Essentials of psychiatric nursing / Mary Ann Boyd and Rebecca Luebbert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mental health and mental disorders -- Cultural and spiritual issues related to mental health care -- Patient rights and legal issues -- Ethics, standards, and nursing frameworks -- Theoretical basis of psychiatric nursing -- Biologic foundations of psychiatric nursing -- Recovery framework for psychiatric-mental health nursing -- Therapeutic communication -- The nurse-patient relationship -- The psychiatric-mental health nursing process -- Psychopharmacology, dietary supplements, and biologic interventions -- Group interventions -- Stress and mental health -- Management of anger, aggression, and violence -- Crisis, loss, grief response, bereavement, and disaster management -- Suicide prevention -- Mental health care for survivors of violence -- Anxiety disorders -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders -- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Personality and impulse-control disorders -- Addiction and substance-related disorders -- Eating disorders -- Somatic symptom and related disorders -- Sleep-wake disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Mental health disorders of childhood and adolescence -- Mental health disorders of older adults.

"Mental health crises are increasingly affecting individuals, families and communities. Opioid abuse is now of epidemic proportions. Suicide is touching families in small towns and large communities"-- Provided by publisher.