Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introductions to psychiatric/mental health concepts: 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 -- Psychiatric/mental health nursing interventions: 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 -- Care of clients with psychiatric disorders: Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance-related 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 -- Psychiatric mental health nursing of special populations: Children and adolescents -- Survivors of abuse or neglect -- The Aging individual -- Community mental health nursing -- The Bereaved individual -- Military families --