Product Review

• Full-color illustrations, tables, bulleted lists, and a reader-friendly writing style to make concepts easy to understand


• Coverage of mental health conditions across the lifespan


• Care plans with detailed descriptions of specific interventions and expected outcomes


• Content on specific nursing interventions and basic psychiatric nursing skills


• Coverage of psychopharmacology, including must-know side effects


• Case studies with critical-thinking questions to emphasize clinical reasoning skills


• Crucial information on palliative and restorative care for long-term care settings


• Discussions on alternative treatment modalities to facilitate communications with people of different religious and cultural backgrounds as well as descriptions of religious and cultural beliefs and their impact on mental health and treatment