Psychotherapy in Advanced Practice Nursing

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This asynchronous course focuses on content that facilitates the development of the psychotherapist role of a psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse of the counseling role of advanced practice nurses in other specialties when taken as elective. Psychological theories, models, therapies, and treatment strategies that address the requisite knowledge and skills needed to foster therapeutic advanced practice nurse-client/patient relationships across the lifespan are examined with emphasis on target populations. Analyses of treatment/intervention strategies within various theories and models that may be used with particular clients/patients, families, and groups are explored. Personal and professional orientations, values, and behavioral insights are examined throughout the course to promote increasing depth and breadth of understanding of using oneself as a therapeutic tool.