Contents: Psychiatric mental health nursing -- Therapeutic communication -- Standards of practice and nursing process -- Standards of practice and nursing process -- Legal and ethical issues -- Psychobiology -- Crisis theory and intervention -- Mental health and mental illness -- Psychotherapy -- Neurocognitive disorders -- schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Mood and adjustment disorders -- Anxiety, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Personal disorders -- Substance use disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Anger, aggression, abuse, assault, violence -- Eating disorder -- Sexual disorders -- Trauma-related and stress related disorders -- Special populations