Mental health and mental illness -- Biological implications -- Ethical and legal issues -- Psychopharmacology -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric mental health nursing -- Relationship development and therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric mental health nursing -- Milieu therapy-the therapeutic community -- Intervention in groups -- Crisis intervention -- The recovery model -- Suicide prevention -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance use and addictive disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and related disorders -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality and gender dysphoria -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Children and adolescents -- The aging individual -- Survivors of abuse or neglect -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Military families.