Includes bibliographical references and index.

Through the door: your first day in psychiatric nursing -- Psychiatric nursing: evolution of a specialty -- Theory as basis for practice -- Neuroscience as a basis for practice -- Diagnostic systems for psychiatric nursing -- Tools for psychiatric mental health nursing: communication, nursing process, and the nurse-client relationship -- Cultural and ethnic considerations -- Epidemiology of mental health and illness -- Ethical and legal bases for care -- Self-care for the nurse -- The client undergoing crisis -- The client experiencing anxiety -- The client experiencing schizophrenia -- The client experiencing depression -- The client experiencing mania -- The client who is suicidal -- The client who abuses chemical substances -- The client with a personality disorder -- The client experiencing a somatoform, factitious, or dissociative disorder -- The client with disorders of self-regulation: sleep disorders, eating disorders, sexual disorders -- The physically ill client experiencing emotional distress -- Forgotten populations: the homeless and the incarcerated -- The child -- The adolescent -- The elderly -- Survivors of violence or abuse -- Pharmacology in psychiatric care -- Individual psychotherapy -- Family therapy -- Group therapy -- Community mental health nursing -- Complementary and somatic therapies -- Friday night at the movies -- How to use the internet to research psychiatric mental health nursing.