Why First Responders And Clinicians Still Need Human Supervision

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

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

5.0 • 21 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Supervision used to be something you could reach for without fear or apology, and a lot of us built our careers on that kind of steady mentorship. Recording with Dennis Sweeney, Chris Gordon, Bob Cherney, Andy Kang, and Pat Rice, we get real about what’s changed in mental health and first responder support, and what it costs when clinicians and teams try to do complex work in isolation. We dig into why the supervision relationship matters so much for crisis intervention, add...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.
0:06.1	This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,
0:11.4	EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.
0:17.5	Let's get started.
0:29.1	Okay. their teams. Let's get started. Well, hi, everyone, and welcome to this will come out in April, but we're recording in
0:33.8	February, and we tried to record in January January and every single time we've had a snow
0:40.2	emergency in the state of Massachusetts. So we haven't been able to go studio. So I suggested let's do
0:46.6	Zoom again one more time with this great group of guys that you guys have met before many,
0:51.2	many times and this is the mental men. I want to welcome Dennis,
0:55.2	Chris, Bob, Andrew, and Pat. How you doing, guys? Hey. Good, Steve. Oh, thanks. Thank you.
1:02.2	The blizzard of 26. That's what we're recording in right now. And that's what it's going to be
1:07.6	a great memory. And, you know the whole loss of canada and hockey twice
1:11.6	will fade away by the time this comes out but i really you know it's interesting is that i hadn't
1:17.9	had the metal band in a while and we're looking at may and singularly in may to record because we're
1:22.9	going to get screwed either way if we do through hurricane season or blizzard season. But we will go back to the studio.
1:28.6	I promise everyone's going to see that because that's something I wanted to do.
1:33.2	I know everyone's been introduced quickly before, but let's do it again just in case we have
1:37.9	some new viewers.
1:38.9	And if you are new, please like and subscribe to my channel, resilience development and
1:44.0	action.
1:44.5	So Dennis, you want to go in a quick intro?
1:47.5	Dennis Sweeney, LMHC, have a private practice and primarily focus on addiction and recovery,
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