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This well-respected textbook presents cutting-edge principles of psychiatric nursing and provides you with new features and tools – including chapter study notes and audio chapter summaries – to help you learn the important content you need to know. The 9th edition presents current guidelines for the practice of psychiatric nursing, with the latest clinical research and appropriate diagnoses, updated and expanded coverage of primary care, and extensively revised and updated psychiatric drug information.

• An easy-to-follow writing style makes it easy to understand both simple and complex topics.
• A well-rounded, collaborative approach provides coverage of all major psychiatric disorders from nursing and medical perspectives.
• The Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of health and wellness provides a consistent nursing-oriented framework, with clear explanations of biological, psychological, sociocultural, environmental, and legal-ethical components.
• An evidence-based practice approach bridges the gap between clinical research and everyday practice.
• Learning from a Clinical Case boxes begin disorders chapters with thought-provoking questions and end chapters with answers and feedback.
• Summarizing the Evidence boxes in the disorders chapters examine the research and findings that support psychiatric nursing care.
• A family focus and discussions of outpatient care reflect current trends in psychiatric nursing.
• A Patient Speaks and A Family Speaks boxes present short vignettes with the patient’s and family’s perspectives of the caregiving process.
• Competent Caring: A Clinical Exemplar of a Psychiatric Nurse boxes feature the experiences and personal insights of practicing psychiatric nurses.
• Medical and Nursing Diagnoses boxes and Detailed Diagnoses tables emphasize the interdisciplinary approach to patient care by presenting NANDA diagnoses relevant to specific disorders and describing the essential features of the related DSM-IV-TR diagnoses.
• Nursing Treatment Plan Summary tables present care plans including patient goals with nursing interventions and rationales.
• Patient Education Plan and Family Education Plan tables include key information that you need to share with the patient and his or her family to facilitate shorter hospital stays and more outpatient care.
• Therapeutic Dialogue boxes offer examples of nurse-patient interactions.
• Clinical examples include selected nursing diagnoses.
• Focus Points provide a comprehensive, point-by-point review of the important information in each chapter.

• The Military and Their Families chapter addresses the issues and concerns surrounding the mental health needs of active, veteran, and National Guard personnel.
• Updated coverage includes the latest on health care reform, prevention and mental health promotion, recovery and self determination, prescription abuse, and obesity issues related to mental health care.
• Case studies in clinical chapters include scenarios related to chapter content and provide opportunities to develop clinical reasoning skills.
• Summary of Evidence boxes help you understand the latest clinical research and apply it to practice.
• Clinical Reasoning boxes provide opportunities to make a decision based on a particular clinical situation. 
• Quality & Safety boxes discuss QSEN competencies or other quality and safety issues.
• Icons and references identify additional resources on the Evolve companion website and in the Pageburst digital version of the text.

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.