Includes bibliographical references.

Social change and mental health / Mary Ann Boyd -- Cultural issues related to mental health care / Mary Ann Boyd -- Mental health and mental illness / Mary Ann Boyd -- Patient rights and legal issues / Mary Ann Boyd -- Mental health care in the community / Denise M. Gibson and Robert B. Noud -- Contemporary psychiatric nursing practice -- Theoretic basis of psychiatric nursing / Mary Ann Boyd -- The biologic foundations of psychiatric nursing / Susan McCabe -- Psychopharmacology and other biologic treatments / Susan McCabe -- Communication and the therapeutic relationship / Cheryl Forchuk and Mary Ann Boyd -- The assessment process / Mary Ann Boyd -- Diagnosis and outcomes development / Doris Bell and Lorraine D. Williams --

Psychiatric-mental health nursing interventions / Mary Ann Boyd -- Interventions with groups / Mary Ann Boyd -- Family assessment and interventions / Mary Ann Boyd -- Schizophrenia / Andrea C. Bostrom and Mary Ann Boyd -- Schizoaffective, delusional, and other psychotic disorders / Nan Roberts and Roberta Stock -- Mood disorders / Sandra J. Wood, revised from a chapter by Katharine P. Bailey -- Anxiety disorders -- Personality and impulse-control disorders / Barbara J. Limandri and Mary Ann Boyd -- Somatoform and related disorders / Mary Ann Boyd -- Eating disorders / Jane H. White -- Substance use disorders / Barbara G. Faltz and Richard V. Wing --

Psychiatric disorders diagnosed in childhood and adolescence / Lawrence Scahill, Vanya Hamrin, and Catherine Gray Deering -- Mental health assessment of the elderly / Mary Ann Boyd and Mickey Stanley -- Mental health promotion with the elderly / Mary Ann Boyd -- Delirium, dementias, and related disorders / Mary Ann Boyd ... [et al.] -- Care of people who are homeless and mentally ill / Ruth Beckmann Murray and Marjorie Baier -- Issues in dual disorders / Barbara G. Faltz and Sandra C. Sellin --

Mental health assessment of children and adolescents / Vanya Hamrin, Catherine Gray Deering, and Lawrence Scahill -- Mental health promotion with children and adolescents / Catherine Gray Deering and Lawrence Scahill -- Psychosocial aspects of medically compromised persons / Gail L. Kongable -- Stress, crisis, and disaster management / Lorraine D. Williams and Mary Ann Boyd -- Management of aggression and violence / Sandy Harper-Jaques and Marlene Reimer -- Caring for abused persons / Mary R. Boyd -- Case finding and care in suicide: children, adolescents, and adults / Emily J. Hauenstein.

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