Blog posts with the tag "Clinical Skills"

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode - “Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Ears: The Real Deal With the Righting Reflex”

By Jenna Ermold  on 28.08.2024 8:28 am
Dr. Jenna Ermold

How much advice should a provider provide, if the provider could provide advice? As behavioral health providers we often, with good intentions, get swept up in a mission of change with (for?) our clients. A client states problems they are experiencing and we clearly see what needs to be “fixed” and jump in with our EBP guns blazing. But perhaps, at times, we are a little too quick on the draw.

Staff Perspective: Introducing the Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide

By Maegan Paxton Willing  on 21.08.2024 11:35 am

Over the last few years, the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) has been hard at work developing a first of its kind training for the core components of cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP). The resulting Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide, or SLIPS, is an asynchronous, avatar-based learning environment focused on reinforcing the concepts learned during traditional two-day CBT-SP workshops.

Staff Perspective: A New Moral Injury Measure

By Paula Domenici  on 07.08.2024 9:57 am

A few months ago, I was treating a patient with PTSD, but after greater exploration of his distress, which included guilt, shame, and feeling betrayed by his military boss, we fleshed out that moral injury was a salient part of his clinical picture. Currently, there is no consensus in the field on the exact definition of moral injury, but one I like refers to it as “enduring psychosocial and spiritual harms following exposures to high-stakes events that involve transgressions of one’s deeply held moral convictions or beliefs of right and wrong through one’s own or others’ action or inaction, or perceived betrayal by those in positions of authority or trust” (Phelps et al., 2022).

Staff Perspective: Because Someone Else Said it Much Better - Using Quotes in Therapy

By Andrea Israel  on 29.05.2024 7:20 am

I love to read. Sure, I enjoy learning; but, there are just so many smart, thoughtful, funny, and witty people out there who find ways to say things better than I could ever imagine. Early in my career, I found myself bringing in quotes from my reading to share with my patients - these little nuggets of goodness that made me think of them or a situation we were talking about.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode - Improving Our EBP Practice by “Doing” Instead of “Knowing.”

By Carin Lefkowitz  on 19.05.2024 10:38 am

Teaching is hard. Ask any teacher you know, whether they teach preschool or graduate school. No matter how much they love their job, their answer will probably reveal some weariness.  I love my job as a CDP faculty member, but it’s not always easy. Although we’re not in the business of writing hall passes or grading homework, adult learners bring their own set of challenges to our classrooms. How do we meet the needs of a large audience with varying clinical and educational backgrounds? How do we help them stay engaged for one or two full days despite competing demands? 

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