Burnout in Mental Health Professionals As helping professionals, we are trusted with some of our clients’ deepest, darkest secrets. Each day, we are subjected to the heart-wrenching ...
Symposium on Psychology and National Security at the Italian Embassy The Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC recently hosted the first of 2 workshops on Leaders and Terrorists: Psychological Perspectives on National Security. The well-attended symposium drew upon the growing interest in exploring and utilizing all the elements of national power, including so-called “soft power”—the ability to attract and persuade others in order to influence their behavior and obtain desired outcomes.
Quiz: Working With Other Physicians When a patient in chronic pain has been referred to a psychiatrist by their PCP, the psychiatrist should consider which of the following?
Networking, Professionalism, and the Internet The digital revolution has transformed society and forever altered the practice of psychiatry. Technology permeates our daily lives and poses new social and professional challenges
Computers in the Consulting Room When personal computers were introduced to the consumer marketplace in the late 1970s, many considered them to be very expensive toys with limited practical application. Now computers are ubiquitous, and many of us—especially our youngest colleagues—have difficulty in imagining life without them.
2012 Physicians Compensation Survey: How Psychiatrists Are Faring How Are Psychiatrists Faring?
These charts are culled from the annual Physicians Compensation Survey, which is conducted by the editorial staff of Physicians Practice—a sister publication of Psychiatric Times. This year, more than 1311 physicians of all specialties completed the survey . . . 287 of the respondents are psychiatrists. The charts you see here show how those 287 responded to just a few of the survey questions.
Social Media Tools for Mental Health Professionals (Video) Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are turning to social media to help them build, manage, market, and diversify their practices. The challenge is in maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality. In Part 1 of this 2-part webcast, Dr David Ballard discusses the emergence of social media marketing by clinicians:
Balancing Your Professional and Personal Life (Video) Career fulfillment, free time, maximum revenue—a perfect triad for every clinician—but one too seldom realized. In fact, physician burnout is a very real—and common—phenomenon. In the first known national study on the topic, researchers found that nearly half of physicians experienced at least 1 symptom of burnout.1
Once a Psychiatrist, Always a Psychiatrist? When I retired from clinical work,, I knew I would continue being a psychiatrist in some way. Like writing blogs. Like presenting on eco-psychiatry. Like continuing to serve on boards and think tanks. Like having the world view of a psychiatrist, even though I always tried to avoid acting like one in everyday life.
