Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Overview of psychiatric-mental health nursing: Introduction to psychiatric-mental health nursing -- Psychiatric-mental health nursing: practice issues -- The nurse-client relationship and therapeutic communication -- The psychiatric nursing assessment -- Neurobiologic considerations in psychiatric care -- Psychopharmacology -- Crises, psychiatric emergencies, and disasters -- Legal and ethical considerations -- Group theory and practice -- Holistic nursing and complementary modalities -- Family and intimate partner violence -- Mental health disorders and conditions: Disorders diagnosed in infancy, childhood or adolescence -- Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders -- Mental disorders due to general medical conditions -- Substance-related disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Anxiety and dissociative disorders -- Somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, and malingering -- Sexual disorders and gender identity disorder -- Eating disorders -- Sleep disorders -- Impulse-control disorders -- Personality disorders -- Nursing management of special populations: Clients with chronic mental illness -- Clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities -- Children and adolescents -- The aging client.