Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: History of psychiatric nursing -- Concepts of psychiatric care:therapeutic models -- Interfacing biological-behavioral concepts into psychiatric nursing practice -- Foundations of psychiatric nursing -- The nursing process -- Therapeutic communication -- Cultural and ethnic considerations -- Legal and considerations -- The client with a depressive disorder -- The Client with bipolar disorder -- The client with an anxiety disorders -- The client with a somatization disorder -- The client with a stress-related disorder -- The client with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- The client with a personality disorder -- The client with delirium,dementia,amnestic,and other cognitive disorder -- The client with attention-deficit disorder -- The client with dissociative disorder -- The client risk of suicidal and self-destructive behaviors -- The client with an eating disorder -- The client with a sleep disorder -- The client with a sexual disorder -- The client who survives violence -- Individual psychotherapy -- Group therapy -- Familial systems and family therapy -- Psychopharmacologic therapy -- Electroconvulsive and complementary therapies -- Crises intervention management: the role of adaption -- Milieu therapy/hospital-based care -- Home-and community-based -- Psychosocial care in medical-surgical settings -- Psychiatric consultation-liason nursing -- Psychiatric nursing research -- The future of psychiatric nursing