Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing

Part 1 Advanced practice for the 21st century: advanced practice psychiatric nurses' historical influences on today's education and practice; advancing psychiatric nursing in a reforming health care system; the role of conceptual models and therapeutic modalities in advanced psychiatric nursing practice; integrating mental health in a nurse-managed rehabilitation program for older adults; midwives and psychiatric nurses; case management for advanced practice psychiatric nursing; psychiatric home health services; legal issues in advanced practice mental health nursing. Part 2 Concepts and interventions: the psychiatric nursing interview; psychodynamic case formulations - synthesis assessment and planning treatment; transference and countertransference; trauma and memory - clinical and legal understanding of traumatic amnesia; brief individual psychotherapies; treating substance abuse in family therapy; cognitive therapy in advanced nursing practice; liaison psychiatric mental health nursing; assessment measures for abused women; assessment of abused children. Part 3 Vulnerable populations: issues disorders; outpatient treatment of clients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa; personality disorders; working with children in foster care; treatment of complex sexual assault; crisis intervention and problem solving with battered women; care of abused persons who are developmentally disabled; paths to successful stepfamily living; crisis and community disaster; forensic nursing. Appendices: sexual victimization; legal matters.