Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing
Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Across the Life Span
Title Details
4th Ed.
Copyright © 2027 Springer Publishing Company, LLC
Kathleen Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC; Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP(H)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-5478-1
eISBN-13: 978-0-8261-8959-2
Nursing, Psychiatry
Additional Details
Integrates psychotherapy, pharmacology, and CAM—across syndromes, settings, and the life span
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.
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
This title is written for and by PMH-APRNs in direct patient care. In addition to serving as a classroom textbook, it is also set up to be used as a study guide for those preparing for certification. The editors and authors of each section are experts in this field.
Doody's Review
"The book diverges from many other texts in the field of psychiatric and mental health care by exploring symptom profiles as opposed to DSM-5-TR structured content. While the book acknowledges DSM-5-TR diagnoses throughout, the contributors expertly maintain the focus on the symptoms that bring clients to seek treatment with advanced practice psychiatric nurses, such as sleep disturbances or problems with depression or anxiety, as opposed to DSM-5-TR diagnostic clusters."
-- Timothy Legg, PhD, PsyD, MSN, PMHNP-BC (Legg Counseling and Consulting Services) Doody's Review - previous edition
"This is an important book for advanced practice psychiatric nurses. It presents options that have not been readily available for the treatment of complex clients and provides overviews and instructions for integrating alternative and traditional therapies for psychiatric patients."
-- Cherie Howk, PhD, FNP-BC (Indiana State University) - Doody's Review - previous edition
"This text is a wonderful compilation of information that is needed within current advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing. The chapters are informative, have excellent references and provide up to the minute information that is grounded in evidence-based practices"
-- Barbara Jones Warren, PhD, RN, CNS-BC, PMH, FAAN - The Ohio State College of Nursing - previous edition
"There are few new books to direct PMH-APRN treatment options...Now, this book provides the path to integration of treatment options for the holistic care of psychiatric client by PMH-APRNs"
-- Doody's Medical Reviews
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