Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit I: Principles of psychiatric nursing care -- Chapter 1: Roles and functions of psychiatric-mental health nurses: competent caring / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 2: Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 3: The Stuart stress adaptation model of psychiatric nursing care / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 4: Evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 5: Bilogical context of psychiatric nursing care / Donald L. Taylor -- Chapter 6: Psychological context of psychiatric nursing care / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 7: Social, cultural, and spiritual context of psychiatric nursing care / Linda D. Oakley -- Chapter 8: Legal and ethical context of psychiatric nursing care / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 9: Policy and advocacy in mental health care / Mona Shattell and Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 10: Families as resources, caregivers, and collaborators / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 11: Implementing the nursing process: standards of practice and professional performance / Gail W. Stuart --

Unit II: Continuum of care -- Chapter 12: Prevention and mental health promotion / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 13: Crisis and disaster intervention / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 14: Recovery support / Sandra J. Sundeen --

Unit III: Applying principles in nursing practice -- Chapter 15: Anxiety responses and anxiety disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 16: Psychophysiological responses and somatoform and sleep disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 17: Self-concept responses and dissociative disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 18: Emotional responses and mood disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 19: Self-protective responses and suicidal behavior / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 20: Neurobiological reponses and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders / Mary D. Moller -- Chapter 21: Social responses and personality disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 22: Cognitive responses and organic mental disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 23: Chemically mediated responses and substance-related disorders / Donald L. Taylor and Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 24: Eating regulation responses and eating disorders / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 25: Sexual responses and sexual disorders / Susan G. Poorman --

Unit IV: Treatment modalities -- Chapter 26: Psychopharmacology / Donald L. Taylor -- Chapter 27: Behavior change and cognitive interventions / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 28: Preventing and managing aggressive behavior / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 29: Somatic therapies / Carol M. Burns -- Chapter 30: Complementary and alternative therapies / Therese K. Killeen -- Chapter 31: Therapeutic groups / Gail W. Stuart -- Chapter 32: Family interventions / Janet A. York --

Unit V: Treatment settings -- Chapter 33: Hospital-based psychiatric nursing care / Elizabeth G. Maree -- Chapter 34: Community-based psychiatric nursing care / Gail W. Stuart --

Unit VI: Special populations in psychiatry -- Chapter 35: Child psychiatric nursing / Sally Raphel -- Chapter 36: Adolescent psychiatric nursing / Audrey Redston-Iselin -- Chapter 37: Geropsychiatric nursing / Georgia L. Stevens -- Chapter 38: Care of survivors of abuse and violence / Nancy Fishwick, Barbara Parker, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell -- Chapter 39: The military and their families / Stephen T. Lesieur, James L. Harris, and Mary Fraggos -- Chapter 40: Psychological care of patients with a life-threatening illness / Gail W. Stuart and Penelope Chase.

Offering coverage of important nursing and medical concepts, this text examines the stress-adaptation framework - a biospychosocial approach that emphasises the mental health continuum and curent coverage of psychobiology. This leads to discussion of psychopharmacology, which reflects the biological bent in modern psychiatry. In this sixth edition, the clinical chapters on depression, personality disorders, schizophrenia and substance abuse have been revised to include medical diagnostic categories. The importance of working with the family is emphasized in a new chapter A new chapter covering the special issues involved in providing care in the home is also included, and should ill help prepare students for practice in this rapidly growing community setting. The book also includes a feature at the end of each chapter called "Your Internet Connection" and appendix listing the most helpful Web sites on the Internet.