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Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

E.89 How Are The Challenges Different For Firefighters Than Law Enforcement With Eric Knox, Jay Ball, And Katelyn Dehey

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

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we finally get to talk to a firefighter, Eric Knox, along with regular contributors/guests Katelyn Dehey and Jay Ball. We talk about the unique challenges, including how they are perceived in the community, how they perceive each other, stereotypes, both true and false ones, schedules, cultural challenges, as well as discussing the different situations they are together and when they are not. Eric Knox is a firefighter and earned degrees in Fire...

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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.

0:32.9

Hi, and welcome to episode 89 of finding your way through therapy.

0:36.2

I am Steve Biesel.

0:37.5

If you haven't listened to episode 88 yet, please do so. Go back and listen to Courtney Romanowski,

0:43.1

Stephanie Simpson, and Mooney talk about movement therapy with me and kind of educating me on the whole process.

0:49.4

It was a great conversation, great banter. I felt that everyone got along. It was awesome.

0:56.4

But episode 89 will be with a firefighter this time. We usually do at least one first responder episode per season.

1:02.7

The regular guest that we usually have, Jay Ball, who will probably talk about his new job

1:07.5

as an adjunct professor, but I'll let him do that. He's also a police officer and

1:11.7

army vet. Caitlin Dehe, who's the lead clinician at Westboro Behavioral Health Care, she's also

1:17.5

going to bring up a little bit of that clinic and all the work that she does there. But we also

1:22.8

added a firefighter now. His name is Eric Knox. He's a full-time firefighter for 24 years.

1:29.4

He's earned degrees in fire science and business marketing. He's a full-time dad to his son and

1:34.8

daughter. Huge hockey fan. I think if you go to a YouTube video, you'll see that more in my

1:39.8

Bruins jersey. Long story about that. If you want to write to me, I can tell you what the story was.

1:46.0

But hopefully we'll be able to talk about some of the unique challenges for firefighters versus police.

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