Associate Professor of Nursing
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Phone: 215-641-6473 Email: bshaeffe@mc3.edu
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- ANCC Certifications
- Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
- Clinical Practice
- Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Out-patient Services—Lenape Valley Foundation, Doylestown, Pa.
- Professional Memberships
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- National League of Nursing
- Sigma Theta Tau
- Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing
- Clinical Sites
- Norristown State Hospital
- Lenape Valley Foundation Partial Hospitalization Program
- Northwest Human Services, Lansdale, PA
- Cognitive Disorders
- Communication/Group/Family (Will open in a new window.)
- Mood Disorders (Will open in a new window as a pdf file.)
- Psychotic Disorders (Will open in a new window as a pdf file.)
- Psychotropic Drugs
- Somatization (Will open in a new window as a pdf file.)
- I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg (Account of therapy with a young woman suffering from schizophrenia)
- The Divided Self by R.D. Laing (Unique description of the schizophrenic experience by this well-known poet and psychiatrist)
- Darkness Visible by William Styron (This famous author's description of his experience with depression)
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (This famous author's description of depression)
- An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison (This author is a psychiatrist who describes her own experience with Bipolar Illness)
- Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber (Describes the experience of Dissociative Identity Disorder)
- Emergence: Labeled Autism and Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin (Unique description of this author's own experiences as an autistic individual.)
- A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage by Beth Kephart (Pervasive Developmental Disorder)
- Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography by Donna Williams (Autism)
- Girl, Interrupted by Suanna Kaysen (Experience of a young woman in a mental hospital)
- Mind, Medicine and Miracles by Bernie Siegel, M.D. (Mind-body-spirit as related to cancer)
- The Relaxation Response by Herbert Bensen (Classic discussion of stress/relaxation)
- Rituals of Healing by Jeanne Achterberg,PhD.; Barbara Dossey, RN,MS,FAAN; Leslie Kolkmeier,RN,MEd. (Hands-on stress reducers)
- National Institutes of Mental Health (Research/Education)
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Advocacy/education)
- National Parkinson Foundation (Education/Advocacy)
- Information and research re general mental health topics
- Consumer focused info re depression
- Consumer focused info re schizophrenia
- Consumer focused on general mental health topics
- Advocacy/support group for Attention Deficit Disorder
- Site of the Autism Society of America
- National Domestic Violence Hotline (interesting links)
- American Humane Society (Protection of children&animals)
- General Mental Health Topics
- National Mental Health Association