The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society

The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society

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The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society episodes

  • Communication Skills Can and Do Resolve Conflict
    Virgina Buki MD, a psychiatrist, outlines the role and need for good communication skills in conflict resolution and therapy. She discusses how to turn complaints into requests, the use of feelings to undo power struggles, how to use a communication model to reduce conflict., etc These are very important and very key social and communication skills.
    18 min
  • Why People Bully
    Phil Heller, PsyD, explains the reasons why people bully. He speaks of the fears generated in those who are bullied, cyberstalking, the internet’s role in bullying, that those who bully seek power, the new diagnosis of callous conduct disorder, of why crowds will watch but not intervene with bullying, etc.
    18 min
  • When Anxiety Turns Into Depression
    Tom Quinn PhD, describes how chronic or uncontrolled anxiety can become a depression, that anxiety has been known to cause suicide, and of ways to avoid and treat an anxiety that may become a depression.
    19 min
  • Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
    Robert Heller, EdD, practices clinical hypnosis. He speaks to the nature and use of hypnosis for a wide range of clinical conditions, including chronic pain.
    18 min
  • INSIDE: The Modern Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
    Maxie Gordon, MD, runs an in-patient psychiatric unit at the University of Mississippi Medical School. He explains the admission, work-up and treatment and discharge process, how civil rights are protected, the role of stigma, and the real goal of psychiatric hospitalization.
    19 min
  • Bullying -- Part One
    Phil Heller, PsyD, outlines the nature, styles, motivations, power, and danger of bullying for those who bully and those who are bullied. He also speaks to how bullying can have a more nasty impact now because of the speed and size of the internet. This is part one of a two part interview.
    17 min
  • Human Genomics and Genetics
    Joy Lee Johnson, PhD, and Kayle Czape, MS, both from the Hussman Institute of Human Genomics in Miami, explain the rapid and intriguing knowledge base about human genetics, its relationship to some diseases, the importance of family genetic history and proper ways to benefit from it, the Genetic Awareness Project, etc.
    18 min
  • The Teenager's Brain
    David Gross MD, a psychiatrist, outlines interesting data that reveals how the teenagers neurologically incomplete brain development explains many behaviors. The brain is not fully developed until the mid or late 20's.
    15 min
  • Rational Emotive Therapy
    Psychologist Robert Heller explains the nature and forms of RET -- Rational Emotive Therapy, also referred to as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He explains the techniques, time course, on what aspects of the problem that gets attention, etc.
    19 min
  • After A Homicide - The Grieving Process
    Stefan Pasternack MD talks of the unique and often difficult process of the bereavement process following a loss through homicide. Included are discussions of the media, inner city experiences, guilt, denial, and repression and anger.
    18 min

About The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society

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Listen to 15-20 minute long interviews of experts on various topics related to mental and general health. The topics will be continuously expanded. The interviews are designed for both professionals…