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NRNP 6645: Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities
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Week 1: Foundations of Psychotherapy
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
—Sigmund Freud
While working with a patient in the late 1800s, Sigmund Freud discovered the health benefits of talking about emotions and illnesses. When Freud introduced his “talking cure” (fundamental psychotherapy), his efforts were met with considerable skepticism. However, as more and more psychiatrists learned that Freud’s methods brought about change in patients who suffered from a variety of mental health issues, his methods were adopted and refined. Today, psychotherapy is recognized as a viable treatment for a wide variety of mental health issues—many of which are examined throughout this course—and it is used in a variety of settings, such as individual, group, and family therapy.
This week, you explore the foundations of psychotherapy and consider its biological basis. You also examine the influence of culture, religion, and socioeconomics on psychotherapy treatments. Finally, you consider how legal and ethical considerations vary across psychotherapy settings.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Evaluate whether psychotherapy treatments have a biological basis
Analyze influences of culture, religion, and socioeconomics on personal perspectives of psychotherapy treatments
Compare legal and ethical considerations among individual, family, and group modalities of therapy
Explain how differences in legal and ethical considerations among individual, family, and group therapy modalities impact therapeutic approaches
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Getting Started: Analyzing Journal Articles
In this course, you will be asked to support your work with references to peer-reviewed, scholarly references. Scholarly journals publish papers by professional authors and experts in the field using a peer-review process to review the work and assure quality before publishing. The purpose of a scholarly journal is to provide accurate information for scholars and other researchers. The focus is on content rather than advertising, a direct contrast to popular media. Scholarly journals publish both primary source and secondary source papers; the former usually is noted as original research and the latter as reviews and commentaries. You may still use professional publications (e.g., professional competencies or practice guidelines) or textbooks, but these should be supporting resources in addition to the required peer-reviewed, scholarly resources. Popular resources that are open source, rely heavily on advertising, or are opinion pieces should be avoided or used only sparing for a specific purpose and identified as such.
Review the following resources for more information about scholarly articles and evaluating resources:
Carnegie Vincent Library​‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌​. (2013, March 22). Scholarly and popular sources [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/tN8S4CbzGXU
Walden Academic Skills Center. (2020). Critical reading for evaluation. https://waldenacademicskills.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/critical-reading-for-evaluation/
Walden Library. (2020). Evaluation resources: Introduction. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/evaluating/introduction
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PMHNP Study Support Lounge
he PMHNP Study Support Lounge is offered throughout the course as a place of academic refuge, where you can ask questions, offer insights, and interact with your peers. Your Instructor may also weigh in to provide global feedback to the group based on trends, common problems, and common strengths in student posts.
As a peer, you are encouraged to provide constructive, helpful feedback to your peers. Advanced practice nurses always benefit from the feedback of others.
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Your Study Support Lounge posts may be procedural (“How do I attach a Kaltura video to a Discussion post?”), conceptual (“How does this relate to the other therapy approaches we have studied?”), or analytical (“What do these diagnostic results actually mean in the context of this specific patient case?”). Although not mandatory, this is an opportunity to interact and study together as you navigate the assignments, so you are highly encouraged to take part in this activity. Full participation in activities like these is a statistically significant predictor of success.
To participate in this Discussion:
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Discussion: Biological Basis and Ethical/Legal Considerations of Psychotherapy
Many studies have found that psychotherapy is as effective as psychopharmacology in terms of influencing changes in behaviors, symptoms of anxiety, and changes in mental state. Changes influenced by psychopharmacology can be explained by the biological basis of treatments. But how does psychotherapy achieve these changes? Does psychotherapy share common neuronal pathways with psychopharmacology?
Psychotherapy is used with individuals as well as in groups or families. The idea of discussing confidential information with a patient in front of an audience is probably quite foreign to you. However, in group and family therapy, this is precisely what the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner does. In your role, learning how to provide this type of therapy within the limits of confidentiality is essential.
For this Discussion, you will consider whether psychotherapy also has a biological basis and analyze the ways in which legal and ethical considerations differ in the individual, family, a​‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌​nd group therapy settings.