Contents: Principles of psychiatric nursing: Roles and functions of psychiatric nurses -- Conceptual models of psychiatric care -- The therapeutic nurse-patient relationship -- The nursing therapeutic process -- Preventive mental health nursing -- Rehabilitative psychiatric nursing -- Anxiety -- Alterations in self-concept -- Disturbances of mood -- Self-destructive behavior -- Disruptions in relatedness -- Problems with the expression of anger -- Impaired cognition -- Substance abuse -- Somatic therapies and psychiatric nursing -- Legal aspects of psychiatric care -- 2. Practice of psychiatric nursing: Psychiatric evaluation -- Evolution of inpatient psychiatric nursing -- The psychiatric nurse's role in community mental health -- Crisis therapy -- Behavior modification -- Human sexuality and nursing practice -- Liaison nursing: a model for nursing practice -- Small groups and their therapeutic forces -- Family therapy -- Child psychiatric nursing -- Adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Nursing intervention in family abuse and violence -- Counselling the victim of rape -- Care of the chronically mentally ill patient -- Gerontological psychiatric nursing -- Individuals and families: caring for the dying -- Thee pragmatics of private practice -- Issues and trends in psychiatric-mental health nursing --