Psychiatric nursing / Norman L. Keltner, EdD, RN, CRNP, Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, Debbie Steele, PhD, RN, LMFT, Associate Professor, Christian Counseling, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit I. The basics. Me, meds, milieu -- Historical issues -- Legal issues -- Psychobiologic bases of behavior -- Cultural issues -- Spiritual issues -- Unit II. You: therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. Models for working with psychiatric patients -- Learning to communicate professionally -- Working with an individual patient -- Working with groups of patients -- Working with the family -- Unit III. Medication: psychopharmacology. Introduction to psychotropic drugs -- Antiparkinsonian drugs -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Antidepressant drugs -- Antimanic drugs -- Antianxiety drugs -- Antidementia drugs -- Over-the-counter drugs -- Unit IV. Environment: milieu management. Introduction to milieu management -- Variables affecting the therapeutic environment: violence and suicide -- Therapeutic environment in various treatment settings -- Unit V. Putting it all together: psychopathology. Introduction to psychopathology -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar disorders -- Anxiety-related, obsessive-compulsive, trauma and stressor-related, somatic, and dissociative disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Eating disorders -- Unit VI. Special populations. Survivors of violence and trauma -- Children and adolescents -- Older adults -- Soldiers and veterans -- Appendix: DSM-5 Classification.