Contents include subject overview, conceptual models of psychiatric care, treatment modalities and roles of the psychiatric nurse, stress and psychophysiologic disorders, dying and grieving, alterations in self-concept, anxiety and related behavioral disorders, mood disorders, suicide, schizophrenic disorders, personality disorders and maladaptive social responses, psychoactive substance abuse, disorders associated with anger and violence, cognitive impairment disorders, childhood and adolescent disorders, appendices, references, and index.
