Equip your nursing students for mental healthcare with confidence

Our mental health course solutions help you address the unique challenges of teaching Mental Health Nursing, such as overcoming stigma, managing the emotional impact of sensitive topics, and blending communication skills into holistic patient care.

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Build the course you’ve envisioned

Choose the content approach you prefer knowing it is written to meet the complex demands of Mental Health Nursing courses. Consider the convenience of content access within Lippincott® CoursePoint+. This all-in-one platform offers a cost-effective solution that combines essential learning tools for this challenging nursing skill set.

Mental Health Nursing, I0th Edition

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 10th Edition

Sheila L. Videbeck, PhD, RN
2026

This resource, known for its humor and engaging approach, delivers clear, practical insights into psychiatric nursing while emphasizing a strong nursing process foundation and tools to enhance clinical judgment and culturally responsive care.

Key features:

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  • NEW! Building Clinical Judgment boxes develops decision-making skills with patient scenarios that challenge clinical reasoning.
  • EXPANDED! Case Studies boost comprehension and confidence with real-world applications.
  • UPDATED! Evidence-Based Practice boxes equip students with the latest approaches for effective psychiatric care.
  • Therapeutic Dialogues demonstrate communication techniques through realistic, screenplay-style conversations.
  • EXPANDED! Watch and Learn videos in Lippincott® CoursePoint strengthen clinical skills with video scenarios and assessments.
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Book cover for Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 8th Edition

Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 8th Edition

Mary Ann Boyd, PhD, DNS, RN, PMHCNS-BC; Rebecca Luebbert, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC
2026

This definitive Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing textbook is fully updated for today's challenges. It helps students deliver exceptional, recovery-oriented care using evidence-based approaches and clinical judgment development. Unique features include professional nurse reflections, mental health inequity discussions, and a new chapter on complementary therapies.

Key features:

(For a full feature list, see the preface):

  • NEW! Integrative Health chapter prepares students with holistic, evidence-based approaches.
  • NEW! SBAR boxes sharpen communication skills for clear, collaborative interprofessional practice.
  • UPDATED! Media Recommendations connect theory to practice with questions based on movies and TV shows.
  • EXPANDED! Safety and de-escalation content builds confidence in handling challenging situations with practical, clinical strategies.
  • EXPANDED! Watch and Learn videos in Lippincott® CoursePoint enhance core skills like de-escalation and communication.
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Essentials of Psychiatric Nursing, 3rd Edition

Essentials of Psychiatric Nursing, 3rd Edition

Mary Ann Boyd, PhD, DNS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, and Rebecca Luebbert, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC
2022

This concise, evidence-based guide helps beginning nursing students build therapeutic communication skills and master essential concepts for confident psychiatric nursing practice. Rich with clinical examples and the latest research, it prepares students to provide compassionate care for individuals with mental health challenges across diverse healthcare settings.

Key features:

  • NEW! COVID-19 Mental Health content prepares students to address the pandemic's impact on mental health and adapt to evolving practices like virtual therapy.
  • UPDATED! Veteran care coverage empowers students to provide specialized support for military veterans and their families facing unique mental health challenges.
  • UPDATED! Community nursing care coverage prepares students for diverse roles outside traditional hospital settings, expanding career opportunities.
  • Unfolding Patient Stories, created by the National League for Nursing, immerse students in real-world scenarios to enhance clinical judgment and decision-making.
  • Emergency Care Alerts equip students to quickly recognize and intervene in critical psychiatric situations, ensuring effective care delivery.
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Lippincott® CoursePoint+ for Mental Health Nursing

Lippincott CoursePoint+ is the leading digital curriculum learning solution for nursing education. Lippincott CoursePoint+ integrates the trusted content of our eBooks with adaptive learning, alongside virtual simulation, videos, and clinical decision support tools, all with in-depth reporting that gives educators actionable insights to create a personalized learning experience.

Feature highlights:

  • Interactive eBook allows students to access the title anytime, take notes, highlight text; and with the read-aloud feature, learning is convenient.
  • Lippincott® Advisor provides nursing students with the same point-of-care decision tool they will likely encounter in practice.
  • NEW! One-Minute Nurse video collection breaks down key nursing concepts to improve student understanding and retention.
  • vSim® for Nursing boosts students’ confidence and clinical judgment capabilities.
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Enhance your course by incorporating these learning tools and manage your course easily, all in one platform with single sign-on. Talk to your sales representative about enhancements including LMS integration.

Lippincott® Client Cases for Clinical Judgment

Encourage thoughtful practice in patient care. Build a clinical judgment mindset across the curriculum with cognitive practice in hundreds of realistic and complex patient scenarios. Lippincott offers Client Cases for Clinical Judgment in 17 areas in unfolding EHRs.
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Lippincott® DocuCare

Lippincott® DocuCare gives students hands-on experience with realistic charting and workflows modeled after leading EHR systems with 400 customizable patient records, robust clinical decision support, and clinically realistic simulation updates, all in a user-friendly course management platform. Students build clinical judgment and communication skills that healthcare employers expect and patients need.
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vSim® for Nursing

Equip students with clinical experience through interactive virtual simulation while honing clinical judgment, competence, and confidence for the Next Generation NCLEX® and throughout their careers.
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vrClinicals for Nursing

Enhance clinical decision-making skills with virtual experiences that immerse students in realistic, multi-patient care scenarios. Allowing students to prepare in this safe setting enhances their confidence and readies them for the demands of practice.
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