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ADVANCED PRACTICE PSYCHIATRIC NURSING: INTEGRATING
PSYCHOTHERAPY, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, AND COMPLEMENTARY
AND ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN, SECOND
EDITION
Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC, is a professor 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 ther- apy
(CBT), 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 has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator in five funded research
projects and has received many awards and honors.
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is 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. She holds an adjunct position as professor, Department of
Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. She earned a BSN (Georgetown
University), an MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing (the Ohio State University, Columbus), 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 and a fellow
in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of
the Year Award 18 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 edits the journals
Applied Nursing Research, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the
official journal of the National League for Nursing. She has published sev- eral books with Springer
Publishing Company, including three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR).
, ADVANCED PRACTICE
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology,
and Complementary and Alternative Approaches
Across the Life Span
Second Edition
Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Editors
© Springer Publishing Company
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ADVANCED PRACTICE PSYCHIATRIC NURSING: INTEGRATING
PSYCHOTHERAPY, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, AND COMPLEMENTARY
AND ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN, SECOND
EDITION
Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC, is a professor 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 ther- apy
(CBT), 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 has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator in five funded research
projects and has received many awards and honors.
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is 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. She holds an adjunct position as professor, Department of
Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. She earned a BSN (Georgetown
University), an MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing (the Ohio State University, Columbus), 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 and a fellow
in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of
the Year Award 18 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 edits the journals
Applied Nursing Research, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the
official journal of the National League for Nursing. She has published sev- eral books with Springer
Publishing Company, including three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR).
, ADVANCED PRACTICE
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology,
and Complementary and Alternative Approaches
Across the Life Span
Second Edition
Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Editors
© Springer Publishing Company
