Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mental health and mental illness -- Concepts of personality development -- Biological implications -- Ethical and legal issues -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental -- Health nursing -- Relationship development and therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Milieu therapy - The therapeutic community -- Intervention in groups -- Intervening in crises -- The recovery model -- Complementary and psychosocial therapies -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance use and addictive disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and related disorders -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality and gender dysphoria -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Children and adolescents -- Victims of abuse or neglect -- The aging individual -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Military families.

Whether it's an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this title offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing - in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders.