Contents:1. Introduction to psychiatric nursing -- Psychotherapeutic management in the continuum of care -- Models for working with psychiatric patients -- Legal issues -- Psychobiologic bases of behavior -- 2. Continuum of care: Continuum of care -- Hospital-based care -- Community-based care -- 3. Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship: Communication -- Nurse-patient relationship -- Nursing process -- Anxiety, coping and crisis -- Working with the aggressive patient -- Working with groups of patients -- Working with the family -- Cultural competence in psychiatric nursing -- Spirituality -- 4. Psychopharmacology: Antiparkinson drugs -- Antipsychotic drugs --- Antidepressant drugs -- Antimanic drugs -- Antianxiety drugs -- 5. Milieu management: Introduction to milieu management -- Variables affecting the therapeutic environment -- Therapeutic environment in different treatment settings -- 6. Psychopathology: Introduction to psychopathology -- Depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Anxiety-related somatoform and dissociative disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Dual diagnosis -- Eating disorders -- 7. Special therapies in psychiatric nursing -- Behavior therapies -- Somatic therapies -- Alternative and complementary therapies -- 8. Special populations in psychiatric nursing: Survivors of violence and trauma -- Child and adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Mental disorders in older adults -- Working with patients with HIV infection --