1033-16: Neuroscience & Psychotherapy: Implications for Practice

Neuroscience provides understanding of the interconnectedness of an individual’s lived experience with their genetic and epigenetic self and has the potential to provide the clinician insight into the patient’s present condition presenting a clearer path to treatment and recovery by providing rationale and guidance regarding psychotherapy selection and application.

Presenter: Kathrene Carter Brendell, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC 

Disclosures: The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.  

Session Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Target Audience: APRN

Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1.  Utilize neuroscientific principles to explain the efficacy of psychotherapy.
2.  Apply neuroscientific research when making psychotherapy selections to treat a patient’s condition.
3.  Knowledge of neuroscientific research when making psychotherapy selections to treat a patient’s condition.

Keywords: Neuroscience, Genetic, Epigenetics, Psychotherapy, Practice

Continuing Nursing Education
1.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately.  You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 30th Annual Conference
Hartford, Connecticut
Wednesday, October 19
1:15pm - 3:15pm 

Release Date: April 24, 2017
The contact hours for this session expire: November 30, 2019