UNIT 1: CURRENT THEORIES AND PRACTICE: Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing -- Neurobiologic theories and psychopharmacology -- Psychosocial theories and therapy -- Treatment settings and therapeutic programs -- UNIT 2: BUILDING THE NURSE-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP: Therapeutic relationships -- Therapeutic communications - - Client's response to illness -- Assessment -- UNIT 3: CURRENT SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CONCERNS: Legal and ethical issues -- Anger, hostility, and aggression -- Abuse and violence -- Grief and loss -- UNIT 4: NURSING PRACTICE FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: Anxiety and stress-related illness -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Personality disorders -- Substance abuse -- Eating disorders -- Somatoform disorders -- Child and adolescent disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Answers to chapter study guides -- Appendix A: DSM-TR Classification -- Appendix B: NANDA- approved nursing diagnoses -- Appendix C: Drug classification nder the Controlled Substances Act -- Appendix D: Canadian standards of psychiatric and mental health nursing practices -- Appendix E: Canadian drug trade names -- Appendix F: Mexican drug trade names -- Appendix G: Sleep disorders -- Appendix H: Sexual and gender identity disorders -- Glossary of key terms

1. Psychiatric nursing
2. Mental Disorders -- nursing