Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse 3/e

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


• Psychotherapy with Older Adults


• Reimbursement and Documentation


• Termination and Outcome Evaluation