1042-16:  Teaching Psychotherapy in Graduate PMHNP Program Part II: An In-Depth Workshop for Faculty (The 5 W's of the 4th P: Who, What, When, Where, Why of Teaching Psychotherapy in Graduate Schools)

Psychotherapy, a foundation of advanced practice psychiatric nursing is ‘our fourth P.’ This in-depth, interactive workshop will feature a panel of expert graduate faculty in PMHNP programs discussing how they incorporate psychotherapy content and creatively leverage community psychiatric resources to provide quality clinical experiences for their graduate psychiatric nursing students.

Presenters: Pamela Lusk, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP; Kathleen Wheeler, Ph.D., PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN; Candice Knight, PhD, EdD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHNP-BC; Mary Moller, DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN

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 18 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

Session Outcomes
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Debate the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed by the PMHNP to provide psychotherapy.
2. Discuss various face to face, hybrid, and online individual, group and family psychotherapy learning and training opportunities that can be employed in PMHNP programs.
3. Facilitate a forum where individual, family and group psychotherapy PMHNP learning opportunities and resources can be shared. 

Keywords: Graduate Education, Psychotherapy

Continuing Nursing Education
1.25 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, 2016
3:30pm - 5:30pm

Release Date: December 16, 2016
The contact hours for this session expire:  November 30, 2019