Making Sense of Suicide: Risk Assessment: Facing Your Fears

by DrKatieBrazaitis | Sep 22, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency, Suicide

Welcome back to my series Making Sense of Suicide. I’ve previously talked about why we need to talk about making sense of suicide more, and I reviewed key theories to provide the needed framework for understanding suicidal ideations and related behaviors. Now...

Validation: Part 1: What and Why

by DrKatieBrazaitis | Sep 10, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency

If you’re a follower of my blog, you’ve probably noticed I’m a big fan of validation. I talked about it a lot in my post on Inside Out and in my Making Sense of Suicide series. Even when I’m not labeling the role of validation explicitly,...

Chasing Happiness

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...

Trauma-Informed Care

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...

Making Sense of Suicide: Part 2 Theory Continued

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...