Psychiatric Nursing Skills

Part 1 Core skills and strategies: personal skills; counselling skills; behavioural skills; supervision. Part 2 Application of skills: working with anxious people; working with depressed people; working with people experiencing delusions; working with people experiencing hallucinations; working with overactive people; working with clients experiencing obsessions and compulsions; working with people who orchestrate; working with people experiencing dependency; working with people expressing aggression in residential settings; working with children; working with elderly confused people; working with people who are dying; working with people experiencing bereavement; working with institutionalized clients. Part 3 Extending knowledge and skills: community skills; human sexuality; a model for working with sexual abuse; creative approaches; research; working with groups; management principles and skills; appendix - the concept of quality.