Patterns of mental health care--Current and evolving patterns of mental health care--the roles of the nurse in dirrerent mental health settings--Inpatient hospitalization:the mental health treatment team and the therapeutic milieu--Community-based treatment settings for mental disorders--Home care setting:client and family issues--Professional,legal,and ethical issues in mental health nursing--Foundations of the therapeutic relationahip--Communicating in the therapeutic relationship--Theories and stages of personality development--Influences of family and social environment on the individual--Foundations of decision making in the mental health setting--Nursing process in the mental health setting--Human emotions--Stress:effective coping and adaptation--Stress:ineffective coping and defense mechanisms--The mental status exam--Nursing the client with a mental disorder--the client with a mood disorder--the client with an anxiety disorder--the client with delirium,dementia,alzheimet's,and other cognitive disorders--The client with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders--The client who is contemplating suicide--The client with a substance-related mental disorder--The client dwith a personality disorder--The client with an eating disorder--the infant,child,or adolescent with a developmental disorder--Intervention and treatment of mental disorders--Crisis intervention--Nursing care of the older adult with a mental disorder--Milieu therapy and behavior mokification--Group therapy--Psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive treatment of mental disorders--Complementary health approaches:therapies and philosophy in mental health treatment settings

1. Mental disorders -- Nurses' instruction
2. Mental Health -- Nurses' instruction
3. Psychiatric Nursing