A case study companion to the leading textbook on psychotherapy for advanced practice psychiatric nurses.
Case Study Approach to Psychotherapy for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses is a case study companion to the groundbreaking and award-winning textbook Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse, edited by Kathleen Wheeler. Designed for both the novice and experienced advanced practice psychiatric nurse, it provides complementary content and activities to help students and professionals master the art and science of conducting psychotherapy.
The case studies address a wide range of diverse theoretical approaches and varied client problems and psychiatric diagnoses. Each chapter follows a consistent format to allow for comparison, beginning with the authors personal experience, providing the reader with the understanding of how various theoretical orientations were chosen. This is followed by background on philosophy and key concepts, as well as mental health and psychopathology, therapeutic goals, assessment perspectives, and therapeutic interventions. The chapter then presents background on the client and a selection of verbatim transcript segments from the beginning, middle, and final phase of therapy. The therapeutic process is illustrated by client-therapist dialogues, which are supplemented with process commentaries that explain the rationale for the interventions. A final commentary on the case is presented to enhance the readers clinical reasoning skills.
Candice Knight, PhD, EdD, APN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, is an associate professor and director of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at New York University College of Nursing in New York City, New York. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, a psychiatric nurse clinical specialist, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, and co-owner of large private practice that works with clients across the life span. Dr. Knight is a certified Gestalt therapist who practices psychotherapy from a humanistic-existential framework. Whether providing psychotherapy or prescribing medications, she believes in the primacy of the therapeutic relationship and understanding her clients from an in-depth, phenomenological perspective. Dr. Knight is a well-known regional and national speaker on many diverse topics related to psychotherapy. Her research, writing, and teaching interests are centered on how to become an exceptional psychotherapist, how to create moments of healing in psychotherapy, and how to teach psychotherapy to aspiring psychotherapists.
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.
