Unit I. Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing 1. Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing 2. Psychotherapeutic Management in the Continuum of Care 3. Continuum of Care 4. Models for Working with Psychiatric Patients 5. Legal Issues 6. Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior Unit II.

Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship 7. Nurse-Patient Communication 8. Nurse-Patient Relationship 9. Nursing Process 10. Anxiety, Coping, and Crisis 11. Working with the Aggressive Patient 12. Working with Groups of Patients 13. Working with the Family 14.

Cultural Competence in Psychiatric Nursing 15. Spirituality Unit III. Psychopharmacology 16. Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs 17. Antiparkinson Drugs 18. Antipsychotic Drugs 19. Antidepressant Drugs 20. Antimanic Drugs 21.

Antianxiety Drugs 22. Antidementia Drugs Unit IV. Milieu Management 23. Introduction to Milieu Management 24. Variables Affecting the Therapeutic Environment 25. Therapeutic Environment in Different Treatment Settings 26. Special Environments Unit V. Psychopathology 27.

Introduction to Psychopathology 28. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses 29. Depression 30. Bipolar Disorders 31. Anxiety-Related Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders 32. Cognitive Disorders 33. Personality Disorders 34. Sexual Disorders 35.

Substance-Related Disorders 36. Dual Diagnosis 37. Eating Disorders Unit VI. Special Populations & Therapies in Psychiatric Nursing 38. Behavior Therapies 39. Somatic Therapies 40. Alternative and Complementary Therapies 41. Survivors of Violence and Trauma 42.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 43. Mental Disorders in Older Adults APPENDICES Appendix A Diagnostic Criteria for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) Appendix B North American Nursing Diagnosis Association-Approved Nursing Diagnoses, 2005-2006 Glossary Index.