unit I. 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 II. Continuum of care -- 6. Continuum of care -- 7. Hospital-based care -- 8. Community-based care -- unit III. 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 -- unit IV. Psychopharmacology -- 18. Introduction to psychotropic drugs -- 19. Antiparkinson drugs -- 20. Antipsychotic drugs -- 21. Antidepressant drugs -- 22. Antimanic drugs -- 23. Antianxiety drugs -- unit V. Milieu management -- 24. Introduction to milieu management -- 25. Variables affecting the therapeutic environment -- 26. Therapeutic environment in different treatment settings -- unit VI. Psychopathology -- 27. Introduction to psychopathology -- 28. Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- 29. Depression -- 30. Bipolar disorders -- 31. Anxiety-related somatoform and dissociative orders -- 32. Cognitive disorders -- 33. Personality disorders -- 34. Sexual disorders -- 35. Substance-related disorders -- 36. Dual diagnosis -- 37. Eating disorders -- unit VII. Special therapies in psychiatric nursing -- 38. Behavior therapies -- 39. Somatic therapies -- 40. Alternative and complementary therapies -- unit VIII. Special populations in psychiatric nursing -- 41. Survivors of violence and trauma -- 42. Child and adolescent psychiatric nursing -- 43. Mental disorders in older adults -- 44. Working with patients with HIV infection -- Appendixes -- A. Diagnostic criteria for mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR) -- B. NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses -- C. Geriatric depression scale -- D. Simple method to determine tardive Dyskinesia symptoms : AIMS examination procedure -- E. Rating scale for extrapyramidal side effects -- F. Controlled substances : uses and effects -- Glossary.
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