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Mental Health and Therapeutic Communication

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Contents

  1. 01Mental Health and Therapeutic Communication
  2. 02What this book owns, what it borrows, and where everything else lives
  3. 03Stay with the feeling: the pattern behind every correct response
  4. 04Underneath the words: defense mechanisms and the technique that meets each one
  5. 05Delirium versus major neurocognitive disorder: one of these is an emergency
  6. 06Serotonin syndrome versus neuroleptic malignant syndrome: clonus or lead pipe
  7. 07Rapid review I: mood, anxiety, trauma, and eating, with the cue and the first action
  8. 08Rapid review II: psychosis, personality, and substance, with the drug that goes with each
  9. 09Suicide risk: asking the question, sizing the risk, setting the precaution
  10. 10Exhibit: the psychiatric admission chart, status, orders, and the medication record
  11. 11Unfolding case: escalation in the dayroom, from first cue to seclusion decision
  12. 12Question set A: eight items on response choice and disorder recognition
  13. 13Rationales A: naming the blocker in every distractor
  14. 14Question set B: next-generation items on psychotropic emergencies, with condensed rationales
  15. 15Master recap: the technique bank, the blocker bank, and the ten-minute drill