• Contributions from key psychiatric/mental health nursing academics, clinicians and experts
• Introduces and details the new Mental Health Act 2001 in Ireland
• Discusses all the main illnesses in a nursing care context, providing an overview of the treatments available, with an emphasis on the nursing care and management of these illnesses
• Includes a chapter on the physical assessment of clients with mental health problems, and a chapter on physical treatments and pharmacology
• Provides a detailed account of a number of contemporary issues impacting on the practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing; including service user involvement, sexuality and mental health, clinical supervision, liaison psychiatric nursing and transcultural mental health nursing
• Uses scenarios and reflective questions at the end of each chapter to facilitate student learning and revision
• Suitable as a core text for all students of mental health nursing across all years and has relevance for post-graduate mental health nursing students
• This book is also suitable as a resource for practising clinicians
