American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Strategies to Avoid Burnout
Take a centering moment before every patient appointment. Stand there alone in the hall or your office, for the length [...]
Inadequate? So What?
Life is complicated. We constantly need to learn something new. Too much, though, is new. Always new. The new does [...]
Motivational Strategies
A few years ago I ran across something written by Angela Duckworth, the psychologist who is well-known for her research [...]
The Often Missed Emotion Regulation Strategy
First, a brief intro to emotions. Emotions are multi-faceted and full-body experiences whose role encompasses the following: Readying behavioral responses [...]
Focusing Questions for Deeper Life Engagement
Too many people live in a state of chronic lack, experiencing prominent dissatisfaction, emptiness, disenchantment, estrangement, directionlessness, pointlessness, or lack [...]
New 2021 E/M guidelines: What Psychiatrists and Other Qualified Behavioral Health Professionals Need to Know
Behavioral health medical providers are in the business of helping others, which is why they sometimes forget to help themselves. We’re talking about helping their own practices survive and thrive financially. What’s the most effective way to do this? Report the right Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes. Far too often, psychiatrists and other qualified behavioral health professionals underbill because they aren’t aware of new coding guidelines, or they don’t understand how to apply existing ones. The result? They end up leaving money on the table.