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.