Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing

Master Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology & More with the Psychiatric-Mental Health Gold Standard.

About This Text

This foundational resource for PMH-APRN preparation across the lifespan integrates psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and complementary approaches. Chapters connect neurobiology and evidence to practical treatment planning, with algorithms and decision trees that mirror real-world evaluation and management.

"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 students’ scores were 92% this past year!” ―Dr. Cheryl Zauderer, PhD, CNM, PMHNP-BC, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Co-Coordinator, PMHNP Program, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing

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What’s New in the Third Edition

• New chapters on Legal and Ethical Decision Making; LGBTQ+ Care; and Resilience in Advanced Practice Mental Health Nurses
• Ten new case studies on specific syndromes
• Updated to reflect the latest ANCC certification exam and AACN Essentials

Why Students Love This Text

• 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

Why Instructors Love This Text

• Expanded instructor resources include a test bank and PowerPoints

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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).