Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing, Third Edition: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Acro

"This textbook is our go-to book, it is an excellent overview of advanced practice in psychiatric nursing. This is the text that we use in our seminar courses during clinical, and we also use it in our review for our ANCC boards. Our student's scores were 92% this past year! We are very pleased with this textbook!"

-Dr. Cheryl Zauderer, PhD, CNM, PMHNP-BC

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs

Co-Coordinator, PMHNP Program

Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing

Now in its third edition, this revised reference continues to serve as the only foundational resource for APRNs to incorporate a focus on integrative interventions with mental health issues across the lifespan. New chapters on Legal and Ethical Decision Making and LGBTQ+ Issues: Care of Sexual and Gender Minority Patients, and Increasing Resilience in Advanced Practice Mental Health Nurses, shed light on vital contemporary issues. This text offers expanded coverage on telehealth, population health, and the updated AACN Essentials. Additionally, the third edition provides 10 practical case studies illustrating specific syndromes as well as 2019 updates to the ANCC certification exam. It provides expanded instructor resources including a Test Bank and PowerPoints.

Comprehensive and practical, this text is organized around commonly seen clinical constellations of psychiatric symptoms and covers neurobiology, theory, and research evidence along with pharmacological information relevant to each syndrome. It delivers an abundance of valuable interventions from which clinicians and clients can co-create the most effective, individualized interventions. Popular decision trees provide an algorithm to help students work through the process of evaluating and treating patients, and a lifespan focus prepares students for treating patients in all age groups.

New to the Third Edition:

• New Chapters:
  • Legal and Ethical Decision Making
  • LGBTQ+ Issues: Care of Sexual and Gender Minority Patients
  • Increasing Resilience in Advanced Practice Mental Health Nurses
• Includes 10 new case studies delivering practical information on specific syndromes
• Updated to reflect 2019 ANCC certification exam and 2020 AACN Essentials

Key Features:

• Simplifies complex concepts using clear language while retaining depth of information
• Includes diverse treatment options, decision trees, easy-to-follow algorithms, and pertinent pharmacological data
• Edited by internationally acclaimed PMH-APRN practitioner/educators
• Contains "Aging Alerts" and "Pediatric Points"
• Reflects the DSM 5 and discusses genetic testing
• Expanded instructor resources include a Test Bank and PowerPoints

Kathleen R. Tusaie, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS/NP-BC, is professor emerita, past lead faculty of the Psychiatric NP Program at the University of Akron, and co-owner of a private group practice. Dr. Tusaie is certified as a PMH nurse practitioner (NP) and CNS (AACN). In addition, she holds certificates in advanced pharmacology, multicultural nursing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), psychoneuroimumunology, brief psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and clinical hypnosis, and she is a trained Bowen family therapist. In addition to the University of Akron, she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University School of Nursing. Her clinical experience (since 1975) has been in psychiatric nursing, starting as a staff RN, then community mental health, administration, and progressing to advanced practice nursing. She has researched and published with an emphasis on the concept of resilience. Her textbook, Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches, Second Edition (Springer Publishing Company, 2016), edited with Dr. Fitzpatrick, is used in many graduate programs and received the designation as a Doody's Core Title. Dr. Tusaie has presented at national and international conferences, including at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), and Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS), and has been the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on five funded research projects. She is currently a member of APNA.

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, is 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. She is also adjunct professor, Department of Geriatrics, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Georgetown University), an MS in psychiatric & mental health nursing (The Ohio State University), a PhD in nursing (New York University), and an MBA (CWRU). In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Georgetown University. In 2011, she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Frontier University of Nursing in Hyden, Kentucky. She was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) (1981) and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice (1996).

She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 20 times; the Midwest Nursing Research Society Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award; The Ohio State University Distinguished Alumna Award; Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Founders Award for Excellence in Nursing Research; and New York University Division of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award. In 1994 & 1995 she was the AAN/American Nurses Foundation (ANF)/ Institute of Medicine Distinguished Scholar, and in 1995 she was a Primary Care Fellow through the Bureau of Health Professions. Dr. Fitzpatrick received the ANF Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science Award for sustained commitment and contributions to development of the discipline (2002). Recent awards include STTI Lucie Kelly Mentor Award (2003); STTI Founders Award for Leadership (2005); Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork, Cork, Ireland (2007-2008); Midwest Nursing Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2010); INANE Editors Award (2013); and STTI Research Hall of Fame Induction (2014). In 2016 she was named a Living Legend of the AAN.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications, including more than 80 authored/edited books. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26, and she currently edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research.