Mental Health Nursing
By Dr. Akash Garg, DC, MS Pharmacology, MEd, MBA · Updated October 20, 2026
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Chapters
- 1Mental Health, Mental Illness and StigmaThe continuum: mental health, mental illness and what sits between, Stigma: the second illness, From asylum to recovery: how this care got here
- 2The Therapeutic Relationship and CommunicationThe Nurse as the Instrument, What to Say, and Why It Works, Trauma-Informed Care, Culture and the Words We Use
- 3Legal and Ethical Issues in Mental Health CareEthical Foundations: Principles That Have to Live in a Real Room, Admission Status and the Rights That Travel With Every Patient, Confidentiality, HIPAA and the Duty to Protect
- 4Assessment: The Mental Status Exam and Risk ScreeningBefore the First Question: Safety, Setting and Trauma-Informed Interviewing, The Mental Status Examination, Component by Component, Around the Exam: History, Medical Mimics, Cognition and Culture
- 5Neurobiology and PsychopharmacologyThe Synapse, the Circuit and the Stress Axis, Antidepressants and the Long Fuse, Mood Stabilisers and Narrow Windows
- 6Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Trauma-Related DisordersAnxiety as a Signal: Neurobiology, Levels and the Line into Disorder, The Anxiety Disorders: Recognition, Screening and Nursing Care, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- 7Depressive and Bipolar DisordersThe Depressive Disorders: What You Are Actually Looking At, The Bipolar Spectrum: Mania, Hypomania and Mixed Features, Pharmacology by Mechanism — and the Four Emergencies
- 8Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic DisordersWhat Psychosis Is, and What It Is Not, Assessment Before Intervention, Talking With a Person Who Is Psychotic
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- 9Substance Use and Addictive DisordersWhat Addiction Is: Neurobiology, Diagnosis and Language, Assessment: Screening, History and the Honest Conversation, Intoxication, Overdose and Withdrawal Emergencies
- 10Personality DisordersPersonality, and When a Pattern Becomes a Disorder, The Three Clusters — and What Each One Needs From You, Assessment: Mental Status Exam and Risk Screening
- 11Eating Disorders and Somatic Symptom DisordersSeeing the disorder, not the body, The starving and purging body, Meal support, milieu and what to say
- 12Neurocognitive Disorders: Delirium and DementiaCognition, Ageing and the Three Ds, Delirium — The Emergency That Looks Like Confusion, Major Neurocognitive Disorder — Subtypes, Staging and Assessment
- 13Crisis, Suicide, Aggression and De-escalationCrisis: when the usual coping runs out, Suicide risk: asking the question directly, Safety planning and the safer environment
- 14Across the Lifespan and Into the CommunityChildren and Adolescents, The Perinatal Period and the Adult Years, Older Adults
Written by Dr. Akash Garg
Doctor of Chiropractic, MS in Pharmacology, MEd and MBA. Teaching college science since 2007.