Essential Theoretical Concepts for Practice -- Science and the Therapeutic Use of Self in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing -- Mental Health and Mental Illness -- Theories and Therapies -- Biological Basis for Understanding Psychopharmacology -- Settings for Psychiatric Care -- Legal and Ethical Basis for Practice -- Tools for Practice of the Art -- The Nursing Process in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing -- Communication Skills: Medium for All Nursing Practice -- Therapeutic Relationships and the Clinical Interview -- Caring for Patients With Psychobiological Disorders -- Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders and Dissociative Disorders -- Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders -- Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Personality Disorders -- Eating Disorders -- Mood Disorders: Depression -- Bipolar Spectrum Disorders -- Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Other Psychotic Disorders -- Neurocognitive Disorders -- Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders -- Caring for Patients Experiencing Psychiatric Emergencies -- Crisis and Mass Disaster -- Child, Partner, and Elder Violence -- Sexual Violence -- Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors -- Anger, Aggression, and Violence -- Care for the Dying and Those Who Grieve -- Age-Related Mental Health Disorders -- Children and Adolescents -- Adults