American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
How to Understand and Treat Worry
I’ll start with my take-home message: chronic worriers do not want to stop worrying. Instead, they want to stop feeling [...]
Managing Patients’ Horizons of Concern
Sorry for the obscure title of this essay. Once I explain, I hope you’ll agree that what I’m referring to [...]
Not Too Late for New Year’s Resolutions
This is the last full week of January. As such, I think it’s not too late to consider and resolve [...]
Get Another Degree or Not? 2022
Over the years I’ve received many questions and requests for my thoughts on whether a clinician should pursue additional advanced [...]
Avoiding and Recovering from Burnout
Burnout is “a psychological syndrome emerging as a prolonged response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job,”1 stressors that are often [...]
Good, Better, Best Pandemic Questions to Ask Yourself
It has become a common refrain among researchers and pundits alike that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has [...]
Anhedonia, Tension, and Significance
Each day is like the next: no event, no experience, no change to look forward to. One aspect of life [...]
Heartbreak of Change
Whether we like it or not, we are now in a time of transition. This pandemic likely affects your work. [...]