ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING I & II is precisely written comprehensive textbook as per revised Indian Nursing Council (INC) syllabus for Undergraduate Nursing students. It also serves a useful reference text for general nursing and midwifery students, postgraduate nursing students and other health professionals. This book is an effort to outline common psychiatric conditions and procedures practiced in clinical situation. SALIENT FEATURES • SIMPLE AND FRIENDLY CONTENT: This edition includes information on different psychiatric disorders, clinical manifestations and diagnostic approaches in simple and friendly manner incorporating their application to clinical practice • COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION: The illustrative and lucid text is organized in step-by-step manner to hold the attention of students and enhance learning • CLINICAL EXAMPLES: The book contains examples from routine clinical scenarios, making it more attention-grabbing to read and understand to students • MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQS): A set of approximately 225 multiple-choice questions included, placed at the end of each chapter. These MCQs will be helpful in preparing for final exam and for entrance examinations, especially, MSc N, and Ph D nursing programs • NURSING CARE PLAN: Common and major psychiatric disorders are supplemented with nursing care plans. It can be beneficial and used as ready reference templates by nursing students to plan and write nursing care plan in clinical setting NEW TO THIS EDITION • OSCE for practical exams to helps prepare for practical exams during final exams • Mental health assessment tools to make the screening and assessment of common psychiatric conditions easier for the students • Nursing procedures to make the text more applied and clinical oriented • Elective modules as per the revised syllabus prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council for undergraduate nursing students • Updated text, latest and concise information on revised content of the syllabus in psychiatry nursing • Online ancillaries of important topics provided • Revised and updated box, tables, figures for more interesting and joyful teaching-learning