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Strategies to Avoid Burnout

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-05-05T15:02:00+00:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: All, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: avoiding burnout, Burnout, empty chair technique, life worth living, vocation|

Take a centering moment before every patient appointment. Stand there alone in the hall or your office, for the length [...]

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The Often Missed Emotion Regulation Strategy

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-04-13T01:48:34+00:00April 12th, 2021|Categories: All, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance, avoidance, emotion regulation strategies, emotions, problem-solving, reappraisal, rumination, suppression|

First, a brief intro to emotions. Emotions are multi-faceted and full-body experiences whose role encompasses the following: Readying behavioral responses [...]

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Focusing Questions for Deeper Life Engagement

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-10-19T21:50:31+00:00April 6th, 2021|Categories: All, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: anxiety, coming to terms, confronting death, confronting uncertainty, coping, covid-19 disruptions, daily praxis, engagement, future pacing, journaling, life meaning, malaise, memories, realistic risk-taking, worry ruminations|

Too many people live in a state of chronic lack, experiencing prominent dissatisfaction, emptiness, disenchantment, estrangement, directionlessness, pointlessness, or lack [...]

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Increasing Treatment Effectiveness

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-03-16T16:46:28+00:00March 16th, 2021|Categories: All, Psych Matters|Tags: attribution bias, common factors of psychotherapy, confirmation bias, Dodo bird conjecture, expectation bias, interpretation bias, lack of agency, nocebo effects, placebo effects|

Today I share my musings on increasing mental health treatment effectiveness. Psychiatric treatment almost always entails long term management of [...]

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