Includes bibliographical references and index.

Roles and functions of psychiatric-mental health nurses: competent caring -- Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship -- The Stuart stress adaptation model of psychiatric nursing care -- Evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice -- Biological context of psychiatric nursing care -- Psychological context of psychiatric nursing care -- Social, cultural, and spiritual context of psychiatric nursing care -- Environmental context of psychiatric nursing care -- Legal and ethical context of psychiatric nursing care -- Families as resources, caregivers, and collaborators -- Implementing the nursing process: standards of practice and professional performance -- Prevention and mental health promotion -- Crisis intervention -- Recovery and psychiatric rehabilitation -- Anxiety responces and anxiety disorders -- Psychophysiological responces and somatoform and sleep disorders -- Self-concept responses and dissociative disorders -- Emotional responses and mood disorders -- Self-protective responses and suicidal behavior -- Neurobiological responses and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders -- Social responses and personality disorders -- Cognitive responses and organic mental disorders -- Chemically mediated responses and substance-related disorders -- Eating regulation responses and eating disorders -- Sexual responses and sexual disorders -- Psychopharmacology -- Somatic therapies -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Cognitive and behavior change interventions -- Preventing and managing aggressive behavior -- Therapeutic groups -- Family interventions -- Hospital-based psychiatric nursing care -- Community-based psychiatric nursing care -- Child psychiatric nursing -- Adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Geropsychiatric nursing -- Care of survivors of abuse and violence -- Psychological care of patients with a life-threating illness.

All age.