Essentials of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing (2 Vols Set) for BSc Nursing and GNM Students | Comprehensive General Psychiatry Guide with University Review Questions

Essentials of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing is a comprehensive 2-volume set by KP Neeraja that presents the full scope of general psychiatry and psychiatric nursing practice for nursing students and practicing nurses. Volume One lays the foundation with ten chapters on introductory and basic concepts of mental health and psychiatry, while Volume Two moves into psychiatric disorders in detail - definitions, incidence, prevalence, risk factors, aetiological factors, clinical manifestations, diagnostic features, and medical and nursing management - across 674 pages together. Volume One builds from mental health definitions, mental hygiene, and the role of heredity and environment in human development, through defense mechanisms, normative behaviour, and criteria for assessing normality and abnormality, into the principles and concepts of psychiatric nursing (terminology, standards of practice, scope, history, classification of mental disorders, and the role, functions and qualities of a psychiatric nurse), and an introduction to mental illness covering causes, symptomatology, history-taking, mental status examination, and the nurse's role across psychiatric hospital, community and preventive-psychiatry settings. The content is drawn from authentic sources and organized around the syllabi of nursing courses across varied universities and boards at multiple levels - Postgraduate, Graduate, and Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery - and is presented with examples, tables, schematic diagrams and pictures for clarity. Every chapter closes with Review Questions compiled from multiple university and board question papers, letting students prepare directly against the kind of questions they will actually be examined on. Who This Book Is For: BSc Nursing Students: a syllabus-mapped, university-question-bank-backed text covering the full psychiatric nursing curriculum. GNM Students: foundational and clinical psychiatric nursing content written in clear, accessible language for the Diploma-level nursing course. MSc Nursing Students: detailed disorder-wise coverage (aetiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management) supports postgraduate-level study. Nursing Tutors and Educators: a ready teaching reference with authentic content, diagrams, and a multi-university review-question bank for classroom use. Why This Book Helps: Covers the whole subject in one set: foundational concepts in Volume One and disorder-specific clinical detail in Volume Two, so students are not left needing a second textbook. Prepares directly for exams: Review Questions at the end of every chapter are drawn from actual university and board question papers across multiple Indian nursing universities. Builds real clinical assessment skill: covers history-taking, mental status examination, and the nurse's observation record so students can practice systematic psychiatric assessment. Written for comprehension, not just coverage: lucid, simple language, with examples, tables and schematic diagrams, so even an average student can grasp complex psychiatric concepts. Key Features: Two-volume set spanning 674 pages: Volume One on general psychiatry foundations, Volume Two on psychiatric disorders in detail. Content mapped to Postgraduate, Graduate, and Diploma nursing syllabi across varied Indian universities and boards. Review Questions at the end of every chapter, compiled from multiple university/board question papers with mark weightage. Detailed disorder-wise coverage in Volume Two: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, aetiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and medical/nursing management. Authored by KP Neeraja, a doctorate-holding nursing educator and author of 15 nursing textbooks.

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