Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Nursing Practice

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This is a manual on integrating cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) into advanced practice psychiatric nursing. The distinguished contributors provide an overview of CBT and how it fits into nursing practice and theory. The book incorporates chapters on psychiatric conditions most commonly treated with CBT, including depression and anxiety, as well as chronic pain and substance abuse. The special needs of families, couples, the elderly, and groups are also addressed. Contributors include Sister Callista Roy and Bruce Zahn. This is a valuable text for students as well as a reference and resource book for clinicians.

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Sharon Morgillo Freeman Clevenger (MSN, MA, PMHCNS-BC) is CEO of the Indiana Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  Sharon is Associate faculty at Indiana Purdue University in Ft. Wayne. She has published widely in CBT and lectures internationally. Her work has been translated into five languages. She is board certified as an Advanced Practice Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, with prescriptive authority, in Indiana, and is board certified as an Advanced Practice Addiction Registered Nurse by the International Nurses Society on Addiction.  Sharon completed her Master's degree in Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, and her Master's degree in Psychology is through the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Il. 

Arthur Freeman (EdD, ABPP), is visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at Governors State University, University Park, IL, a clinical professor in the Department of Psychology at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Director of Training at Sharidan Shores Care and Rehabilitation Center in Chicago. He is a Distinguished Founding Fellow at the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Freeman has published widely in CBT and has lectured internationally. His work has been translated into twelve languages. He holds diplomas in clinical, family, and behavioral psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of APA. Springer Publishing Company has published numerous of his books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Nursing Practice, co-edited with Sharon Morgillo Freeman (2004), Cognition and Psychotherapy, now in its second edition, coedited with Michael J. Mahoney, Paul DeVito, and Donna Martin (2004) andBorderline Personality Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments, coedited with Mark Stone and Donna Martin (2004, paperback 2007).