Psychiatric-Mental Health: Scope and Standards of Practice, the latest addition to ANA's library of nursing specialty publications, reflects the immense changes in mental health care since the last edition in 2000. Again co-published with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, the book details nursing's leading edge in a critical healthcare arena.

Psychiatric-mental health nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice committed to promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. This core mental health profession employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of rapidly evolving nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological theories…