Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction to psychiatric nursing: Introduction to psychiatric nursing – Psychotherapeutic management in the continuum of care – Models for working with psychiatric patients – Legal issues – Psychobiologic bases of behavior – Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship: Nurse-patient communication – Nurse-patient relationship – Nursing process – Stress, anxiety, coping and crisis – Suicide and other self destructive behaviors – Working with the aggressive patient – Working with groups of patients – Working with the family – Cultural competence in psychiatric nursing – Spirituality – Psychopharmacology: Introduction to psychotropic drugs – Antiparkinsonian drugs – Antipsychotic drugs – Antidepressant drugs – Antimanic drugs – Antianxiety drugs – Antidementia drugs – Milieu management: Introduction to milieu management – Variables affecting the therapeutic environment – Therapeutic environment in various treatment settings – Psychopathology: Introduction to psychopathology – Schizophrenia and other psychoses – Depression – Bipolar disorders – Anxiety-related, somatoform and dissociative disorders – Cognitive disorders – Personality disorders – Sexual disorders – Substance-related disorders – Dual diagnosis – Eating disorders – Special populations and therapies in psychiatric nursing: Behavior and somatic therapies – Nutraceuticals and mental health – Survivors of violence and trauma – Child and adolescent psychiatric nursing – Mental disorders of older adults – War-related psychiatric disorders in soldiers --