The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy Interdisciplinary Teams
Curt and Katie talk about treatment teaming as a therapist. We look at why you should do it, things to consider, and what it looks like in different settings.
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
In this episode we talk about:
- Treatment teams as the most effective way to work with clients
- The education gap for people related to creating treatment teams
- The difficulty with the model of the therapist being the primary agent for change
- The different roles of treatment team members, especially as a therapist
- The distinction between diagnosis for medical necessity and for the clinical case conceptualization
- Specific things related to working with psychiatrists
- The challenge related to perceived hierarchy within the profession
- The value of having a treatment team leader and how to identify who should be the leader
- The importance of having a lot of information and additional perspectives
- The scope of practice considerations and how to talk with someone who has a different scope
- Fragmented communication within treatment teams
- Community Mental Health programs that require treatment teaming
- The different way that we set up a treatment teams when we’re in private practice
- Confidentiality and communication concerns when treatment teaming
- How to interact with the other team members
- The educational considerations related to treatment teaming
- The “mercenary” reason to do treatment teaming
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