Ch 1: The history of mental health nursing
Ch 2: A conceptual framework for MHN
Ch 3: Comprehensive mental health care
Ch 4: Mental health care in the health care system
Ch 5: The consumers in mental health care
Ch 6: Legal structure
Ch 7: Ethical dilemmas in mental health nursing
Ch 8: Working with cultural diversity in mental health care
Ch 9: The mental health nursing process
Ch 10: Assessment of the psychiatric patient
Ch 11: Nursing interventions
Ch 12: Nursing the patient with an anxiety disorder
Ch 13: Nursing the patient with a mood disorder
Ch 14: Nursing the patient with schizophrenia
Ch 15: Nursing the patient with a substance-related disorder
Ch 16: Nursing the patient with a cognitive disorder
Ch 17: Nursing care of persons with intellectual disabilities
Ch 18: Nursing the patient with a personality disorder; Ch 19: People who have experienced trauma
Ch 20: People with mental illness who have comorbid general medical conditions
Ch 21: Mental health of people living with HIV or Aids
Ch 22: Mental health nursing of children and adolescents
Ch 23: Nursing forensic psychiatric patients
Appendix 1: Inpatient evaluation scale
Appendix 2: University of Natal Functional Assessment Scale
Appendix 3: examples of questions used in a psychiatric history
Appendix 4: Evaluation of group work
Appendix 5: Evaluation of mental health education
Appendix 6: Time-event chart for a patient with anxiety symptoms
Appendix 7: Hamilton anxiety rating scale
Appendix 8: Beck depression inventory
Appendix 9: Classification of psychiatric disorders of infancy, childhood & adolescence
Appendix 10: Glossary of psychiatric terms
