Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

medical education research, and teaching residents and medical students.

So, in this episode, I will be interviewing Dr. William Britt, PhD-level clinical psychologist,

a colleague and friend of mine, an expert in cognitive behavioral therapy, object relations

therapy, and EMDR, and a board-certified neuropsychologist.

I work closely with Dr. Britt at the University Outpatient Center that I work at,

and really enjoy referring patients to him because he does a marvelous job,

and the patients get better quickly, and they really connect with him well,

and they really appreciate the work that he does for them.

He also works closely with psychiatric residents and teaches them about suicide in a series of classes.

Dr. Britt and I are going to have a discussion about some groups he has been running

for a child psychiatric hospital for the last 30 years.

Children are brought either by their parents, or they have tried to commit suicide

and are brought in, or they're put on a hold and then brought to a psychiatric hospital.

In this episode, he's going to be talking about the type of group he runs,

how the population has changed over time, how bullying has changed over time,

cyber bullying, and how social media plays into it,

and how he helps them move out of suicidal thoughts and cognitive errors into a place of a less desire to kill themselves.

We're also going to talk about some cultural pieces, like 13 Reasons Why,

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