Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

I. Introduction to Psychiatric/Mental Health Concepts
1. Mental Health and Mental Illness
2. Biological Implications
3. Ethical and Legal Issues
4. Psychopharmacology
5. Cultural and Spiritual Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

II. Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Interventions
6. Relationship Development and Therapeutic Communication
7. The Nursing Process in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
8. Milieu Therapy – The Therapeutic Community
9. Intervention in Groups
10. Crisis Intervention (new title – was called Intervening in Crisis)
11. The Recovery Model
12. Suicide Prevention

III. Care of Clients with Psychiatric Disorders
13. Neurocognitive Disorders
14. Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
15. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
16. Depressive Disorders
17. Bipolar and Related Disorders
18. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
19. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
20. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
21. Issues Related to Human Sexuality and Gender Dysphoria
22. Eating Disorders
23. Personality Disorders

IV. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing of Special Populations
24. Children and Adolescents
25. The Aging Individual
26. Survivors of Abuse or Neglect
27. Community Mental Health Nursing
28. The Bereaved Individual
29. Military Families

Appendices
A. Assigning NANDA Nursing Diagnoses to Client Behaviors
B. Mental Status Assessment
C. Glossary
D. Answers to Review Questions
E. Answers to Communication Exercises
F. DSM-5 Classification: Categories and Codes

Bonus Chapters Online
Bonus Chapter 1. Concepts of Personality Development
Bonus Chapter 2. Complementary and Psychosocial Therapies