Mereness' Essentials of psychiatric nursing / Cecelia Monat Taylor

Includes index.

The context of psychiatric nursing practice -- The mental health delivery system and heatlh care team -- Psychiatric nursing and the law -- Current issues affecting the future of psychiatric nursing -- The tools of the psychiatric nursing -- Self -- awareness -- principles of psychiatric nursing -- Effective communication -- Nurse client interactions -- The therapeutic environment -- The nursing process -- Theoretical bases for understanding mental health and mental illness -- General systems theory and stress and adaptation:one conceptual framework -- Psychosocial theories of personality development -- Anxiety:one response to stress -- Biological factors influencing mental health and mental illness -- Cultural factors influencing mental health and mental illness -- The consumers of psychiatric nursing -- Individuals with thought disorders -- Individuals with mood disorders -- Individuals with anxiety disorders -- Individuals with psychophysiological disorders -- Individuals with substance abuse and dependence -- Individuals with personality disorders -- Populations at risk;the elderly -- Populations at risk: children and adolescents -- Populations at risk:the physically ill -- Multidisciplinary psychiatric interventions -- Crisis theory and intervention -- Group theory and intervention -- Family theory and intervention --