Forming and belonging to a peer consultation group for your own mental health and creating a psychotherapy practice that addresses specific topics.
One of the visions for this column when it was created was to provide a forum for those of you who are advanced practice psychiatric/mental health nurses when you are seeking ideas and recommendations about setting up and conducting your practices. As I write the column I use a variety of sources for ideas about the content. One source will be the list of questions I have been asked when I've spoken on the issues of private practice. Another source will be the e-mail questions that I receive from you (and I encourage you to write to me when you have a question!). Yet another source will be the types of issues I've dealt with in my own practice over the past 25 years. As I begin this column, one of the recommendations that I have found invaluable in my own practice is belonging to a peer group of P/MH APRNs.
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