Psychiatric Nursing: Biological and Behavioral Concepts

I've taken four different psych courses and this was my first "nursing" psych class. I can't say much for the instructor of this class.. but I found the book immensely helpful. It's not difficult to read, which is more than I can say for some of the abnormal psych books I've had previous experience with. I essentially just read the book and skipped majority of my lectures and passed with flying colors. Depending on the type of instructor you have this may not necessarily work for you, but it certainly did for me! This is definitely a beginner's guide though to psychiatric illness, it touches on many many aspects of mental illnesses without going into much detail about any specifically - this made it great for intro to psych nursing , but for anybody wanting something more substantial or specific to one disease, this is probably not the right book to choose. Regarding the previous review - I did not buy the study-guide that accompanies this text. I didn't think the book questions were that terrible, there are some following every chapter - however, I've been relying more on my actual NClex book for questions rather than the text-books required for classes.