Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: History of psychiatric mental nursing -- Concepts of psychiatric care:therapeutic models -- Cultural considerations -- Foundations of psychiatric nursing -- Legal and ethical issues -- Therapeutic communication -- Stress, coping and adaptation -- Crisis intervention and management -- The client with a mood disorder (Depression)-- The client experiencing anxiety -- The client with stress-related illness -- The client with altered sensory perception -- clients with delirium, dementia, amnestic disorders and other cognitive disorders -- The client with a personality disorder -- The client with a dissociative disorder --