• 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