Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Resources

A collection of resources curated for psychiatric-mental health nurses: From toolkits to graduate school listings, the APNA Resource Center is your first access point for information on topics across the spectrum of psychiatric-mental health nursing.

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Resource Library

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthEating Disorders

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders

Organization committed to providing free peer support services, education. Resources include webinars, blogs, ED helpline, and book recommendations.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthEating Disorders

Project HEAL

Provides educational, financial, and medical support to those with EDs to increase equitable access to care. Resources include support groups, assessment programs, treatment placement, and blogs.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthEating Disorders

Academy for Eating Disorders (AED)

AED helps connect and educate health professionals on the latest ED research. Resources include videos, publications, special interest groups, webinars & CEs, and medical pearls.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthEating Disorders

Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (FEAST)

An international nonprofit organization of and for parents and caregivers of loved ones affected by eating disorders offering informational resources, webinars, parent programming, and supportive forums.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthEating Disorders

National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)

NEDA supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst for prevention, cures, and access to quality care.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Facts for Families: Attachment Disorders

Resource for families about Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder with treatment recommendations.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Advancement in the child attachment interview and the child and adolescent reflective functioning scale using a PDM-2 framework

This article investigates the informative power of the child attachment interview and the child and adolescent reflective functioning scale for overall understanding of mental functioning and personality with two clinical

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Attachment measures in middle childhood and adolescence

A systematic review of 54 studies. The Child Attachment Interview has the best psychometric properties of the interview and projective measures, and the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment the

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Early TRAuma-Related Disorders Questionnaire (ETRADQ)

A caregiver report developed to assess attachment disorders in school-age children based on DSM-5 criteria. This study validated this instrument.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Reactive Attachment Disorder and attachment theory from infancy to adolescence

Two meta-analyses, one addressing convergent validity of RAD assessment instrumentation developed by authors and the other links between RAD and internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Attachment- and Emotion-Focused Parenting Interventions for Child and Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors

Attachment and emotion-focused parenting interventions that targeted child mental health were significantly more effective than those that did not in reducing externalizing behavior and internalizing behavior for children aged

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

StatPearls Reactive Attachment Disorder

Describes the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of reactive attachment disorder and stresses the role of team-based interprofessional care for affected patients