Book Highlights
- This book is a must for:
- All nursing paramedical students
- Psychiatric nursing
- This book is specifically written for easy grasping of psychiatry in simple point-wise and understandable language and is exclusively based on examination and practice-oriented pattern.
- Important review questions have been added at the end of each chapter.
- Important points of each chapter are enlisted in boxes:They are either asked in viva voce examination or as MCQs.
- Detailed chapter on historical aspects (Indian/Western), symptomatology and examination have been included.
- An updated section on psychiatric treatments, including recent advances and list of psychotropic drugs, included.
- Epidemiology of various psychiatric disorders, National Mental Health Programme and forensic psychiatry (latest laws) has been added.
- Psychiatric glossary and list of psychological tests have been described in detail.
- Role of nurses in mental health has been described as a separate chapter.
- This concise textbook, based on the new curriculum, is aimed at imparting important theoretical and practical skills in psychiatry
- Popular book for paper-setting in Diploma in Nursing, BSc Nursing and other examinations.