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Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing

Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Across the Lifespan

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Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing

Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Across the Lifespan

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Kathleen Tusaie, PhD, APRN-BC

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN

Description

The only text for PMHNPs integrating psychotherapy, pharmacology, and CAM—across syndromes, settings, and the life span 

Includes CourseConnect: Know It. Use It. Test It. – The Smarter Way to Learn and Succeed! 

A practice-ready PMHNP text, organized by syndrome—not diagnosis—with clear strategies for comprehensive, patient-centered care. This edition includes clinical cases, treatment algorithms, and expert recommendations grounded in real-world APRN practice. Readers gain skills to integrate medication, therapy, and alternative care methods, with special focus on vulnerable populations, telehealth, and resilience building. Know, use, and test your understanding of course content with CourseConnect—an interactive learning platform included with your print purchase.

What’s New: 

  • Adds a new chapter on documentation to support high-quality care and continuity 
  • Expands coverage of telehealth and computer-assisted therapy 
  • Updates content to reflect the DSM-5-TR and latest Scope and Standards of Practice 
  • Includes new material on geropsychiatric care and abortion-related mental health 
  • Incorporates recent research on culturally responsive care 

Key Features: 

  • Covers integrative psychiatric care with psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and CAM, organized by syndrome and focused across the lifespan 
  • Equips PMHNPs to deliver comprehensive, evidence-based care using integrative strategies that support clinical confidence and patient outcomes 
  • Features decision trees, clinical cases, and lifespan alerts that promote critical thinking, application, and real-world readiness 
  • Written by renowned psychiatric nursing leaders with decades of clinical, academic, and publishing expertise dedicated to PMHNP education and practice 
  • Instructor Resources include Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, and more 

Maximize Your Learning With CourseConnect—Included With Your Print Purchase! Enhance your textbook experience with CourseConnect, an interactive learning platform designed to help you engage more deeply, study smarter, and achieve success in your course. 

  • Master Complex Concepts—Interactive learning activities simplify concepts and improve comprehension and retention. 
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  • Study Anytime, Anywhere—Enjoy seamless access to your eBook and study tools whenever and wherever you need them. 
  • Help Whenever You Need It – Course Coach provides answers, summaries, and practice questions to keep you moving forward and build confidence. 

Through purchase of this product, you'll get a license to continuous access to this CourseConnect course for as long as you need it, subject to our Terms of Use. 

Contents

Contributors 

Foreword to the First Edition by Grayce M. Sills, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Note on the Fourth Edition 

Preface 

Resources 

Instructor Resources 

Student Resources 

SECTION I. THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Development of Science, Education, and Credentialing for Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing 

Chapter 2. Shared Decision-Making: Concordance Between Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and Client 

SECTION II. FOUNDATIONS FOR INTEGRATIVE MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE 

Chapter 3. Synergy of Integrative Treatment 

Chapter 4. Overview of Psychotherapy 

Chapter 5. Overview of Psychopharmacology 

Chapter 6. Overview of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Approaches 

Chapter 7. Stages of Treatment 

Chapter 8. Legal and Ethical Decision-Making 

SECTION III. INTEGRATIVE MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC SYNDROMES 

Chapter 9. Integrative Management of Disordered Mood 

Chapter 10. Integrative Management of Anxiety-Related Conditions 

Chapter 11. Integrative Management of Psychotic Symptoms 

Chapter 12. Integrative Management of Sleep Disturbances 

Chapter 13. Integrative Management of Disordered Eating 

Chapter 14. Integrative Management of Disordered Cognition 

Chapter 15. Integrative Management of Disordered Impulse Control 

Chapter 16. Integrative Management of Disordered Attention 

Chapter 17. Integrative Management of Self-Injurious Behavior 

Chapter 18. Integrative Management of Other-Directed Violence 

SECTION IV. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS 

Chapter 19. Integrative Management of Substance Use Disorders and Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders  

Chapter 20. Medical Problems and Psychiatric Syndromes 

Chapter 21. Integrative Management of Pregnancy During Psychiatric Syndromes 

Chapter 22. Forensic Issues and Psychiatric Syndromes 

Chapter 23. Telehealth 

Chapter 24. LGBTQ+ Issues: Care of Sexual and Gender Minority Patients 

SECTION V. MAINTAINING COMPETENCE AND QUALITY 

Chapter 25. Increasing Resilience in Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurses  

Chapter 26. Documentation Standards for Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurses 

Chapter 27. Global Perspectives and the Future of Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing 

Index 

Authors

Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC, is professor emeritus at the University of Akron and has been in private practice since 1988. Dr. Tusaie is certified as a psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist and psychiatric nurse practitioner by the American Nurse Credentialing Center. She holds certificates in advanced pharmacology, multicultural nursing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), psychoneuroimumunology, brief psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, clinical hypnosis, and Bowen family therapy. In addition to the University of Akron, she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University School of Nursing. Her research has focused on the concept of resilience, and she has published and presented internationally. Dr. Tusaie published an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year—Fast Facts for the Nurse Psychotherapist—with Jeffrey S. Jones and reviews articles for several scholarly journals. 

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP(H), is Director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was dean from 1982 through 1997. In 2020 she was named Distinguished University Professor at CWRU. She earned a BSN (Georgetown University), an MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing (The Ohio State University), a PhD in nursing (New York University), and an MBA from CWRU. Dr. Fitzpatrick has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981, a fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996, and an honorary fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2019. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 22 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, volumes 1–26; she previously edited  the journals Applied Nursing Research, Nursing Education Perspectives, and Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. She has published several books with Springer Publishing Company, including four editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR). 

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Instructor eBook desk copies are available. Follow the two quick and easy steps below. 

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Suggested Courses:

  • Mental Health Nursing
  • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Curriculum

Includes the following instructor materials: 

  • LMS Common Cartridge - All Instructor Resources 
  • LMS Common Cartridge Import Instructions 
  • Instructor’s Manual
  • Instructor Test Bank
  • Instructor Chapter PowerPoints 
  • Mapping to AACN Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education  
  • Transition Guide: from Third Edition to Fourth Edition 

Please visit our Resources for Educators page for more information. 

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Product Details
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  • Release Date: March 28, 2026
  • Paperback / softback
  • 739 Pages
  • Trim Size: 8.5in x 11in
  • Number of Illustrations: 50
  • ISBN: 9780826154781
  • eBook ISBN: 9780826189592
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