Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners’ Confessions
It’s hard to believe that we have officially wrapped up our fourth season of Practical for Your Practice and I have to admit, this season feels a little extra special because it reinforced (over and over again) how NOT alone I am when it comes to the art of being a perfectly imperfect EBP provider. In eleven episodes and across topics from insomnia treatment, to Written Exposure Therapy, to implementing Unified Protocol groups, to suicide postvention, our brave guests met the vulnerability challenge and offered up their tales of imperfection and how they recovered from clinical missteps. And maybe even more important, how they grew as a provider by facing the tough situations that didn’t go by the book… or manual as it were.
Listen to the full discussion here: EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners Confessions.
The “why” behind this “EBP Confessional” theme for season 4 was to remind ALL of us that mistakes happen and it is ok to NOT have everything go perfectly well, especially when learning a new EBP. We hoped to reduce some of the anxiety and fear we all have when flexing new EBP muscles and we are grateful to our guest SME’s for sharing some of the bad and the ugly that, while unpleasant, helped shape the providers they are today. These lessons learned from the clinically unexpected or provider fumbles are invaluable and we hope perhaps inspired some listeners to go forth and share imperfections and, ideally, get support through consultation or by just talking through the missteps with a colleague.
So what are some takeaways from this final episode of Confessionals? Here was our actionable intel.
- Mismatches happen: : “Sometimes we are not the right match for every patient. And that is ok”.
- Own the misstep:: “If you make a mistake, apologize.”
- Learn and repair: “We can use our missteps or things going sideways as an opportunity to open a dialogue about that. "How do we work together and move forward past this?"
- Utilize consultation. “If you put your foot in your mouth or you say something inappropriate, consultation can really help you get out of that. And really, any of the scenarios that we've talked about throughout this entire season, all of the confessionals have really potentially benefited from consultation.”
The episode ended with Carin asking for a “consultation woo-hoo?” to reinforce we never have to worry and repair missteps alone. And I couldn’t agree more. So here we go, on three… ONE, TWO, THREE “CONSULTATION WOO HOO”!
Until next season…
Listen to the full discussion here: EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners Confessions.
If you have a question or topic you want to suggest for a future episode, feel free to drop us a voice-mail message at https://www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p.
The opinions in CDP Staff Perspective blogs are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science or the Department of Defense.
Jenna Ermold, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Senior Military Behavioral Health Psychologist at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
It’s hard to believe that we have officially wrapped up our fourth season of Practical for Your Practice and I have to admit, this season feels a little extra special because it reinforced (over and over again) how NOT alone I am when it comes to the art of being a perfectly imperfect EBP provider. In eleven episodes and across topics from insomnia treatment, to Written Exposure Therapy, to implementing Unified Protocol groups, to suicide postvention, our brave guests met the vulnerability challenge and offered up their tales of imperfection and how they recovered from clinical missteps. And maybe even more important, how they grew as a provider by facing the tough situations that didn’t go by the book… or manual as it were.
Listen to the full discussion here: EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners Confessions.
The “why” behind this “EBP Confessional” theme for season 4 was to remind ALL of us that mistakes happen and it is ok to NOT have everything go perfectly well, especially when learning a new EBP. We hoped to reduce some of the anxiety and fear we all have when flexing new EBP muscles and we are grateful to our guest SME’s for sharing some of the bad and the ugly that, while unpleasant, helped shape the providers they are today. These lessons learned from the clinically unexpected or provider fumbles are invaluable and we hope perhaps inspired some listeners to go forth and share imperfections and, ideally, get support through consultation or by just talking through the missteps with a colleague.
So what are some takeaways from this final episode of Confessionals? Here was our actionable intel.
- Mismatches happen: : “Sometimes we are not the right match for every patient. And that is ok”.
- Own the misstep:: “If you make a mistake, apologize.”
- Learn and repair: “We can use our missteps or things going sideways as an opportunity to open a dialogue about that. "How do we work together and move forward past this?"
- Utilize consultation. “If you put your foot in your mouth or you say something inappropriate, consultation can really help you get out of that. And really, any of the scenarios that we've talked about throughout this entire season, all of the confessionals have really potentially benefited from consultation.”
The episode ended with Carin asking for a “consultation woo-hoo?” to reinforce we never have to worry and repair missteps alone. And I couldn’t agree more. So here we go, on three… ONE, TWO, THREE “CONSULTATION WOO HOO”!
Until next season…
Listen to the full discussion here: EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners Confessions.
If you have a question or topic you want to suggest for a future episode, feel free to drop us a voice-mail message at https://www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p.
The opinions in CDP Staff Perspective blogs are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science or the Department of Defense.
Jenna Ermold, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Senior Military Behavioral Health Psychologist at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.