67 - Podcasting in a Pandemic: The 2020 Review

We’re trying something revolutionary this year - a 2020 wrap up episode! Join us as we chat about psychs on film; how to cope with things like bushfires, lockdowns and irritations on the holidays and; the little ways the pod has impacted us this year.

Most exciting of all is a return, at about 50 minutes, of the gripe list, with everything from printer issues to uber eats (we know, we’ve been pretty wild this year). To finish it off, we chat about the toxicity of George’s Marvellous Medicine and question whether Hunter or Amy really have a gaming addiction.

We talked about episodes 51 - 66. Find them on:
Our website: www.twoshrinkspod.com/podcasts
Apple: https://tinyurl.com/Apple2SP
Google: https://tinyurl.com/Google2SP

TV shows:
The Simpsons: Season 5, Episode 9, The last temptation of Homer
Miracle Workers: Season 2, episode 7, King Cragnoor in therapy (clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3I2qdlJfQ)

Gripe letters:
www.twoshrinkspod.com/letters

TWCA:
Personality & internet gaming disorder: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11469-019-00081-6.pdf
Toxicity of George’s Marvellous Medicine: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4467 

65 - How to Reduce Social Anxiety

Ever find yourself getting anxious about talking to new people, avoiding speaking in work meetings or overanalysing something you’ve said? Then this episode is for you. We chat about practical ways to start to work on social anxiety - calming yourself, challenging your thoughts and experimenting with new skills.

To wrap up the show Amy has a bone to pick with critics of cryving (driving while crying) and Hunter rhapsodised over the appeal of simple desserts.

Clark’s cognitive model of social anxiety

Social anxiety resources:
Social awkwardness

International Handbook of Social Anxiety by Crozier & Alden

Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Phobia by Heimberg & Becker

Things we came across:
Don’t cry while you’re driving by Jeon

The commonness fallacy (predicting dessert choices) by Reit & Critcher

07 - Why Are Doctors in Training Stressed?

This week we talk at length about doctors in training and the high rates of stress that they experience. We've tried to give an overview of the literature and so it is a grab bag of articles looking at resilience factors, prevalence of distress, emotional coping strategies as well as emerging treatments. We then take a lengthy detour (or perhaps more aptly termed a cul de sac) into a discussion about what doctors and psychologists/psychiatrists wear in our segment 'things we came across'.

Hunter's articles:

Graduate entry medical students : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26498151

 CBT for perfectionism in medical students: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28397103

What not to wear (psychiatry attire): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40596-016-0611-2

Amy's articles: 

Potential predictors of distress in medical students: https://www.dovepress.com/potential-predictors-of-psychological-distress-and-well-being-in-medic-peer-reviewed-article-AMEP

(How) do medical students regulate their emotions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154027/

Doctor's attire (Korea) : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22445730

Doctor's attire (Hawai'i) : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=slippers+and+a+white+coat

03 - Identity & How it Changes in Relation to a Psychological Disorder (Schizophrenia, PTSD)

03 - On this pod we discuss identity and how it changes when someone develops schizophrenia or when they are traumatised and develops Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We talk about the ways identity can change and how this can be related to symptoms/outcome. We have a pretty in-depth discussion that should be of interest to anyone who knows someone with schizophrenia or who has been traumatised, or if you have worked with anyone experiencing these problems. We finish up with our segment 'things we came across'. 

The sound levels are a little off in this one - we got a second mic and in the excitement of setting it up we didn't adjust the levels properly. 

Article Links:

Trauma and identity

Schizophrenia and identity

Amputee envy

Espionage and psychopathology

02 - Therapeutic Alliance when Working with Adults & Children, Dog & Cat People, Astronauts

Pod 02 - We discuss two articles looking at the therapeutic alliance between client and therapist. Hunter talks about a study with adults and how the alliance impacts on therapy outcomes. Amy talks about the differences/challenges in therapeutic alliance when working with children. We finish up with some interesting articles in 'things we came across'. 

Therapeutic alliance predicts outcome (adults) 

Therapeutic alliance and working with children

Dog and Cat People

Astronauts