by DrKatieBrazaitis | Aug 26, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Clinician Wellness, Pop Culture, Media, and the Arts
In American culture, we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that happiness is attainable. And if we aren’t happy, it’s because we are doing something wrong. Something wrong that we can fix, if only we work hard enough, are dedicated, and willing to make...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Aug 12, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency
This Friday, August 16, 2024 at 12 MST I’ll be providing an Arizona Perinatal Psychiatry Access Line (APAL) Grand Rounds on Trauma-Informed Care in a Gynecological Setting. In the talk, I introduce the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Jul 30, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency
In Making Sense of Suicide: Part 2 Theory, I introduced Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory of Suicide and Jobes’ Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide. In this blog, I’ll round out my discussion on theory by reviewing Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical Behavior...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Jul 24, 2024 | Clinician Wellness, Engaging in Community Care, Expanding Self-Care
During the pandemic, providers across healthcare fields were struggling to remain motivated and hopeful. There were increased talks of compassion fatigue, burn-out, secondary stress (review my blog on this here), moral injury, and self-care. But what do these terms...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Jul 15, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency
Holding Ice is one of my go-to distress tolerance skills. It is a modification of the DBT TIP skills, which aim to change your emotional state through changing your body’s physiology. This blog is for clinicians and those seeking healing alike. You’ll notice some...
