Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry
Boland, Verduin · 11th Edition
Complete chapter-by-chapter study guide aligned with Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (11th Edition). Includes summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions for all 37 chapters.
Overview
Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (11th Edition) is the field's benchmark reference, and graduate and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner programs draw on it for the depth that undergraduate texts don't cover. This study guide is written from scratch to follow its 37-chapter sequence, so you review in the same order the reference moves from foundational science through every major clinical domain and always know where a topic belongs. For every chapter you get a plain-English summary of the key concepts, the chapter's learning objectives laid out up front, and exam-style practice questions with a full rationale for every answer, so it teaches you why each choice is right or wrong rather than just handing you a key. You'll start with the neural, psychosocial, and sociocultural sciences and personality theory, then move through examination, diagnosis, and classification before working disorder by disorder — psychotic, mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma-related, dissociative, psychosomatic, eating, sleep, sexual, disruptive, substance use, neurocognitive, and personality disorders. From there you'll cover emergency psychiatry, complementary approaches, abuse, reproductive psychiatry, psychotherapies, psychopharmacology, and brain stimulation, before finishing with child, adult, and geriatric psychiatry, end-of-life issues, and public, forensic, and world psychiatry. Every chapter is matched to the 11th Edition's numbering so your review stays in sync with a graduate psychiatric curriculum. As you study you'll practice the differential-diagnosis and treatment-planning reasoning that graduate coursework and PMHNP certification both emphasize, working across the full breadth of psychiatric practice rather than a single-disorder slice. Whether you're prepping for a graduate psychiatric nursing exam, a PMHNP certification review, or reviewing this reference across a full program, this printable companion is built to be highlighted, annotated, and kept for the whole program. Original, independently written, and not affiliated with the publisher.
Aligned with graduate-level psychiatric-mental health nursing and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) programs — the practice questions mirror the breadth and differential-diagnosis reasoning emphasized on PMHNP certification review and graduate course exams.
- 1,110+ practice questions
- 37 chapters
- ~120 pages
- Instant PDF download
What you'll learn
The major topics this guide walks you through, matched to the textbook's order:
- Neural, psychosocial, and sociocultural foundations of psychiatry
- Psychiatric examination, diagnosis, and classification
- Psychotic and mood disorders
- Anxiety, OCD, and trauma-related disorders
- Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders
- Substance use and neurocognitive disorders
- Personality disorders and emergency psychiatry
- Psychotherapies and psychopharmacological treatment
- Brain stimulation methods
- Child, adult, and geriatric psychiatry
- End-of-life and public psychiatry
- Forensic psychiatry and ethics
Need the textbook itself?
The textbook itself, edited by Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin (Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott), is the field's long-standing comprehensive psychiatry reference, spanning foundational science through every major clinical and treatment domain across two volumes.
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Chapters covered
Every chapter below is fully covered in the PDF — summary, learning objectives, key terms, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales.
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What exactly do I get?
A printable PDF study guide covering all 37 chapters of Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (11th Edition) — chapter summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales. One file, lifetime access, no subscription.
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Does this match the 11th Edition specifically?
Yes — it's built around the 11th Edition, following its 37-chapter structure. If your program uses an earlier edition, the chapter sequence has been stable across recent editions, though a few titles may differ slightly.
Is this the textbook or a study guide?
It's an original, independently written study guide that reviews the same topics in the same order — plain-English summaries, learning objectives, and exam-style practice questions with rationales. It does not reproduce the textbook and isn't affiliated with the publisher.
Will it match my edition?
This guide is built around the 11th Edition. If your class uses a different edition, chapter numbering may shift slightly, but the topics and learning objectives are usually unchanged.
Do I still need the textbook?
The study guide is a companion, not a replacement — it helps you study efficiently and review fast, but you'll still want the textbook for full depth and any assigned readings. You can buy new, rent, or find a used copy through the price links on this page.
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Is this a test bank or copied from the textbook?
No. This is an original study guide written to align with Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry — summaries, objectives, and practice questions with rationales, not a reproduced publisher test bank or copied text.
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About this study guide
This is an original study guide written to align with the topics and learning objectives covered in Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (11th Edition) by Boland, Verduin. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the publisher or the textbook's authors. All summaries, practice questions, and explanations are independently authored.