1. Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing
2. Psychotherapeutic Management in the Continuum of Care
3. Models for Working with Psychiatric Patients
4. Legal Issues
5. Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior
UNIT TWO: CONTINUUM OF CARE
6. Continuum of Care
7. Hospital-Based Care
8. Community-Based Care
UNIT THREE: THERAPEUTIC NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
9. Communication
10. Nurse-Patient Relationship
11. Nursing Process
12. Anxiety, Coping, and Crisis
13. Working with the Aggressive Patient
14. Working with Groups of Patients
15. Working with the Family
16. Cultural Competence in Psychiatric Nursing
17. Spirituality NEW
24. Introduction to Milieu Management
25. Variables Affecting the Therapeutic Environment
26. Therapeutic Environment in Different Treatment Settings
UNIT SIX: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
27. Introduction to Psychopathology
28. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
29. Depression
30. Bipolar Disorders NEW
31. Anxiety-Related, Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
32. Cognitive Disorders
33. Personality Disorders
34. Sexual Disorders
35. Substance Related Disorders
36. Dual Diagnosis
37. Eating Disorders
UNIT SEVEN: SPECIAL THERAPIES IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
38. Behavior Therapies
39. Somatic Therapies
40. Alternative and Complementary Therapies NEW
UNIT EIGHT: SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
41. Survivors of Violence and Trauma
42. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
43. Mental Illness in Older Adults
44. Working with Patients with HIV/AIDS
APPENDIXES
A. Diagnostic Criteria for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR)
B. NANDA-Approved Nursing Diagnoses
C. Mini-Mental State Examination
D. Geriatric Depression Scale
E. Simple Method to Determine Tardive Dyskinesia Symptoms: AIMS
Examination Procedure
F. Rating Scale for Extrapyramidal Side Effects
G. Controlled Substance Chart
GLOSSARY
INDEX
STUDY GUIDE
ANSWER KEY TO STUDY GUIDE
"Featuring a clear writing style and a reader-friendly approach this resource focuses on the therapeutic skills
expected of the psychiatric nurse. Using the psychotherapeutic management model as a framework it takes a
practical clinical approach to nursing by integrating clinical realities with the theory taught in nursing
schools emphasizing those duties for which nurses are primarily responsible. This fourth edition features a new
full-color design patient education content and expanded student worksheets with case studies and critical
thinking questions - making it a more effective learning tool."
