This comprehensive textbook of psychiatric-mental health nursing uses adaptation and growth as its focus within a nursing process framework, and includes a nursing process unit detailing each of the five steps of the nursing process. Nursing interventions are illustrated in clinical vignettes, therapeutic dialogues, and nursing care plans. New chapters are included on the biological bases for psychiatric care, spiritual aspects of care, homelessness, co-dependency, and AIDS. This volume includes the 1992 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses and descriptions of the proposed changes in forthcoming DSM-IV.