Includes bibliographical references and index

Unit one. Introduction to psychiatric/mental health concepts. Mental health and mental illness -- Concepts of personality development -- Biological implications -- Ethical and legal issues -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing. Unit two. Psychiatric/mental health nursing interventions. Relationship development and therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing - - Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community -- Intervention in groups -- Intervening in crises -- complementary and psychosocial therapies. Unit three. Care of clients with psychiatric disorders. Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Mood disorders: depression -- Mood disorders: bipolar disorder -- Anxiety disorders -- Somatoform and dissociative disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders. Unit four. Psychiatric mental health nursing of special populations. Children and adolescents -- Victims of abuse or neglect -- The aging individual -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual. Appendix A: DSM-IV-TR classification: Axes I and II categories and codes -- Appendix B: NANDA nursing diagnoses: taxonomy II -- Appendix C: Assigning nursing diagnoses to client behaviors -- Appendix D: Mental status assessment -- Appendix E: Glossary -- Appendix F: Answers to review questions