Learning Objectives After completing this course, you’ll be able to communicate effectively with psychiatric patients, make appropriate nursing diagnoses, explain probable etiologies, set long- and short-term goals, and provide interventions with rationales. • Treatment modalities and therapeutic communication • Disorders first evident in infancy, childhood, and adolescence • Delirium, dementia and amnestic disorders  • Substance-related disorders, schizophrenia • Mood anxiety, somatoform, dissociative, eating, adjustment and personality disorders • Includes all the new DSM-IV classifications