The entire team at Simple and Practical Medical Education wishes you and your family a very Happy New Year!
Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5.1.29
What New Year resolutions do you suggest for our work as mental health clinicians? Please post your response below, under “Leave a Reply.”
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Henry Nasrallah, MD, who is on our Editorial Board, comments:
“Here is my wish for 2022: That we psychiatrists envision ourselves as clinical neuroscientists, and accelerate our neuroscience literacy so we can grow more rapidly as a brain specialty, and keep up with the dramatic weekly advances in neuroscience discoveries that will ultimately translate to major breakthroughs in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.”
Make a conscious decision to refrain from complaining… choosing instead to find one small thing that you can instead appreciate in that given moment.
Thanks, Michele! This one I, myself, definitely need to do. And, my wife will wholeheartedly agree. 🙂
Be especially kind to all of your coworkers this year. Many are suffering “covid fatigue”, and may not be at their best. Treat everyone with compassion and understanding.
Definitely agree! Thanks, Dr. Elder.
I am a forensic clinician, and one of the quotes I always return to when I’m working with a patient who is difficult is this: “Compassion does not deny our clear perception of another person – our ‘take’ on them, our being able to ‘size them up’, our being able to ‘see through’ their gimmicks and games and posturing – but rather to see all this through new eyes. So much of what is irritating in life are people inarticulately, desperately asking for help.” -Br. Curtis Almquist
And so my resolution is to remember that even more often.
Thanks, Dr. Dorio! That certainly is good for all of us to keep in mind when “negative transference” raises its head.
To continually explore what may be underlying causes of symptoms; not just treating symptoms with medications, which are only one tool in our toolkit. Learning about functional medicine makes me a better practitioner.
Great!
To try to consider all treatment options including therapy or alternative treatments, and discuss with the patient before jumping to prescribe.
Awesome!