Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Across the Life Span, 3rd Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780826185334 ISBN-10: 0826185339 Copyright: 2023 Edition: 3rd Editor: Tusaie, Kathleen R., Fitzpatrick, Joyce J., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 92 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Timothy Legg,  PhD, PsyD, MSN, PMHNP-BC  (Legg Counseling and Consulting Services) Description Now in its third edition, updating the previous version from 2017, this book provides a comprehensive overview of advanced practice psychiatric nursing, with an integration of psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and complementary/alternative care. It also includes a variety of useful add-ons, such as ebook access for students and educators. Purpose The book aims to provide readers with a comprehensive approach to the major knowledge areas required by advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurses. The beginning chapters provide a birds-eye view of the field and lead to foundational concepts of integrative practice. These chapters not only give readers an overview, but also generate enthusiasm for the overarching fields of psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and alternative approaches to treatment. Audience The book will be invaluable to advanced practice psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner students. It can also serve as a reference text for advanced practice psychiatric nurses in clinical practice seeking a current source of evidence-based information to help inform care decisions. The book is expertly edited, with 37 contributors across the advanced practice nursing spectrum (academia, practice, administration, and consultancy). Features The book contains 26 chapters. The chapters are comprehensive and provide readers with a variety of clinical tools immediately applicable to their education or practice. Some chapters present decision trees to help with treatment/management decisions, while others provide illustrations of techniques, links to standardized assessment instruments, consensus documents, and other resources to assist readers with risk stratification. Unique to each chapter is how well it provides an even treatment of psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and non-pharmacological/alternative therapies. Assessment 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. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the product's objectives met? 10 1-5 Does the website help achieve the purpose? 5 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this directed to an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 1 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 3 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 Rate the added value from the online version. 5 1-5 Is the online version easy to access? 4 1-5 Rate the ease of navigation/search. 4 1-5 Rate the pedagogic quality of images on the online version. 5 1-5 Rate the value of added audiovisual features online. 4 1-5 Is there sufficient use of hypertext links? 5 1-5 Are there hyperlinks from references to journal articles? 5 1-5 Is there appropriate use of features like bookmarking, printing/exporting? 4 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.