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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Psychiatric and mental health nursing.
Includes index. Tertiary
students. ISBN 0 7295
3729 3.
1. Psychiatric nursing - Australia - Textbooks. 2.
Psychiatric nursing - New Zealand - Textbooks. I. Elder,
Ruth. II. Evans, Katie. III. Nizette, Debra.
Publisher: Vaughn Curtis Publishing editor:
Meg O'Hanlon Developmental editor:
Rhiain Hull Edited and project managed by
Kay Waters Cover and text design by Wing
Ping Tong Typeset by Sun Photoset Pty Ltd
Printed in Australia by Southwood Press
Contents
Preface VII PART
3 Understanding Mental Illness
Contributors viii
11 Intellectual Disabilities 174
Reviewers x Charles Harmon, Philip Petrie, Norma Cloonan and
Irvin Savage
Acknowledgements xi
12 Disorders of Childhood and
Adolescence 192
PART Mike Groome, Kristin Henderson and Jem Masters
1 Preparing for Psychiatric
13 Disorders of Old Age 205
Mental Health Nursing Wendy Moyle
1 The Effective Nurse 2 14 Schizophrenic Disorders 218
Debra Jackson and Louise O'Brien Murray Bardwell and Ri