Includes bibliographical references.

Basic concepts in psychiatric nursing -- Mental health -- Mental ill health -- Therapeutic use of self -- Joharis window -- Methods used to increase self-awareness -- Common behavioral signs and symptoms -- Communication -- Nurse patient relationship -- Common problems affecting NPR -- Principles of care in psychiatric settings -- Levels of interventions in psychiatric nursing -- Characteristics of a psychiatric nurse -- Roles of the nurse in psychiatric settings -- Basic concepts on pharmacology -- A. Major tranquilizers/Antipsychotics -- B. Anti-Parkinsonian agents -- C. Minor tranquilizers/Anxiolytics -- D. Antidepressants -- E. Anti-Manic agents -- Electro convulsive therapy -- Common psychotherapeutic interventions -- Remotivation therapy -- Music therapy -- Play therapy -- Group therapy -- Millie therapy -- Family therapy -- Psychoanalysis -- Hypnotherapy --
Humor therapy -- Behavior modification -- Aversion therapy -- Token economy -- Desensitization -- Cognitive therapy -- Dynamics of human behavior -- Basic concepts on the patient -- Personality -- Three divisions of the mind -- Structures of personality -- Theories of personality development -- A. Freud's psychosexual theory -- B. Erikson'S psychosocial theory -- C. Piaget's cognitive theory of development -- Crisis and crisis intervention -- Some conditions requiring crisis intervention -- Rape -- Rape trauma syndrome -- Battered wife syndrome -- Child abuse -- Anxiety -- Defense mechanisms -- Anxiety disorders -- Personality disorders -- Autism -- Mental retardation -- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Eating disorders -- Anorexia -- Bulimia -- Paraphilia -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Suicide -- Delirium -- Dementia -- Alzheimer's disease -- Substance abuse and substance dependence -- Alcoholism -- Delirium tremens -- Korsakoff psychosis -- Wernickes Psychosis -- Grief/grieving -- Death/dying.