Includes index, bibliography and reference.

Contents:Basic concepts in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- The concept of stress adaptation -- Mental health/mental illness: historical and theoretical concepts -- Foundations for psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Theoretical models of personality development -- Concepts of psychobiology -- Ethical and legal issues in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing --Therapeutic approaches in psychiatric nursing care --Relationship development --Therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic groups --Intervention with families --Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community --Crisis intervention --Assertiveness training --Promoting self-esteem --Anger/aggression management --The suicidal client --Behavior therapy --Cognitive therapy --Electroconvulsive therapy --Recovery model -- Nursing care of clients with alterations in psychosocial adaptation --Neurocognitive disorders --Substance-related and addictive disorders --Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders --Depressive disorders --Bipolar and related disorders --Anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and related disorders --Trauma and stressor-related disorders --Somatoform symptom and dissociative disorders --Issues related to human sexuality and gender dysphoria --Eating disorders --Personality disorders --Psychiatric/mental health nursing of special population -- Children and adolescents --The aging individual -- Survivors of abuse or neglect --Community mental health nursing --The bereaved individual --Military families