Table of Contents

PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING CARE * Competent Caring: Influences on the Role of the Mental Health Nurse * Models and Theories * The Nurse-Patient Relationship * User Issues and Critical Theories * Psychological Assessment and Measurement for Nurses * Sociocultural Context of Mental Health Nursing Care * The Biological Context of Mental Health Nursing * The Legal and Ethical Context of Mental Health Nursing * Quality and Standards of Nursing Practice * Supervision of Practice* PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISING PATIENT CARE * Community Care * Health Promotion: Its Application to Mental Health * Crisis Theory and Intervention * In-Patient Nursing Care * Liaison Mental Health Nursing * Nursing Interventions with Long-term Clients * APPLYING PRINCIPLES IN NURSING PRACTICE * Understanding Suicidal Behaviour * Nursing Interventions with Acutely Ill Clients * The Management of Violence * Drug and Alcohol Nursing * Concepts and Treatment of Eating Disorders * Key Issues in Sexual Health * Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Nursing * Elderly Care * Care of the Survivor * Forensic Psychiatric Nursing * Psychopharmacology * Complementary Therapies and Mental Health Nursing * Behavioural Psychotherapy * Approaches to Therapeutic Groups * A Family Approach to Nursing Care of Schizophrenia * Looking Forward