Practical for Your Practice

Podcast episodes

• Season 5

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  What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?

  What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?

  S05 E01

  28:57

  Guess who's back? Back again… Welcome to Practical for your Practice (P4P) Season 5! Your hosts are excited to kick things off with a reveal of this season’s theme. On P4P, we believe in the importance of relating to each as a behavioral health podcast community. So in that vein, for Season 5 we will be asking our guests “what is their why.” What drew them into the field of behavioral health and the specific slice of the field that they're in? Behavioral health provider origin stories if you will. And what better way to kick things off than to have your hosts disclose theirs. You might even hear about their superpowers. So tune in to hear some actionable intel about career paths and get excited for a great season! Calls-to-action: Subscribe to the Practical for Your Practice Podcast Subscribe to The Center for Deployment Psychology Monthly Email

• Season 4

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  EBP Confessionals Part 2: Listeners' Confessions

  EBP Confessionals Part 2: Listeners' Confessions

  S04 E12

  33:22

  We asked for your EBP Confessionals and you delivered! Carin, Jenna, and Kevin are relieved to know they are not the only ones who have made blunders while delivering treatment.  Today we discuss two “confessions” submitted by our listeners and Carin shares her experience of working with a client who was viscerally impacted by exposure therapy.  Tune in for the season 4 finale of The Practical for Your Practice Podcast!   Calls-to-action: Subscribe to the Practical for Your Practice Podcast Subscribe to The Center for Deployment Psychology  Monthly Email  Share your EBP fears with us on www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p

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  Saying Nothing is Worse Than Saying The Wrong Thing: Suicide Postvention for Providers

  Saying Nothing is Worse Than Saying The Wrong Thing: Suicide Postvention for Providers

  S04 E11

  40:37

  How do we support providers who are impacted by suicide loss? Although most of us are familiar with the importance of suicide prevention, we are less familiar with the concept of suicide postvention. Dr. Megan Harvey of the Rocky Mountain MIRECC joins us on this episode to discuss how we can compassionately and effectively support providers coping with a suicide loss, either professional or personal. Tune in for this important discussion. Dr. Harvey is a psychologist with over 15 years of experience working within the VA Health System. She provides consultation and other services as part of the Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program housed by the Rocky Mountain MIRECC. Resources: The Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program (SRM) provides free consultation, support, and resources to VA or non-VA providers who serve Veterans at risk for suicide. Visit their website SRM Home - MIRECC / CoE (va.gov) or reach out via email: srmconsult@va.gov The provider section of Uniting for Suicide Postvention (USPV) offers resources, guidance and support to those affected by suicide loss: https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn19/postvention/providers/ Connect with the Coalition of Clinician Survivors for support: www.cliniciansurvivor.org American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): https://afsp.org/find-support/ive-lost-someone/ American Association of Suicidology (AAS): https://suicidology.org/resources/suicide-loss-survivors/ TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) for those impacted by military or Veteran suicide. https://www.taps.org/ Calls-to-action: Acknowledge the loss, whether it is your own or a colleague’s. If you have experienced a loss, talk to a supervisor, close friend, consultant, or personal therapist. Don’t grieve alone. Watch the following video on The Personal and Professional Impact of Suicide Loss: https://youtu.be/Gd4Vcn9tJ1E Subscribe to the Practical for Your Practice Podcast Subscribe to The Center for Deployment Psychology Monthly Email Share your EBP fears with us on www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p

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  MATCHing Treatment to Kids’ and Teens’ Needs

  MATCHing Treatment to Kids’ and Teens’ Needs

  S04 E10

  33:15

  In this episode, we discuss MATCH-ADTC, an evidence-based psychotherapy for young people struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma exposure, and/or conduct disorders. Our guest, Khristine Heflin, introduces us to this modular treatment that enables providers to meet each child’s unique needs. We discuss how this applies to the needs of military children, in particular, and wrap up with actionable intel on how to obtain training in this effective treatment. Resources: Clinicians working in military treatment facilities can reach out to Program Lead, Dr. Jennifer Ulrich, to inquire about the MATCH-ADTC pilot training program. She can be reached at: Jennifer.a.ulbricht.civ@health.mil Non-military providers can pursue training in MATCH on the PracticeWise website: https://www.practicewise.com/ Calls-to-action: Follow up on training resources if you are working with children and teens (or you want to start). Subscribe to the Practical for Your Practice Podcast Subscribe to The Center for Deployment Psychology Monthly Email Share your EBP fears with us on www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p

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  Massed Treatments for PTSD: The Quickest Way Through the Fog?

  Massed Treatments for PTSD: The Quickest Way Through the Fog?

  S04 E09

  35:06

  What if you could successfully treat PTSD in 2 weeks instead of 12? Massed delivery of PTSD treatments such as Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure are gaining empirical support. But how does it work and could you offer it to your patients? Our guest in this episode is at the forefront of research answering these questions. We’re joined by Dr. Cynthia Yamokoski, the Associate Director of the PTSD Mentoring Program at the National Center for PTSD. She shares the benefits and challenges of massed treatment for PTSD and provides suggestions for how to get started in your clinical practice. Of course, she also shares her “EBP Confession,” describing how she let her EBP pendulum swing too far. Listen in as Dr. Yamokoski leads us “through the fog.” Cynthia Yamokoski, PhD is a clinical psychologist and the Associate Director of the PTSD Mentoring Program at the National Center for PTSD. She is a Senior Clinical Instructor at the Case Western Reserve University. She earned her doctorate from the University of Akron. Dr. Yamokoski and her colleagues in Cleveland have developed and implemented an intensive 2- and 4-week PTSD program utilizing massed delivery of evidenced-based psychotherapy for PTSD, and she is facilitating the implementation of this model in additional PTSD programs within the VA system. Resources: This American Life “Ten Sessions”: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/682/ten-sessions The PTSD Consultation Program at the National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/consult/index.asp This article provides a good summary of the massed treatment research to date: Wachen, J.S., Dondanville, K., Evans, W., Morris, K., & Cole, A. (2019). Adjusting the Timeframe of Evidence-Based Therapies for PTSD-Massed Treatments. Current Treatment Options in Psych. DOI 10.1007/s40501-019-00169-9 Calls-to-action: For example: Learn more about massed treatments by listening to the “Ten Sessions” episode of This American Life and reading relevant research. Utilize consultation as you start implementing massed treatment. Subscribe to the Practical for Your Practice Podcast Subscribe to The Center for Deployment Psychology Monthly Email Share your EBP fears with us on www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p