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Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

E.72 Why Crisis Work Is A Great Learning Experience With Susan Roggendorf, Cara Tirrell, And Bill Dwinnells

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Substance Use, Mental Health, Psychology, Education, Counseling, Social Sciences, Honest, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

5.021 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss with three former and current emergency services for mental health and substance use issues, Susan Roggendorf, Cara Tirrell, and Bill Dwinnells. We discuss the highs and lows of the work we have done, how we got into the work, how it brought us closer to first responders, as well as some of the difficulties we all face. We also debate the word suicidality and how it is interpreted from a crisis clinician's point of view versus those who have never ...

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy.

0:05.3

I'm your host, Steve Biesel.

0:07.7

The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the

0:13.6

wide array of conversations you can have in therapy.

0:17.2

I also talk to guests about therapy, their experience with therapy, and how psychology is present in many places in their lives.

0:25.6

I also share personal stories.

0:27.8

So please join me on this journey about therapy.

0:32.4

Hi and welcome to episode 72 of finding your way through therapy.

0:36.4

I am Steve Bison.

0:37.3

If you haven't listened to episode 71 yet, your way through therapy. I am Steve Biesel.

0:40.1

If you haven't listened to episode 71 yet, please do so.

0:45.5

Review a chapter in my book about the unique challenges of first responders.

0:48.0

Talk about different things, including stigma.

0:49.6

So I hope you go and listen to it.

0:54.0

But episode 72 is with three, yes, three returning guests.

0:56.0

The first one is Bill Duanelles.

0:59.1

Bill Duanels is someone I worked with on a crisis team years ago.

1:05.3

He is someone who is currently still working in what we call emergency services now.

1:08.8

And always happy to have Bill on.

1:13.7

Kara Terrell actually works out of my office and is an amazing counselor and really enjoy talking to her generally outside of work, but we've done two shows

1:19.5

with Bill too and couldn't wait to have her on again. And we added Susan Rogendorf. I think that

1:26.2

you remember Susan from episode 58.

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