Content: Foundations for mental health nursing: Mental health assessment, medical/nursing diagnoses, and mental health nursing interventions -- Legal and ethical issues in mental health nursing -- Developing and maintaining a therapeutic nurse-client relationship -- Effective communication in mental health nursing -- Understanding anxiety defense mechanisms -- Creating and maintaining a therapeutic and safe environment -- Mental health nursing in diverse practice settings -- Culturally aware mental health nursing -- Traditional nonpharmacological therapies: Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and behavioral therapy -- Group and family therapy -- Stress management -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Psychopharmacological therapies: Medications to treat anxiety disorders -- Medications to treat mood disorders: depression -- Medications to treat mood disorders: bipolar -- Medications to treat psychoses -- Medications to treat cognitive disorders: alzheimer's disease -- Medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) -- Psychobiologic disorders, psychiatric emergencies, and mental health nursing care of special populations: Psychobiologic disorders: Anxiety disorders -- Somatoform disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Eating disorders -- Mood disorders: depression -- Mood disorders: bipolar -- Schizophrenia -- Cognitive disorders -- Developmental and behavioral disorders -- Substance-related and non-substance-related dependencies -- Psychiatric emergencies: Crisis management -- Suicide -- Anger management -- Family and community violence -- Sexual assault -- Mental health nursing care of special populations: Care of those who are dying and/or grieving -- Mental health issues of the adolescent -- Mental health issues of the older adult.