Physician Mental Health: Caring For Your Own Emotional Welfare

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Physician Mental Health

How to Achieve Mental Health for Yourself and Your Coworkers

Many physicians have difficulty addressing their patients’ and their own emotional welfare. The COVID pandemic has created even more stress and burnout, as physicians cope with longer hours, frayed nerves, and challenges to their relationships. Physicians will learn how to attain and maintain positive mental health; understand various mental disorders and treatments; decrease stigma related to mental disorders, and recognize when and where to seek help. This course will cover:

What is mental health and what are the symptoms of mental ‘unhealth’
The role of burnout in depression and anxiety
The impact of COVID-19 on mental health
Physician mental health challenges and stigmas and how to combat them
How physicians can promote their own mental health
Reducing negative feelings
How to help your colleagues, coworkers, and staff

5 CHAPTERS

Mental Health vs Mental Illness

Because mental health is not often discussed in medical school and beyond, many physicians have difficulty addressing their patients' — and their own — emotional welfare.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health

Changes to healthcare triggered by the pandemic have had a deep and lasting effect on mental health and how physicians and patients perceive and react to challenging situations.

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Physician Mental Health Challenges and Stigmas

Many physicians keep their mental illness or mental challenges secret, for fear that acknowledging or admitting to depression, drug dependency, and other significant problems will derail their career.

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How Physicians Can Promote Their Own Mental Health

Looking within — by identifying and delineating your positive and negative feelings, and how these feelings are manifested — can go a long way toward helping you determine your mental health status.

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How to Help Your Colleagues, Coworkers, and Staff

Many people in your professional orbit may need you to step in and help them address mental health issues. Here's how to do that, one step at a time.

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AUTHORS

Margaret Calvery, PhD

Professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. Serves as assistant director of development at Norton Children's Medical Group in Louisville, where she mentors physicians and psychologists, focusing on their mental health and how to apply tools and techniques. Dr Calvery specializes in developmental and pediatric psychology. She provides diagnostic and consultation services to pediatric patients and their families in the areas of pediatric development and neurology. Additionally, she serves as director of psychology services at the University of Louisville Kosair Charities Center for Pediatric NeuroRecovery.

Lola Butcher

Freelance healthcare writer from Springfield, Missouri.

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