47. How to Prevent Burnout in Parents: Tools and Tips that Work
10/15/24 • 28 min
It's time to talk about the mental health impact of *parenting*... and what we can do about it. Join me and our special guest, Ashley, a working mom, as we explore practical tools and exercises to recognize and address signs of BURNOUT. This episode is for parents AND for all of us who need to take care of ourselves so that we can care for others. We talk about practical tools like:
** The stress continuum: Are you green, yellow, orange, or red?
** 'What's on your plate' or 'What's on your mind?': Exercises to assess and reprioritize responsibilities.
*** Self-care that WORKS to recharge mentally and physically: including social connections, creative expression, and exercise
Check out our website PsychEd4Peds.com for more resources.
Follow us on Instagram @psyched4peds
It's time to talk about the mental health impact of *parenting*... and what we can do about it. Join me and our special guest, Ashley, a working mom, as we explore practical tools and exercises to recognize and address signs of BURNOUT. This episode is for parents AND for all of us who need to take care of ourselves so that we can care for others. We talk about practical tools like:
** The stress continuum: Are you green, yellow, orange, or red?
** 'What's on your plate' or 'What's on your mind?': Exercises to assess and reprioritize responsibilities.
*** Self-care that WORKS to recharge mentally and physically: including social connections, creative expression, and exercise
Check out our website PsychEd4Peds.com for more resources.
Follow us on Instagram @psyched4peds
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46. What do you do about Burnout with Dr. Jessi Gold
If you think you may be experiencing burnout, what can you do? To answer this question, Dr. Fallucco discusses strategies to combat healthcare burnout with Dr. Jessi Gold, Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Tennessee Health System.
WE discuss:
* That systemic changes in Healthcare are urgently needed to reduce burnout.
* Individual strategies to address burnout in the current healthcare system including:
----- practicing self-reflection - and asking, "How Do *I* feel?" and "How is my job affecting my health?"
-----practicing self-compassion and gratitude, which can help counterbalance the natural tendency for our brain to focus on negative things and threats,
--- We discuss the “Three Good Things” exercise which can help reduce burnout and increase well-being. Three Good Things and other free tools are available at the Duke Center for Healthcare Safety and Quality online at: https://hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/
Dr. Jessi Gold is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UT Health Science Center. Dr. Gold is not only a psychiatrist, but she is a mental health advocate and fantastic writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, InStyle, Slate, and Self.
https://www.drjessigold.com/
@drjessigold
Dr. Gold's new memoir is called
How Do You Feel? One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine available on Amazon at
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982199776?tag=simonsayscom
Check out our website PsychEd4Peds.com for more resources.
Follow us on Instagram @psyched4peds
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In this episode of Psyched for Peds, Dr. Elise Fallucco and her teenage son, Chase Fallucco, discuss the seasonal surge of mental health symptoms, termed the 'emotional flu,' impacting teenagers during October and November. They discuss:
** What are the symptoms and signs of the emotional flu?
** Why are October and November high-risk periods for the Emotional Flu?
** What can we do to "vaccinate" teens against the Emotional Flu?
Check out our website PsychEd4Peds.com for more resources.
Follow us on Instagram @psyched4peds
Child Mental Health for Pediatric Clinicians - 47. How to Prevent Burnout in Parents: Tools and Tips that Work
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Welcome back to PsychEd4Peds, the child mental health podcast for pediatric clinicians, helping you help kids. I'm Elise Fallucco Child psychiatrist and mom. Now many of you may already know that United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy recently released a surgeon General's advisory on the mental health and wellbeing of parents. Now this advisory highlighted how parenting can lead to significant stress and burnout and negatively i
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