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Cheryl Puntil, RN, BS, MN Biography |
Cheryl
Puntil is a clinical nurse specialist in
psychiatric mental health nursing and 
practices
at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. Her work is complicated in
that she manages the nursing care of complicated psychiatric and
medical patients. She received her bachelor of science degree in
nursing at St. Teresa and received her training at the world
famous Mayo Clinic. Cheryl received her master of nursing degree
at UCLA, is listed in the 1990 edition of Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Universities, and had an extensive training
internship at the Senior Health and Peer Counseling Center.
Cheryl is certified in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in Beverly Hills.
Cheryl has seventeen years experience in psychiatric mental health nursing, fifteen of those in geriatric psychiatry. She specializes in assessing mental status, group psychotherapy, family systems and psychodynamic psychotherapy with the elderly. Cheryl has been interested in destigmatizing ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) and has worked hard at educating professionals and the public about the therapy’s effective treatment of psychiatric disorders, especially depression.
Cheryl published a paper on "Resistance" and has written an educational pamphlet on ECT. She spoke in North Carolina at the first National Nursing ECT Conference and recently at the Neuropsychiatric Institute’s ECT Department’s open house. She is a volunteer speaker for the Alzheimer’s Association and believes in the prevention of illness, being pro-active, and becoming educated, to maintain one’s mental health.
EDUCATION:
BS: College of St. Teresa 1980 MN: UCLA 1990 Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy:
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute
POSITIONS:
Attending Nurse Geriatric Medical Psychiatry UCLA NPI-H Volunteer Speaker for Alzheimer’s Association Co-Chair Education, Editor of newsletter for California Association
of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses in Advanced Practice
RESEARCH:
Published Articles on:
Resistance
National lecturer on ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)
EXPERTISE:
Mental status assessment Group psychotherapy Family systems ECT Psychodynamic psychotherapy with the elderly Depression in the elderly (affective disorders) Psychopharmacology Dementia and caregiver needs Nursing care of the elderly with mental illness Transference and Counter-transference issues Appropriate disposition and living needs of the elderly with mental illness
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