Psychiatric Case Studies for Advanced Practice

Get a solid foundation for providing evidence-based treatments and patient-centered psychiatric care, with Psychiatric Case Studies for Advanced Practice.

Created to support advanced practice nurses treating psychiatric cases, this practical, easy-to-read reference consists of nearly 100 case studies that offer a real-world display of the most common psychiatric disorders. Whether you are a psychiatric, family, emergency or general practice nurse or student, this is your map to ensuring that your clinical decision-making skills are sharp and based on proven analyses and protocols.

Absorb the expert analysis of real-life psychiatric patients from a wide variety of ages, backgrounds, and conditions . . .

• Up-to-date diagnostic content from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), that includes DSM-5’s newer diagnoses—gender dysphoria, binge eating disorder and autism spectrum, plus current treatments for alcohol and opiate addiction.
• Drug tables that provide easy-to-locate pharmaceutical data.
• Sample routine screening tools that offer at-your-fingertips checklists and handouts to support patient treatment.
• Clinical pearls that highlight vital care information.
• Presents real-world child, adolescent, adult and geriatric inpatient and outpatient psychiatric cases that ground your skills in the holistic perspective, emphasizing problem-based learning and an evidence-based practice.
• Clear, succinct case studies that use a simple template format for quick-and-easy reading, organized by age and indexed by diagnostic category for easy reference.
• Cases presented in a standard format: chief complaint, history, mental status, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment plan and rationale for treatment prescribed—with questions at the end that guide you to create a diagnosis using the DSM-5.
• Cases addressing a wide range of disorders, including neurodevelopmental, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, bipolar, depressive, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma and stressor-related disorders, somatic, feeding, eating, dissociative, sleep-wake and elimination disorders, sexual dysfunction, impulse-control and conduct disorders, and more.
• Coverage that serves all experience levels and a variety of treatment settings—counseling centers, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, inpatient psychiatric units, hospital consultation and liaison services.
• Treatments and their rationales that represent the current evidence-based research—treatment sections divided into psychopharmacology, diagnostic tests, referral, psychotherapy and psychoeducation.
• Supplemental teaching tool for graduate psychiatric nurse practitioner/APN programs.