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Advanced Practice in Mental Health

Pushing Boundaries and Shaping the Future

  • 1st Edition - June 23, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Elaine Armstrong, Chelsea Bertie, Colin Grant, Shona Oliphant, Natasha Morris
  • Language: English

Written by advanced practitioners for advanced practitioners and students of advanced practice, this practical text examines advanced practice in mental health across the lifespan… Read more

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Written by advanced practitioners for advanced practitioners and students of advanced practice, this practical text examines advanced practice in mental health across the lifespan in a manner designed to define the advanced practitioner’s role in mental health, support clinical decision making, encourage reflection, and promote evidence-based practice. Aligned to the four pillars of advanced practice (clinical practice, education, leadership, and research), it promotes a holistic approach to both patients and care givers, and helps to improve staff experience and to support the advanced practice journey.

This book is the second in a new series of titles, Demystifying Advanced Practice, which will make accessible all aspects of advanced practice for the benefit of students and aspiring students, practitioners, educators, researchers, managers, and leaders.

Key features

  • Uses clinical guidelines and assessment tools to support decision making, including differential diagnosis at the advanced practice level
  • Covers key topics such as supervision, continuing professional development (CPD), addictions, neurodevelopmental disorders and challenges, and future opportunities for advanced practice in mental health
  • Discusses specific physical health monitoring for individuals in receipt of treatment from mental health services
  • Provides guidance in implementing and promoting evidence-based practice to support patient care, practitioners, and service development
  • Helps guide and support trainees and qualified advanced practitioners, promoting role clarity and supporting future development of advanced practice through genuine experiences, including challenges and opportunities
  • Approaches the role of the advanced practitioner across all disciplines, providing a consistent, supportive reference to those who are progressing through advanced practice training as well as practitioners, managers, and service leads
  • Includes contributions from a wide variety of mental health specialties, and explores the international approach to advanced practice

Readership

Advanced practitioner trainees and qualified advanced practitioners in mental health. Those involved in the strategic implementation of advanced practice in mental health settings. Academic institutions

Table of contents

SECTION I Clinical Practice

1. Advanced Practice Education

2. Clinical Assessment and Decision Making

3. Nonmedical Prescribing

4. Advanced Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

5. Advanced Practice in General Adult Mental Health Services

6. Advanced Practice in Older Adult Mental Health Services

7. Advanced Practice in Addiction Services

SECTION II Facilitation of Learning

8. Implementing the Facilitation of Learning Pillar in Practice

9. Continued Professional Development of Advanced Practitioners

SECTION III Leadership

10. Implementing the Leadership Pillar in Practice

11. Clinical Supervision for Advanced Practitioners

SECTION IV Evidence, Research and Development

12. Implementing the Evidence, Research and Development Pillar in Practice

13. Challenges and Future Opportunities for Role Development in Mental Health Services

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

EA

Elaine Armstrong

Affiliations and expertise
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Perth City CMHT Cairnwell, Perth Royal Infirmary, Taymount Terrace

CB

Chelsea Bertie

Affiliations and expertise
Mental Health Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Adult Community Mental Health Service in NHS Tayside, UK

CG

Colin Grant

Affiliations and expertise
Advance Nurse Practitioner Elderly Mental Health, Community Mental Health Elderly, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, UK

SO

Shona Oliphant

Affiliations and expertise
Mental Health Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Older Adult Community Mental Health Services, NHS Fife, UK

NM

Natasha Morris

Affiliations and expertise
Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Dementia) West Lothian Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team