MaryLou Mylant, PhD, PMHNP-BC                   

Professor  

Family Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner                  

West River Nursing
Room 26
Rapid City, SD 57701

Telephone: (605)-394-6617
E-Mail: Marylou.Mylant@sdstate.edu 

I completed my PhD in Nursing from The University of Texas at Austin in 1988; the topic of my dissertation being coping among young adult children of alcoholics. I have always practiced in the area of child and adolescent health and currently practice as a family psychiatric nurse practitioner. I am also a child play therapist and trauma specialist. The population I have worked with and focused my research on has been children at risk: child abuse, intimate partner violence, and trauma, as well as, protective factors such as infant attachment.

I am currently Professor and Grant (HRSA) Manager of the PhD program, which also has a focus on vulnerable populations. I teach at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels in the areas of psychiatric and family mental health nursing and nursing research. I am actively involved in research with two of my published and most recent research studies cited below. Memberships and affiliations include the Sigma Theta Tau, Midwest Nursing Research Society, American Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, International Society of Psychiatric Nurses, and the South Dakota Nursing Association.

Mylant, M. & Mann, C. (in press). Intimate partner violence and current sexual trauma among high-risk adolescent mothers. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, special edition on culture.

Mylant, M., Ide, B., Cuevas, E., & Meehan, M. (2002).  Adolescent children of alcoholics: Vulnerable or resilient?  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 8, 57-64.