What is mental health? -- The policy context of mental health nursing in the UK -- Models and values of mental health nursing practice -- Legal and ethical frameworks for mental health nursing practice -- Facilitating evidence based practice -- Co-production: facilitating recovery with service users -- Communication and interpersonal skills 1: an introduction -- Commonly occurring mental health problems -- Serious mental health problems -- Organic mental health problems -- People with learning disabilities and mental health -- Substance misuse -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorder -- Communication and interpersonal skills 2: emotional engagement -- Cognitive behavioural therapy -- Psychodynamic and other talking therapies -- Basics of psychopharmacology -- Assessment and therapeutic management of risk -- Working with self-harm and suicide -- Mental health promotion -- Mental health and children, adolescents and younger people -- Mental health and adults -- Mental health in later life -- Applying recovery based principles in practice -- Community based mental health services in action -- In-patient services -- Working with family and friends -- Embracing mental health and physical healthcare -- Clinical supervision for the new supervisee