The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner’s Handbook

This is more than a handbook. It is a revolution in psychiatric nursing practice—grounded in science, elevated by presence, and made actionable through SWEET’s signature tools and frameworks.

Written by Mardoche Sidor, MD, Annette Jarrett-Graham, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW, and the SWEET Institute, this guide equips psychiatric nurse practitioners with the strategies, templates, and frameworks to provide trauma-informed, person-centered, and community-rooted care—without burnout, fragmentation, or loss of purpose.

Whether you’re in the exam room, on the unit, or leading systems-level change, this handbook delivers:

- The Four Layers of Transformation: A roadmap from behavior to belief, insight to identity
- The Sustainable Change Model: For effective, empathic, and collaborative encounters
- Evidence-Based Tools: Daily trackers, case formulation templates, crisis response sheets, and reflection guides—ready to implement on Day 1
- Interdisciplinary Wisdom: Integrating psychiatry, nursing, neuroscience, psychodynamics, and public health
- Leadership Activation: Reignite your purpose, deepen your impact, and lead with clarity

If you’re a psychiatric nurse practitioner seeking to make lasting change, within your patients, your systems, and yourself, this book is your trusted companion.

Join the movement. Lead the future. Transform psychiatry—from the inside out.