Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Across the Lifespan

Integrates psychotherapy, pharmacology, and CAM―across syndromes, settings, and the life span 

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A practice-ready PMHNP text, organized by syndrome―not diagnosis―with clear strategies for comprehensive, patient-centered care. This edition includes clinical cases, treatment algorithms, and expert recommendations grounded in real-world APRN practice. Readers gain skills to integrate medication, therapy, and alternative care methods, with special focus on vulnerable populations, telehealth, and resilience building. Know, use, and test your understanding of course content with CourseConnect―an interactive learning platform included with your print purchase.

What’s New: 

• Adds a new chapter on documentation to support high-quality care and continuity 
• Expands coverage of telehealth and computer-assisted therapy 
• Updates content to reflect the DSM-5-TR and latest Scope and Standards of Practice 
• Includes new material on geropsychiatric care and abortion-related mental health 
• Incorporates recent research on culturally responsive care 

Key Features: 

• Covers integrative psychiatric care with psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and CAM, organized by syndrome and focused across the lifespan 
• Equips PMHNPs to deliver comprehensive, evidence-based care using integrative strategies that support clinical confidence and patient outcomes 
• Features decision trees, clinical cases, and lifespan alerts that promote critical thinking, application, and real-world readiness 
• Written by renowned psychiatric nursing leaders with decades of clinical, academic, and publishing expertise dedicated to PMHNP education and practice 
• Instructor Resources include Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, and more 

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Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC, is professor emeritus at the University of Akron and has been in private practice since 1988. Dr. Tusaie is certified as a psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist and psychiatric nurse practitioner by the American Nurse Credentialing Center. She holds certificates in advanced pharmacology, multicultural nursing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), psychoneuroimumunology, brief psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, clinical hypnosis, and Bowen family therapy. In addition to the University of Akron, she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University School of Nursing. Her research has focused on the concept of resilience, and she has published and presented internationally. Dr. Tusaie published an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year―Fast Facts for the Nurse Psychotherapist―with Jeffrey S. Jones and reviews articles for several scholarly journals. 

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP(H), is Director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and 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. In 2020 she was named Distinguished University Professor at CWRU. She earned a BSN (Georgetown University), an MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing (The Ohio State University), a PhD in nursing (New York University), and an MBA from CWRU. Dr. Fitzpatrick has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981, a fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996, and an honorary fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2019. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 22 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, volumes 1–26; she previously edited  the journals Applied Nursing Research, Nursing Education Perspectives, and Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. She has published several books with Springer Publishing Company, including four editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR).