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