15 Principles for Compassionate Mental Health Crisis Response
In a recent post, I covered the ten essential values for responding with compassion to a mental health crisis. These values came from the “Practice Guidelines: Core Elements in Responding to Mental...
View Article10 Ways to Help Your Therapist Help You More
You may already know that I’m a big fan of psychotherapy to treat mental health concerns and other personal and emotional challenges. In previous posts, I’ve discussed various aspects of the therapy...
View ArticleMy 24 Years in a Psychiatric Hospital (part 1)
It’s probably safe to say that psychiatric hospitals have gotten a bad rap. They have often been inaccurately depicted in films, TV and other media as dark, scary institutions where deranged patients...
View ArticleMy 24 Years in a Psychiatric Hospital (part 2: the Recovery Mall)
In a recent post, I chronicled the first half of my 24 years of employment as a clinical psychologist at Eastern State Hospital, a public psychiatric hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, which opened in...
View ArticleMy 24 Years in a Psychiatric Hospital (part 3: a new beginning)
In two recent posts, I recounted much of my 24-year journey working as a clinical psychologist at Eastern State Hospital, a public psychiatric hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. To catch up, my early...
View ArticleA New Resource for Serious Mental Illness
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “serious mental illness” before and wondered what it means. Aren’t all mental illnesses potentially “serious”? A “serious mental illness” or “SMI” is defined as “a mental,...
View ArticleHelping Sexual and Gender Minority Male Survivors Heal from Sexual Trauma
Guest Post by Joan Cook, Ph.D. and Amy Ellis, Ph.D. Trauma impacts nearly all of us. Really bad, horrible, life-threatening events can and do happen to people. But, some of us are in greater danger of...
View ArticleDiscussing Inpatient Psychiatric Care on “The Psych Central Podcast”
I recently was invited to be a guest on “The Psych Central Podcast” by host Gabe Howard. Gabe is a terrific mental health advocate, who I’ve featured previously in my “Stories of Hope” series. Gabe...
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