a) Concept of mental health and mental illness
b) Misconceptions related to mental illness
c) Principles of Mental Health nursing
d) Definition of terms used in psychiatry
e) Review of defense mechanisms
f) Mental Health Team

a) History of Psychiatric Nursing – India and at
international level
b) Trends in Psychiatric Nursing
c) National mental health programme

a) Therapeutic nurse patient relationship:
Definition, components and phases,
Importance
b) Communication skills Definition elements,
types, factors influencing communication,
barriers (therapeutic impasse)

a) Psycho-Pathophysiology of human behavior
b) Etiological theories (genetics, biochemical,
psychological etc)
c) Classification of mental disorders.
d) Disorders of thought, motor activity,
perception, mood, speech, memory,
concentration, judgment
e) Prevalence, etiology, signs and symptoms,
prognosis, medical and Nursing
management
f) Personality & types of personality related to
psychiatric disorder
g) Organic mental disorders: Delirium,
Dementia
f) Psychotic disorders:

• Schizophrenic disorders
• Mood (affective) disorders: Mania
  depression, Bipolar affective
  disorders(BPAD)
  h) Neurotic disorders: Phobia, anxiety
  disorders,obsessive compulsive disorders,
  depressive neurosis, conversion disorders,
  dissociative reaction, psychosomatic
  disorders, post traumatic stress disorder
  i) Substance use and de-addiction: alcohol,
  tobacco and other psychoactive substance
  j) Child and adolescent psychiatric disorder;
• Sleep disorder
• Eating disorders
• Sexual disorders
  k) Nursing Management: Nursing process and
  process recording in caring for patients with
  various psychiatric disorders

a) Psychopharmacology – Definition,
classification of drugs antipsychotic,
Antidepressant, antimanic, antian xiety
agents, anti parkinsons
b) Psychosocial therapies – individual
therapies, group therapy, behavior therapy,
occupational therapy, family therapy, melieu
therapy
c) Role of nurse in these therapies.
d) Somatic therapy – Electro Convulsive
Therapy, insulin therapy,
e) Role of nurse in these therapies.

a) Concept, importance, scope
b) Attitudes , Stigma and discrimination
related to the mentally ill
c) Prevention of mental illness(Preventive
Psychiatry) during childhood, adolescent,
adult hood and old age.
d) Community Mental Health Services.
e) Role of Nurse in national mental health
programme and Psychiatric care in
Community

a) Types of Psychiatric emergencies: Over
Active, under active patient, Violent
behaviour,
b) Suicide, adverse drug reactions, withdrawal
symptoms, Acute psychosis etc
c) Crisis and its intervention: AIDS,
Adolescent Crisis

a) India Lunatic Act 1912
b) Narcotic Drugs and psychotropic Act 1965,
1985
c) Mental Health Act 1987, 2014
d) Admission and discharge procedures
e) Standards of psychiatric nursing practice.
f) Rights of Mentally ill patients
g) Legal responsibilities in the care of mentally
ill patients.