Introduction to psychosocial nursing for general patient care -- Psychosocial response to illness -- Psychosocial skills -- Nurses' responses to difficult patient behaviors -- Crisis intervention -- Cultural considerations: implications for psychosocial nursing care -- Problems with anxiety -- Problems with anger -- Problems with affect and mood -- Problems with confusion -- Problems with psychotic thought processes -- Problems relating to others -- Problems with substance abuse -- Problems with sexual dysfunction -- Problems with pain -- Problems with nutrition -- Problems within the family -- Problems with spiritual distress -- Nursing management of special populations -- Disaster planning and response-psychosocial impact -- Psychopharmacology: database for patient and family education on psychiatric medications