Table of Contents

UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHIATRIC NURSING 1. Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing 2. Psychotherapeutic Management in the Continuum of Care 3. Models for Working with Psychiatric Patients 4. Legal Issues 5. Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior UNIT TWO: CONTINUUM OF CARE 6. Continuum of Care 7. Hospital-Based Care 8. Community-Based Care UNIT THREE: THERAPEUTIC NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP 9. Communication 10. Nurse-Patient Relationship 11. Nursing Process 12. Anxiety, Coping, and Crisis 13. Working with the Aggressive Patient 14. Working with Groups of Patients 15. Working with the Family 16. Cultural Competence in Psychiatric Nursing 17. Spirituality NEW UNIT FOUR: PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 18. Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs 19. Antiparkinson Drugs 20. Antipsychotic Drugs 21. Antidepressant Drugs 22. Antimanic Drugs 23. Antianxiety Drugs UNIT FIVE: MILIEU MANAGEMENT 24. Introduction to Milieu Management 25. Variables Affecting the Therapeutic Environment 26. Therapeutic Environment in Different Treatment Settings UNIT SIX: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 27. Introduction to Psychopathology 28. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses 29. Depression 30. Bipolar Disorders NEW 31. Anxiety-Related, Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders 32. Cognitive Disorders 33. Personality Disorders 34. Sexual Disorders 35. Substance Related Disorders 36. Dual Diagnosis 37. Eating Disorders UNIT SEVEN: SPECIAL THERAPIES IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING 38. Behavior Therapies 39. Somatic Therapies 40. Alternative and Complementary Therapies NEW UNIT EIGHT: SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING 41. Survivors of Violence and Trauma 42. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 43. Mental Illness in Older Adults 44. Working with Patients with HIV/AIDS APPENDIXES A. Diagnostic Criteria for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) B. NANDA-Approved Nursing Diagnoses C. Mini-Mental State Examination D. Geriatric Depression Scale E. Simple Method to Determine Tardive Dyskinesia Symptoms: AIMS Examination Procedure F. Rating Scale for Extrapyramidal Side Effects G. Controlled Substance Chart GLOSSARY INDEX STUDY GUIDE ANSWER KEY TO STUDY GUIDE