The leading textbook on psychotherapy for advanced practice psychiatric nurses and students.
Award-winning and highly lauded, Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse is a how-to compendium of evidence-based approaches for both new and experienced advanced practice psychiatric nurses and students. This expanded third edition includes a revised framework for practice based on new theory and research on attachment and neurophysiology. It advises the reader on when and how to use techniques germane to various evidence-based psychotherapy approaches for the specific client problems encountered in clinical practice.
The skillful therapist knows how to respond, engage, and accurately assess the problem to formulate a treatment plan. This textbook guides the reader in accurate assessment through a comprehensive understanding of development and the application of neuroscience to make sense of what is happening for the patient in treatment. Contributed by leaders in the field, chapters integrate the best evidence-based approaches into a relationship-based framework and provides helpful patient-management strategies, from the first contact through termination. This gold-standard textbook and reference honors the heritage of psychiatric nursing, reaffirms the centrality of relationship for psychiatric advanced practice, and celebrates the excellence, vitality, depth, and breadth of knowledge of the specialty.
Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN, is an advanced practice psychiatric nurse and a professor and director of the PMHNP program at Fairfield University Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies in Fairfield, Connecticut. Dr. Wheeler has been a leader in projects that are highly significant for psychiatric nursing. These include co-chair of the National Panel that developed the PMHNP Competencies; the first chair of NONPFs PMHNP special interest group; and the author of Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse: A How-To Guide for Evidence-Based Practice, which has been awarded two AJN Book of the Year Awards. Her leadership extends beyond psychiatric nursing as past President and advisory director of the EMDR International Association and in the development of an Integrative Trauma
The Nurse Psychotherapist and a Framework for Practice
The Neurophysiology of Trauma and Psychotherapy
Assessment and Diagnosis
The Initial Contact and Maintaining the Frame
Supportive and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Humanistic-Existential and Solution-Focused Approaches to Psychotherapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Trauma Resiliency Model Therapy
Group Therapy
Family Therapy
Psychotherapeutics. Re-Uniting Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy
Trauma-Informed Medication Management
Integrative Medicine and Psychotherapy
Stabilization for Trauma and Dissociation
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Trauma
Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Addictions and Related Disorders
Psychotherapy with Children
Psychotherapeutic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
