WE'RE GOING RURAL, BABY! Bron is joined by Lauren Vines (early-career psychologist) to tell us what it's really like to work rurally, where you are sometimes hundreds of kilometres from your nearest colleague. They unpack 👉🏽 What led Lauren to working rurally 👉 Best things, most challenging things, and most ~surprising~ things about working rurally.

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• Connect with Lauren on LinkedIn
• Rural Health Connect - Connecting people in rural areas to provisional psychs free of charge (for VIC only)

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Bron is joined by Neeraja Shankar (Clin Psych registrar/PhD Candidate) to unpack getting comfortable with making mistakes as an early-career psych. They chat about 👉🏽 How being human means you're gonna make mistakes, and - take a deep breath - that's ooooook 👉🏿 What counts as a mistake in therapy? 👉 How to see mistakes as growth opportunities 👉🏻 The mistakes we've made and how we've survived.

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Bron is joined by Rebecca Black (Clin Psych at Nourish, Heal, Grow & sustainable career coach) to unpack how to build a sustainable psychology career. Yes, it IS possible to have a profitable career, friends/family, and even hobbies without burning out 😮! They chat 👉🏽 Over-preparing for sessions 👉🏻 How many clients per day is too many? 👉 Tips if you struggle with unrelenting standards and self-sacrificing schemas.

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• Rebecca's Facebook: Sustainable Therapists
• Rebecca's Instagram: @sustainabletherapists

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Today on Mental Work, by popular request Bron returns to the topic of emotional labour with guests Anthony Joffe (Psychologist/PhD Candidate) and James Clarke (Clinical Psychologist/PhD Candidate). They chat about 👉🏽 Surface acting vs deep acting vs natural expression 👉🏻 Surface acting and burnout 👉 Why authenticity is key 👉🏿 How emotional labour shows up in James' and Anthony's therapy work 👉🏾 The emotion regulation strategies they use in and out of sessions.

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• Contact James by email or LinkedIn

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If you cry a little inside every time you think about treatment planning, then this episode is for you. Bron is joined by Amanda Moses (Psychologist) to unpack treatment planning in an easy-to-understand, bite-sized way. They chat about:

👉🏻 How to formulate using the 5 P's
👉 How to treatment plan for depression
👉🏿 Ways to deliver CBT for depression
👉🏾 Getting the right balance between over-planning and under-planning for sessions.

Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t have to go it alone. Hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins.

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• Find Amanda on social media: Facebook, Linkedin
• Treating Depression - A Manual for Therapists (written by Amanda)
• Treatment Plans & Interventions for Depression & Anxiety Disorders (Booktopia)

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Today on Mental Work, Bron is joined by Carly Dober (Psychologist and Director of AAPi) to unpack the question, 'Can I be a good therapist if I have lived experience?' They chat about 👉🏽 How having lived experience can inform your work as a psych 👉🏻 Myths about therapists with mental illness 👉 Changes in attitudes among psychs towards lived experience practitioners 👉🏿 Why peer-led work is super cool.

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• Latest stats on how common mental health problems are in Australia - "1 in 5 Australians had a mental disorder in the past 12 months" 😲
• Predicting boundary violation propensity among mental health professionals (2020)
• Scoping Review of Peer-Led Support for People Bereaved by Suicide (2022)
• A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Peer-Based Interventions on Health-Related Behaviors in Adults (2011)
• Peer-based health interventions for people with serious mental illness: A systematic literature review (2017)
• Peer-led interventions to prevent tobacco, alcohol and/or drug use among young people aged 11–21 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)

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Do you feel like you'll never be a 'good enough' therapist? Do you over-prepare for sessions, or procrastinate on reports? You might be a perfectionist. Today on Mental Work, Bron is joined by Kate Christie (Psychologist in schools and private practice) to unpack perfectionism among therapists. They touch on 👉🏽 The role that perfectionism plays in burnout 👉🏻 How perfectionism shows up in the therapy room 👉 The benefits of perfectionism 👉🏿 Practical tips for reducing the downsides of perfectionism in our work.

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• Kate's practice: https://www.change-rooms.com.au/kate-christie/ 

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Today on Mental Work, Bron is joined by Nicole Young (Educational and Developmental Psychologist) to unpack everything diagnosis and assessment. They touch on 👉🏽 What are the benefits of diagnosis? 👉🏻 Getting comfortable with *not* taking on every assessment referral 👉 Managing client expectations with diagnosis 👉🏾 The importance of adequate training and practice in assessments.

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Today on Mental Work, Bron is joined by Sahra O'Doherty (Psychologist and Director of AAPi) to unpack the dilemma of 'What can I wear to work?' They touch on 👉🏽 What does it mean when a supervisor directs you to 'Dress Professionally'? 👉🏻 How our ideas of 'professionalism' may exclude psychs with diverse body shapes/sizes and cultural diversity 👉 All the taboos! Tattoos, coloured hair, piercings, and bright clothes.

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• Dopamine dressing - https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/is-dressing-for-dopamine-a-real-thing-social-media-colours/101169658
• AAPi - www.aapi.org.au

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We've been taught that clients are supposed to enter therapy, get better, and then graciously leave therapy... but what about all those clients who *don't* get better? Today on Mental Work, Bron is joined by Brian Cheng (Psychologist) to unpack the dilemma of what to do when client's don't get better in therapy. They unpack 👉🏽 What accounts for change in therapy (the 'common factors' model) 👉🏻 Practical ways you can get 'unstuck' with complex clients in therapy 👉 How to take care of yourself when you have clients who are not changing 👉🏿 Different trajectories of change.

Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t have to go it alone. Hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins.

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• How important are the common factors in psychotherapy? An update - Wampold
• Therapeutic alliance, empathy, and genuineness in individual adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic review
• Trajectories of Change in Psychotherapy
• A+ counselling book, would recommend: The Skilled Helper by Egan

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