Videos

As we notice acts of kindness and allow them to guide us into new behaviors and habit loops, we replace worry and anxiety with altruistic thinking. 

Strategies for Keeping Our Prefrontal Cortex Online

A simple exercise and tools to "find your Zen." 

A Journey To Relaxation

During these challenging times, physicians have to be proactive in helping ourselves. And that starts now. 

The Paradox of Self-Help

Dr Jessi Gold provides quick tips for health care professionals to practice self-care during this difficult time.

To Care for Our Patients, We Must Take Care of Ourselves

Articles

Dr Steve Moffic talks about about some of the psychological dangers clinicians are facing during the pandemic in this video.

COVID-19 and the Iceberg of Hidden Trauma

The current COVID-19 crisis is a wake-up call to how dangerously our health care workforce has been chronically over-stretched. Effective solutions are discussed.

Supporting Health Care Workers in Distress While Avoiding “Trauma” Narratives

The doctors, nurses, aids, food staff, and janitors are among the frontline heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. They know its ravages best and are most at risk. We mustn't let them down.

Words of Wisdom to Soldiers of the Pandemic

As we progress further in the COVID-19 crisis, it is even more important for mental health professionals to take care of themselves, so they can be available to provide a much needed service in the best way possible to patients. More in this podcast.

Strategies to Decompress After Long Days Working From Home

Behavioral health care providers are needed now more than ever to help support frontline caregivers and to provide access to care. Deena Tampi, MSN, MBA-HCA, offers insights about caring for the caregiver as well as providing access to care.

COVID-19 Quick Clip: Access to Care

Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS, DFAPA, provides guidance for frontline health professionals and caregivers to mitigate stress and burden.

COVID-19: Quick Self-Check for Health Professionals

Tips for advocating for yourself and the safety of your patients.

The Battle Against COVID-19: Tips for Clinicians

In what seem like ancient times “BCV” (before coronavirus), there was a more slowly growing scourge for physicians and other health care workers: burnout.

Can App-Based Mindfulness Reduce Physician Anxiety and Burnout?

PsychPearls: COVID-19, A Critical Time for Self-Care

This article discusses the return to work plan as a solution to the clinical and systemic problems arising from psychiatric disability.

Disability and the Concept of Return to Work

Psychiatry can help us understand what layers of the onion exist that need to be peeled away, but the power to discard them once and for all resides within each and every one of us.

Closing a Practice for Self-Preservation

Slideshows

We may have strong (psychological) bones, but they are still susceptible to stress fractures. Face the new year armed with these guidelines on combatting symptoms of burnout, written by an expert in the field.

8 Tips to Prevent Physician Burnout and Enhance Well-Being in 2020

In a spirit of gratitude, here are eight of the many extraordinary advantages of being a psychiatrist.

Psychiatrists: The Luckiest People on Earth?

The recognition of a wide range of traumatic experiences-physical or sexual assault, motor vehicular accidents, natural disasters, terrorism-has implications for understanding the vulnerability to vicarious trauma inherent in a clinician’s practice.

Vicarious Trauma in Clinicians: Fostering Resilience and Preventing Burnout

The fallout from burnout: alcohol dependence, binge eating, sleep disorders, and general ill health.

Work Stress Takes a Toll on Physicians’ Health

By building a practice model that we enjoy, it enhances our ability to “cure sometimes, treat often, and comfort always.”

Burnout

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