Chapter 1.Introduction -- Section 1. Principles and Theories -- Chapter 2. Taxonomies: Towards a shared nomenclature and language -- Chapter 3. Interpersonal -- Chapter 4. Humanistic -- Chapter 5. Cognitive Behavioural -- Chapter 6. Psychodynamic -- Chapter 7. Biopsychosocial -- Chapter 8. Two types of P/MH nurse -- Section 2. Epidemiology -- Chapter 9. European Mental Health Epidemiology and trends -- Section 3. The person in mental distress -- Chapter 10. Service User involvement and views -- Chapter 11. Psychological adaptation -- Chapter 12. Mental Health nurses and responding to suffering in the 21st century occidental world: Accompanying people on their search for meaning. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 29, 19-25 -- Chapter 13. Types of personality and how this effects responses to mental health challenges -- Chapter 14. Trauma informed care -- Section 4. Human experie nces of and P/MH nursing responses -- Chapter 15 Problems effecting a person's mood -- Chapter 16 Problems related to anxiety -- Chapter 17 Problems related to schizophrenia -- Chapter 18 Problems related to dementias and cognitive impairment -- Chapter 19 Problems related to substance and alcohol misuse -- Chapter 20 Problems related to eating disorders -- Chapter 21 Problems related to PTSD -- Section 5. P/MH Nursing competencies and ways of working -- Chapter 22. Forming and maintaining Interpersonal Relationships -- Chapter 23. Communication skills -- Chapter 24. Working in groups -- Chapter 25. Working with families -- Chapter 26. Mental Health promotion -- Chapter 27. Therapeutic Milieu -- Chapter 28. Descalation and defusion -- Section 6. Special Populations -- Chapter 29. P/MH Nursing care of children and adolescents -- Chapter 30. P/MH Nursing care of older adults -- Chapter 31. P/MH Nursing care of clients with Dual diagnosis/concurrent disorder -- Chapter 32. P/MH Nursing care of migrants and refugees -- Chapter 33. P/MH Nursing care of the indigent and homeless -- Section 7. Specific Challenges -- Chapter 34. Suicide/Self harm -- Chapter 35. Violence/aggression -- Chapter 36. The withdrawn or recalcitrant client -- Chapter 37. Combating stigma -- Chapter 38. Navigating the legal minefield of mental health care- f) P/MH nursing: cultural and spiritual contexts and challenges -- Section 8. Settings and Contexts -- Chapter 39. Inpatient -- Chapter 40. Day patient (out patient) and Community -- Chapter 41. Green Care and Therapeutic Communities -- Chapter 42. Prisons, Forensics and Correctional facilities -- Chapter 43. "E" Health, telehealth and telematics -- Chapter 44. Public Health or ecological approach.

This groundbreaking book has a number of features that set it apart from other textbooks on this subject: Firstly, it focuses on interpersonal, humanistic and ecological views and approaches to P/MH nursing. Secondly, it highlights patient/client-centered approaches and mental-health-service user involvement. Lastly, it is a genuinely European P/MH nursing textbook - the first of its kind - largely written by mental health scholars from Europe, although it also includes contributions from North America and Australia/New Zealand. Focusing on clinical/practical issues, theory and empirical findings, it adopts an evidence-based or evidence-informed approach. Each contribution presents the state-of-the-art of P/MH nursing in Europe so that it can be transferred to and implemented by P/MH nurses and the broader mental health care community around the globe. As such, it will be the first genuinely 21st century European Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing book.