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Podcast Impact
Did the show help you identify with people who have this particular struggle?
Answer: 5
Did it motivate you to learn more?
Answer: 5
Did it make you feel a little more prepared to work with this population?
Answer: 5
Did it increase your interest in working with this population?
Answer: 5
Did it make you want to talk about this subject with a friend or colleague?
Answer: 5
Open Responses
What was one assumption that you had about these individuals (or their families) that was challenged?
Telling our children that “it is going to be ok” implies that it is not ok, which can contribute to their risk of developing a traumatic emotional stress response.
What was the most important takeaway for you?
There were many! The shame and guilt the medical world creates for patients inadvertently with our diagnoses and policies, including the shame and guilt I have felt as a patient. The power dynamic and how it affects us, not only between doctors and patients, but also within the medical offices and units within doctors and nurses etc.
What is one thing you would do differently with your patients in the future?
Continue to improve the “patient-doctor” relationship so that the power dynamic is less and trust improves, …. creating more of a welcoming environment which lessens shame, guilt, and embarrassment, and hopefully, by default, treatment responses do as well. I couldn’t help but think of my patient population (autism/ID/DD) during this podcast, especially with the restraints portion. So many of them are helpless and powerless on a daily basis (!) and cannot verbalize what they are experiencing before, during, or after an intense emotion which unfortunately sometimes leads to restraints. I feel so much for them and want to work harder at being able to identify trauma within this population.
What other topics would be helpful for you in the future?
More about shame and trauma and how to talk to patients about it. How to appropriately ask questions about it and accurately diagnose PTSD.
