Psychiatric advanced practice nursing : a biopsychosocial foundation for practice / Eris Field Perese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical framework of practice -- Neurobiological theory of psychiatric disorders : brain functioning, brain development, and prenatal and perinatal factors disrupting brain development -- Postnatal influences on development of psychopathology -- Communicating, interviewing, and assessing -- Case formulation and diagnosis, differential diagnoses, and developing a biopsychosocial plan of care -- Psychopharmacotherapy -- Psychotherapies -- Psychosocial interventions -- Response to stressors : bridging normal responses and psychiatric disorders -- Phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder -- Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder -- Delirium and dementia -- Dual diagnosis -- Personality disorders -- Prevention of psychiatric disorders.