Includes index and appendix.

Contents: Unit 1: Principles of psychiatric nursing care: Roles and functions of psychiatric-mental health nurses: competent caring --Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship -- The stuart stress adaptation model of psychiatric nursing care -- Evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice -- Biological context of psychiatric nursing care -- Psychological context of psychiatric nursing care -- Social,cultural, and spiritual context of psychiatric nursing care -- Legal and ethical context of psychiatric nursing care -- Policy and advocacy in mental health care -- Families as resources, caregivers, and collaborators -- Implementing the nursing process: standards of practice and professional performance -- Unit 2: Continuum of care: Prevention and mental health promotion -- Crises and disaster intervention -- Recovery support -- Unit 3: Applying principle in nursing practice: Anxiety responses and anxiety disorders -- Psychophysiological responses and somatoform and sleep disorder -- Self-concept responses and dissociative disorder -- Emotional responses and mood disorders -- Self-protective responses and suicidal behavior -- Neurobiological responses and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders -- Social responses and personality disorders -- Cognitive responses and organic mental disorders -- Chemically mediated responses and substance-related disorders -- Eating regulation responses and eating disorders -- Sexual responses and sexual disorders -- Unit 4: Treatment modalities: Psychopharmacology -- Behavior change and cognitive intervention -- Preventing and managing aggressive behavior -- Somatic therapies -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Therapeutic groups -- Family intervention -- Unit 5: Treatment settings: Hospital-based psychiatric nursing care -- Community-based psychiatric nursing care -- Unit 6: Special populations in psychiatry: Child psychiatric nursing -- Adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Geropsychiatric nursing -- Care of survivors of abuse and violence -- The military and their families -- Psychological care of patients with a life-threatening illness.