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This handbook provides nurses working in mental health care with the skills and information they need to meet their patients' needs, to treat disorders with confidences, and to address difficult psychiatric issues in a developing country. Building on the Handbook of Psychiatry for Primary Care, this handbook also provides a list of referral systems, the principles of management of thought, modd, and behavioural disorders, a chapter on self-knowledge, self-awareness, and attitudes, and comprehensive material on Suicide Risk Assessment, cultural diversity, and managing side-effects.