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Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse

A How-To Guide for Evidence-Based Practice

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Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN

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The Definitive Guide to Psychotherapy for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses.

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The leading, award-winning textbook for advanced practice psychiatric nurses and students, this gold-standard “how-to” compendium shows when and how to use evidence-based psychotherapies for specific clinical problems. The expanded third edition features a revised practice framework grounded in attachment theory and neurophysiology, integrates assessment, development, and neuroscience within a relationship-based model, and provides patient-management strategies from first contact through termination. Robust instructor resources are available.

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  • New chapters: Trauma Resiliency Model Therapy; Psychotherapeutics: Re-uniting Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacotherapy; Trauma-Informed Medication Management; Integrative Medicine and Psychotherapy; Psychotherapeutic Approaches with Children and Adolescents

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Contents

Contributors and Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Nurse Psychotherapist and a Framework for Practice

Chapter 2. The Neurophysiology of Trauma and Psychotherapy

Chapter 3. Assessment and Diagnosis

Chapter 4. The Initial Contact and Maintaining the Frame

Chapter 5. Supportive and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Chapter 6. Humanistic–Existential and Solution-Focused Approaches to Psychotherapy

Chapter 7. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy

Chapter 8. Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Chapter 9. Motivational Interviewing

Chapter 10. Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Chapter 11. Trauma Resiliency Model Therapy

Chapter 12. Group Therapy

Chapter 13. Family Therapy

Chapter 14. Psychotherapeutics: Re-uniting Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy

Chapter 15. Trauma-Informed Medication Management

Chapter 16. Integrative Medicine and Psychotherapy

Chapter 17. Stabilization for Trauma and Dissociation

Chapter 18. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Trauma

Chapter 19. Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Addictions and Related Disorders

Chapter 20. Psychotherapy with Children

Chapter 21. Psychotherapeutic Approaches with Children and Adolescents

Chapter 22. Psychotherapy with Older Adults

Chapter 23. Reimbursement and Documentation

Chapter 24. Termination and Outcome Evaluation

Authors

Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN, is a professor emerita at Fairfield University Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies in Fairfield, Connecticut where she developed one of the first PMHNP programs in the United States in 1994. Dr. Wheeler has been a leader in projects that are highly significant for advanced practice psychiatric nursing. These include cochair of the National Panel that developed the first PMHNP Competencies and the first chair of National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties’ (NONPF) PMHNP special interest group. Her book, Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse: A How-To Guide for Evidence-Based Practice, has been awarded two AJN Book of the Year Awards. 

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  • Release Date: September 1, 2020
  • Paperback / softback
  • 896 Pages
  • Trim Size: 7in x 10in
  • ISBN: 9780826193797
  • eBook ISBN: 9780826193896
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