Mental health care

Title Page
Cover
Copyright
Contents
About the Authors
CHAPTER 1 Mental health care in Australia
	Introduction
	1.1 Definitions
	1.2 Stigma
	1.3 A focus on caring
	1.4 Caring in the health context
	1.5 The prevalence of mental illness in Australia
	1.6 Common mental health issues
CHAPTER 2 Assessment in the mental health context
	Introduction
	2.1 Mental health assessment of adults
	2.2 Approaches to assessment
	2.3 Assessment tools
	2.4 Diagnostic manuals
	2.5 Young people and mental health assessment
	2.6 Communicating with young people
CHAPTER 3 The legal and ethical context of mental health care
	Introduction
	3.1 The legal and ethical context
	3.2 Challenges for health professionals
	3.3 Capacity and competence
	3.4 Advance care agreements
	3.5 Duty of care
	3.6 State and territory mental health legislation
	3.7 Forensic mental health care
CHAPTER 4 Culturally appropriate mental health care
	Introduction
	4.1 The pervasive nature of culture and subculture
	4.2 Cultural constructions of mental illness
	4.3 Mental health and Indigenous cultures
	4.4 Mental health and rural and remote cultures
	4.5 Mental health and multiculturalism
	4.6 Towards providing culturally appropriate mental health care
	4.7 Family and social supports
CHAPTER 5 Common reactions to stressful situations
	Introduction
	5.1 Stress reactions
	5.2 Physical, emotional and behavioural reactions
	5.3 Factors that influence stress reactions
	5.4 Priorities when supporting people through stressful situations
	5.5 Providing information
	5.6 Self-care
CHAPTER 6 People displaying challenging behaviours
	Introduction
	6.1 The nature of challenging behaviours
	6.2 Reasonable and unreasonable behaviour
	6.3 Causes and triggers of challenging behaviour
	6.4 Challenging behaviours exhibited by health professionals
	6.5 Addressing challenging behaviours
	6.6 Risk assessment
CHAPTER 7 Depression, anxiety and perinatal mental health
	Introduction
	7.1 Depression
	7.2 Approaches to the care of depression
	7.3 Perinatal mental health issues
	7.4 Caring for children, adolescents and young people with depression or psychosis
	7.5 Anxiety
CHAPTER 8 Caring for a person who has self‐harmed
	Introduction
	8.1 Definitions
	8.2 Incidence of self‐harming
	8.3 ‘Causes’ of self‐harming behaviour
	8.4 Attitudes towards self‐harm
	8.5 National Suicide Prevention Strategy
	8.6 Assessment of risk
	8.7 Caring for the person who has self‐harmed
CHAPTER 9 Caring for a person with a serious mental illness
	Introduction
	9.1 Definitions
	9.2 Comorbidities in people with serious mental illness
	9.3 Carers
	9.4 Treatments for serious mental illness
	9.5 Recovery
CHAPTER 10 Substance use disorders
	Introduction
	10.1 Substance use and substance misuse
	10.2 Attitudes of health professionals
	10.3 Health promotion and disease prevention
	10.4 Categories of substances
	10.5 Substance use disorders
	10.6 Commonly misused substances
	10.7 Assessment of substance use
	10.8 Caring for family members
	10.9 Motivation for behaviour change
	10.10 The stress–vulnerability model
CHAPTER 11 Caring for an older person with a mental illness
	Introduction
	11.1 Caring for older people
	11.2 The impact of ageism
	11.3 Assessing the older person
	11.4 Dementia
	11.5 Depression in older people
	11.6 Delirium
CHAPTER 12 Mental health service delivery
	Introduction
	12.1 Approaches to mental health service delivery in Australia
	12.2 Primary health care services
	12.3 Secondary health care services
	12.4 Tertiary health care services
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