQUE! Essential test-taking tips and strategies help you learn how to successfully dissect and tackle different question types and improve test-taking skills for both course exams and the NCLEX examination.Confidence level indicators allow you to indicate your confidence when submitting answers, providing valuable insight into areas where you might require further study.UNIQUE! Practice in Study Mode, which provides immediate feedback, or in Exam Mode where the quiz is timed and results are summarized at the end.UNIQUE! In addition to detailed rationales for each question, select questions include interactive, multimedia resources such as illustrations, animations, videos, audio clips, and study tips to help you master challenging material.The engaging, easy-to-use interface ensures that you'll be able to navigate through the program with ease.Multiple mastery levels for each chapter, topic, or concept allow you to progress from one level to the next based on your performance. Alternate item format questions - including multiple-response, fill-in-the-blank, prioritizing, graphic item options, chart/exhibit, video, audio, and hot spot - provide valuable NCLEX exam preparation.The comprehensive dashboard allows you to view your personal learning progress with summaries of your strengths, weaknesses, mastery levels, and normative data.
Contents
UNIT ONE1. The History of Mental Health Care2. Current Mental Health Care Systems3. Ethical and Legal Issues4. Sociocultural Issues5. Theories and Therapies6. Complementary and Alternative Therapies NEW!7. Psychotherapeutic Drug TherapyUNIT TWO: The Caregiver's Therapeutic Skills8. Skills and Principles of Mental Health Care9. Mental Health Assessment Skills10. Therapeutic Communication11. The Therapeutic Relationship12. The Therapeutic EnvironmentUNIT THREE: Mental Health Problems Throughout The Life Cycle13. Problems of Childhood14. Problems of Adolescence15. Problems of Adulthood16. Problems of Late Adulthood17. Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and DementiaUNIT FOUR: Patients With Psychological Problems18. Managing Anxiety19. Illness and Hospitalization20. Loss and Grief21. Depression and Other Mood Disorders22. Physical Problems, Psychological Sources 23. Eating and Sleeping Disorders24. Dissociative DisordersUNIT FIVE: Patients With Psychosocial Problems25. Anger and Aggression26. Outward-Focused Emotions: Violence27. Inward-Focused Emotions: Suicide28. Substance-Related Disorders29. Sexual Disorders30. Personality Disorders31. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses32. Chronic Mental Health Disorders33. Challenges for the FutureAppendix A: Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing PracticeAppendix B: DSM-IV-TR ClassificationAppendix C: Mental Status Assessment at a GlanceAppendix D: A Simple Method to Determine Tardive Dyskinesia Symptoms: AIMS Examination Procedure
