Patricia A. Brandt, PhD, RN Professor Interim Chair-FCN Family and Child Nursing 357262 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7262 Email Address: pbrandt@u.washington.edu

Teaching: Patti is especially interested in assisting other's learning of ways to apply professional and consumer knowledge to clinical situations. Recent approaches can be found in graduate psychosocial courses and an undergraduate family course. Examples are: a standard family assessment oriented scenario in which trained actors represent the family and youth with ADHD; and a WEB-based intervention module that focuses on a teen with an eating disorder and her family. These learning experiences also emphasize the influence of the family's culture and the community and system responses to the condition. Patti believes that the learner brings her/his own strengths and interests and thus, builds opportunities for these to be expressed by students in their course projects.

Research: Patti's research has emphasized the population of children particularly school age through adolescence who have dual emotional and chronic physical or developmental health conditions and their families. She has been involved in both descriptive and empirically oriented intervention studies in which either the parent had the chronic condition or the child had the chronic condition. Her content interest is in enhancing the youth and family's healing and reconstruction of their strengths to deal with the challenges they face in response to the health and family's context. Her current methodological interest is to use both narrative-based and evidence based strategies to understand the meaning and experiences of youth with chronic conditions and their family's interactions. She has had private foundation and federal grant support for her research and has predominantly functioned in an investigative role with a team of researchers.

Practice: Patti is a certified child and adolescent psychosocial nurse practitioner with prescriptive authority. She has had an ongoing clinical contract with Children's Hospital and functions on the interdisciplinary psychosocial consultation service with social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. This service responds to consult requests for all the services in the hospital with Patti working particularly closely with Endocrine service. Her predominant therapeutic modality is constructivist which is oriented to building on one's strengths and meaning through solution oriented or narrative therapies. Patti provides "brief therapy' predominantly of 2-3 months duration and uses individual, group, and family oriented approaches.

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Current Projects

• Oral Health Status and Habits of Young Children with Developmental Delay  (Co-Investigator)
• Targeting Everett's Health Disparities   (Key Personnel)

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