Nurse Psychotherapist and a Framework for Practice
STUDY GUIDE
This quiz will cover the following topics, which relate to psychotherapy with individuals in the Wheeler textbook and the Fisher textbook excerpts:
Topics
1. The Nurse Psychotherapist and a Framework for Practice
1. Confidentiality Limits in Psychotherapy: Ethics Checklists for Mental Health Professionals
1. Assessment and Diagnosis
1. The Initial Contact and Maintaining the Frame
1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1. Supportive and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
1. Stabilization for Trauma and Dissociation
1. Motivational Interviewing
1. Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Addictions and Related Disorders
Wheeler, K. (Eds.). (2014). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
1. Chapter 1, “The Nurse Psychotherapist and a Framework for Practice”
1. Chapter 3, “Assessment and Diagnosis”
1. Chapter 4, “The Initial Contact and Maintaining the Frame”
1. Chapter 5, “Supportive and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”
1. Chapter 7, “Motivational Interviewing” (pp.299-312)
1. Chapter 8, “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy”
1. Chapter 13, “Stabilization for Trauma and Dissociation”
1. Chapter 16, “Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Addictions and Related Disorders”
Fisher, M. A. (2016). Introduction. In Confidentiality limits in psychotherapy: Ethics checklists for mental health professionals (pp. 3–12). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/14860-001
Fisher, M. A. (2016). The ethical ABCs of conditional confidentiality. In Confidentiality limits in psychotherapy: Ethics checklists for mental health professionals (pp. 13–25). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/14860-002
Question 1
1. After informing a prospective patient about limits of confidentiality, the patient consents to the “conditions” of confidentiality and signs an informed consent form. Several weeks later, a lawyer representing the patient’s spouse for a court case, asks the PMHNP for the disclosure of information about the patient. The PMHNP should:
| A. | Disclose all patient information as requested | |
| B. | Refuse to disclose any confidential information | |
| C. | Limit disclosure to the extent legally possible | |
| D. | Ignore the request based on ethical reasons |