title: Achieving Full Scope of Practice Readiness Using Evidence for Psychotherapy Teaching in Web and Hybrid Approaches in Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing Education.
abstract: Radical changes in role, education, and practice have affected how education of advance practice nurses and practice deliverables occur.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article examines the effects of distance education upon the teaching/learning of psychotherapy in integrating Web-based technology and platforms.
  
  
  METHODS
  With the advent and proliferation of online programs of study, the question begs: How do distance-linked programs successfully introduce, practice, and supervise one-to-one and group psychotherapy training?
  
  
  RESULTS
  By employing evidence-based education strategies, technology, and strong interpersonal skills and evidence-based therapies, a charter Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Doctor of Nursing Practice program paved an innovative and successful path.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In that program, they prepared their students for full scope of practice, upon graduation, inclusive of psychotherapy as well as the other highly demanding and compressed requirements of the 3-year program. This article explores that journey and its recommendations for application derived from this 2010 cohort.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Kathleen T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: McCoy
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education*; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*
keywords: Adobe Connect; Advanced Practice Nursing Education; COPE Manualized Training; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Doctor of Nursing Practice; Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurse; Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist; Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; Quality Matters©; hybrid education; online program; psychotherapy