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Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice
Psychiatric Nurse
Second Edition
Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN
ISBN: 978-0-8261-3625-1
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,Contents
1. The Nurse Psychotherapist and a Framework for Practice
Table 1.1 Basic Education, Orientation, and Setting of Psychotherapy Practitioners 6
Table 1.2 Comparison of Benner’s Model and the Stages of Learning 7
Table 1.3 Timeline of the History of the Nurse Psychotherapist 8
Figure 1.1 Paradigms of care 9
Figure 1.2 Cyclical psychodynamics of a person with borderline personality disorder 10
Figure 1.3 Therapeutic window of arousal 11
Figure 1.4 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 12
Table 1.4 Cultural Competence: Have You Asked the Right Questions? 13
Figure 1.5 Adaptive information processing model 14
Figure 1.6 Treatment hierarchy framework for practice 15
Figure 1.7 Trauma and resource balance 16
Figure 1.8 Spiral of treatment process 17
Figure 1.9 Ms. A’s psychotherapy outcomes 18
Appendix 1.1 Suggestions for Presenting a Case 19
Appendix 1.2 Weekly Plan for Increasing Resources 21
Appendix 1.3 Weekly Plan 23
Appendix 1.4 Treatment and Case Management 24
Appendix 1.5 Stage I 29
Appendix 1.6 Stage II 30
Appendix 1.7 Safe-Place Exercise 31
Appendix 1.8 Container Exercise 32
2. The Neurophysiology of Trauma and Psychotherapy
Figure 2.1 Continuum of stress/trauma 33
Figure 2.2 Neuron and receptor site 34
Figure 2.3 Stages of brain development, regulation, and memory 35
Table 2.1 Attachment Schemas 36
Figure 2.4 Therapeutic window of arousal 37
Figure 2.5 Structures of the brain 38
Figure 2.6 Cerebral cortex and brainstem 39
Figure 2.7 Right- and left-hemisphere functions 40
Figure 2.8 Trauma response pathway 41
3. Assessment and Diagnosis
Table 3.1 Assessment Questions: Continuum of Openness 42
Table 3.2 Ego Functions for Assessment 43
Table 3.3 Observer-Rated Ego Function Assessment Tool 44
Table 3.4 A Fragment of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems 45
Table 3.5 A Portion of the World Health Organization’s Spirituality, Religiousness, and Personal
Beliefs Field-Test Instrument 46
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Table 3.6 Commonly Used Clinical Rating Scales 47
Figure 3.1 An elaborated genogram with demographic, occupational, and major life event
information 48
Appendix 3.1 Outline of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Database 49
Appendix 3.2 Sample Assessment Form 54
Appendix 3.3 Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) 57
Appendix 3.4 The Impact of Event Scale (IES) 60
Appendix 3.5 Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZSRDS) 61
Appendix 3.6 Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) (Short Form) 62
Appendix 3.7 Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) 63
Appendix 3.8 Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) 64
Appendix 3.9 Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) 66
Appendix 3.10 Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7) 67
Appendix 3.11 Yale-Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) 68
Appendix 3.12 Quality-of-Life Scale (QOL) 70
Appendix 3.13 CAGE Questionnaire 72
Appendix 3.14 Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST)–Revised 73
Appendix 3.15 Child Attachment Interview (CAI) Protocol 74
Appendix 3.16 Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale 75
4. The Initial Contact and Maintaining the Frame
Figure 4.1 Treatment hierarchy and continuum of therapeutic communication. 77
Table 4.1 Selected Therapeutic Communication Techniques 78
Appendix 4.1 Notice of Privacy Practices 79
Appendix 4.2 Contract 82
Appendix 4.3 Process Note 84
Appendix 4.4 Progress Note 85
Appendix 4.5 Process Recording 86
Appendix 4.6 Sample Termination Letter 89
5. Supportive and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Figure 5.1 Cyclical psychodynamics 90
Table 5.1 Freud’s Psychosexual Stages 91
Table 5.2 Mahler’s Stages of Separation–Individuation 92
Table 5.3 Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages 93
Table 5.4 Comparison of Classical Psychodynamic Therapy With Relational Psychodynamic
Therapy 94
Table 5.5 Selected Meta-Analytic Studies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 95
Table 5.6 Practice Guidelines for Psychiatric Disorders 96
Figure 5.2 Psychodynamic case formulation 97
Table 5.7 Basic Strategies of Dynamic Supportive Therapy 98
Figure 5.3 Case formulation and psychodynamic therapy 99
6. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
Table 6.1 EMDR Research: Selected Randomized Clinical Trials and Meta-Analyses 100
Table 6.2 EMDR Clinical Applications 103
Table 6.3 Eight-Phase Protocol for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing 105
Figure 6.1 Components of EMDR 106
Appendix 6.1 Lightstream Exercise 107
Appendix 6.2 Circle of Strength 108
7. Motivational Interviewing
Table 7.1 Meta-Analyses of Motivational Interviewing With Substance Use, Smoking, and
Health-Related Behaviors 109
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8. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Table 8.1 Evidence-Based Research for CBT 110
Table 8.2 Socratic Dialogue 111
Table 8.3 Socratic Dialogue Basic Rules 112
Table 8.4 Cognitive Distortions 113
Table 8.5 Steps in Cognitive Restructuring 114
Table 8.6 Checklist of Patient Outcomes for Contingency Contract 115
Table 8.7 Maladaptive Schemas 116
Table 8.8 Hierarchy for Driving Fear of Bridges 117
Table 8.9 CBT Therapist Website Resources for Specific Populations 118
Appendix 8.1 Automatic Thought Record 119
9. Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Table 9.1 Interactive Dialogue: Evidence of Abnormal Grief Task 120
11. Group Therapy
Table 11.1 Examples of Theoretical Approaches and Focus of Approach 121
Table 11.2 Evidence-Based Research for Group Psychotherapy 123
Table 11.3 Phases of Group Formation/Development 124
12. Family Therapy
Table 12.1 Four Major Family Therapy Approaches 125
13. Stabilization for Trauma and Dissociation
Figure 13.1 The spectrum of traumatic response 126
Table 13.1 Diseases and Disorders of Trauma 127
Table 13.2 Assessment/Outcome Instruments for Dissociation 128
Table 13.3 Assessment/Outcome Instruments for Trauma 129
Appendix 13.1 SPRINT 05-30-13 130
Appendix 13.2 Progressive Muscle Relaxation 131
14. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Trauma
Figure 14.1 Characteristics of the DBT therapist 133
Figure 14.2 Behavioral chain analysis worksheet 134
Table 14.1 Skills Modules in DBT 135
Figure 14.3 Sample diary card for standard DBT treatment 136
Figure 14.4 Sample behavioral chain analysis for teen conflict with mother 137
Figure 14.5 Sample behavioral chain analysis for medication adherence 138
Figure 14.6 Behavioral chain analysis for Mr. M 139
Figure 14.7 Mr. M’s early diary card 140
15. Psychopharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy
Appendix 15.1 Collaborative Agreement 141
Appendix 15.2 Collaborative Agreement (Optional Language Added) 142
Appendix 15.3 Pharmacotherapy Consultation and Collaboration Request Form 143
16. Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Addictions and Related Disorders
Table 16.1 Worldwide Prevalence, Health Risks, and Economic Burden of Addictions 145
Table 16.2 U.S. Prevalence, Health Risks, and Economic Burden of Addictions 146
Figure 16.1 Current, binge, and heavy alcohol use among persons (age 12 years and older) by
age group 147
Table 16.3 Guiding Principles of Recovery 148
Table 16.4 Principles of Effective Treatment for Addictions 149
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