Includes index.

Contents: Unit I: Foundations of mental illness: Mental health and mental illness -- Theories and therapies -- Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology -- Unit II: Foundations for practice: Treatment settings -- Cultural implications -- Legal and ethical considerations -- Unit III: Psychosocial nursing tools: The nursing process and standards of care -- Therapeutic relationships -- Therapeutic communication -- Stress responses and stress management -- Unit IV: Psychobiological disorders: Childlhood and neurodevelopmental disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum disorders -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Depression disorders -- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Trauma, stressor-related, and dissociative disorders -- Somatic symptom disorders -- Eating and feeding disorders -- Sleep-wake disorders -- Sexual dysfunction, gender dysphoria and paraphilias -- Impulse control disorders -- Substance-related and addictive disorders -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Unit V: Trauma interventions: Suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury -- Crisis and disaster -- Anger, aggression and violence -- Child, older adult, and intimate partner violence -- Sexual assult --Unit VI: Interventions for special populations: Dying, death, and grieving -- Older adults -- Serious mental illness -- Forensic nursing -- Unit VII: Other intervention modalities: Therapeutic groups -- Family interventions -- Integrative care. The