Blog posts with the tag "Guest Perspective"

Guest Perspective: My Experience with The Summer Institute

By  on 21.10.2024 12:34 pm

Considering a career as a military social worker can raise a lot of questions. It can also seem like the more you find out, the more questions you have. The career of a uniformed social worker comes with the expectation that you not only work with service members, but that you are a service member. This is different from someone who would work in private practice or with an organization that has scheduled hours and tasks, and typically stays in one location. It is different from only considering the best interests of your patient and performing social work duties. So how does someone learn what to expect?

Guest Perspective: Evolving Challenges of Deployment Communication

By  on 10.11.2021 8:37 am

Most Service members see deployments as short term intervals, usually interruptions, in their lives. Family, however, is usually viewed as a constant. Communicating with our families, friends, and loved ones while we are deployed is a critical concern for nearly every Service member. Many find it difficult to strike a balance between trying to manage personal and family relationships and remaining focused on the mission and the needs of fellow Service members while deployed. Below is an abbreviated look at how deployment communication has changed over my career, ways my family and I have tried to adapt, and a look at future deployment communication challenges.

Guest Perspective: Guilt, Shame, and Moral Injury from Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By  on 16.07.2020 3:44 pm

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the U.S. and around the world have faced agonizing and ethically difficult situations where they feel like they cannot do enough or are unable to live up to their own standards. Some examples include not being able to be there in person to care for an infected family member, worrying about exposing others to infection, being unable to provide for their family due to job loss, or being unable to adequately care for children and their education during school closures.

Guest Perspective: Because We Care - Risk for Moral Injury During the Covid-19 Pandemic

By Bill Nash  on 05.06.2020 11:01 am

For all its power to terrify, Covid-19 can’t keep us from marveling at the courage of frontline human service workers all over the world. They are braving not only the physical dangers of repeated exposure to the deadly virus, but also the emotional dangers of empathically sharing so much suffering with so many, and the moral dangers of possibly being unable to save every savable life, such as when intensive care services become overwhelmed. Their courage seems all the more remarkable given that all three of these dangers are invisible, operating mostly outside of anyone’s immediate awareness.

Guest Perspective: Think Outside of the Box

By Carolyn Furdek  on 14.02.2018 2:54 pm

As medical practitioners, it’s easy to get into routines, customary practice guidelines and well-organized treatment regimes.  I’m well aware, as with any situation or job, it can be very challenging and frightening to step outside of your comfort zone and push the boundaries. Yet, every single patient and situation is different.  Each person is unique, has a different story, and is looking to you for help. Let’s face it, sometimes you run across that unicorn; the square peg that will not fit in that round hole. That is why I have been asked to write to you today.  I’m here to share with you a story, my story about a life and a family that was saved by two mental health practitioners thinking outside of that box.  Those practitioners brought a soldier out of what seemed like a hopeless situation that had baffled doctors across the country for over a decade.

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