Take My Liberty NURS 753 Class

Liberty's catalog describes NURS 753 as an overview of the theories, frameworks, modalities and best practices behind psychotherapeutic treatment of mental health disorders across the lifespan. It integrates evidence-based psychotherapies with case formulation and treatment of disorders, symptoms and issues, and it weaves cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing through case-based learning.

In the published guide, Module/Week 1 reads the ANA and APNA scope and standards, Carlat's opening chapters and parts of the DSM and Sadock, and asks for the checklist, introductions and a Mental Health Policy Paper worth 100 points. Module/Week 2 turns to Wheeler on the therapeutic relationship and assessment and asks for an Evidence-Based Article Review, also 100.

Module/Week 3 asks for WebEx Class Presentation 1, and Module/Week 4 for Case Analysis Evaluation 1, worth 100 each. Module/Week 5 is the midterm.

Module/Week 6 asks for Case Analysis Evaluation 2, and Module/Week 7 for Case Analysis Evaluation 3 and WebEx Class Presentation 2. The course closes with a final exam carrying 200 points, read for in Wheeler's closing chapters on trauma and termination.

Taking NURS 753 starts by mapping the course's two exam weeks and two live presentations, then placing every written item ahead of them. The policy paper is written first, so the opening week goes to Carlat and the standards.

The policy paper takes a current mental health policy issue, such as parity enforcement, the 988 crisis line, scope of practice for psychiatric nurse practitioners or telehealth prescribing of controlled substances, and analyzes its effect on access and practice.

The article review appraises a recent trial or meta-analysis of a psychotherapy, usually CBT or MI, so it builds the evidence base the case analyses will use.

Where your section grades the case analysis evaluations in writing, each is prepared as a full case formulation: presenting problem, history, DSM diagnosis, a formulation in the chosen model, treatment goals, interventions session by session and outcome measures. Sections that give them as timed Canvas tests keep them with the student.

For the two WebEx presentations, the writer prepares slides on the assigned modality, a demonstration script where your professor asks for one, speaker notes and likely questions. You present live.

NURS 753 is assigned to a psychiatric nurse practitioner with a doctorate who provides psychotherapy as well as medication management and is trained in CBT and motivational interviewing. The course asks for the reasoning that person uses in every therapy session.

The writer knows Wheeler's integrative approach, the cognitive model and its techniques, the spirit and core skills of MI, and the evidence for other modalities the course surveys, such as interpersonal therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and trauma-focused approaches.

Case formulations are written the way supervisors expect: a clear link from the client's history and beliefs to the maintaining cycle, and from the cycle to the chosen interventions.

A second psychiatric clinician with psychotherapy training reviews the case analyses, the article review and the presentation materials before delivery.

Every case is a composite created for teaching. No real client is described, and your practice setting is never named in any draft.

The first sticking point is the shift from diagnosis to therapy. Students who are comfortable with DSM criteria often find case formulation unfamiliar, and their analyses describe a diagnosis rather than explaining what keeps the problem going.

The second is technique. CBT and MI each have specific skills, such as Socratic questioning, thought records, behavioral activation, reflective listening and eliciting change talk, and case analyses lose points when they name the therapy without showing the techniques in use.

The third is the policy paper in the very first week, which surprises students expecting a clinical start and requires current, accurate policy sources.

The fourth is timing. Case analyses fall on either side of the midterm, and Module/Week 7 carries both a case analysis and a live presentation just before the final.

The last is the live presentations themselves. A modality demonstrated poorly on WebEx, or slides read aloud, loses points that solid preparation would keep.

Hand NURS 753 over before Module/Week 1 and the policy paper is ready in the first days. The article review follows before Module/Week 2, and the first presentation package before Module/Week 3.

Case Analysis Evaluation 1, where written, arrives before Module/Week 4. Nothing written lands in Module/Week 5, the midterm week.

Case Analysis Evaluation 2 arrives before Module/Week 6, and both Case Analysis Evaluation 3 and the second presentation package arrive before Module/Week 7 opens, so that week is for rehearsal. Module/Week 8 is left for the final.

The quote lists the policy paper, the article review, the written case analyses your section uses and both presentation packages, each with its Module/Week. Exams and live delivery are never on it, which keeps the figure below that of a fully written course.

If you are already in the course, send what has been graded and the plan continues, keeping your chosen modalities and cases consistent.