Frontiers Friday #82. Random currents
Frontiers Friday #82. Random Currents
Every now and then, Frontiers Friday takes a turn to random and timely stuff. This week, we'd do just that.
See below for 3 exciting updates.
Here's this week's Frontiers Friday Five Recommendations.
✍️ New From My Desk: Take Note of These 4 Perennial Factors of Your Clients
I’m amazed it has taken me about 2 decades of writing case-notes to finally come up with this system for myself. I’ve been using this particular format to capture what I call “evergreen” information, that is, information that are not time-bound and salient.
In this post, I've also included a template to prime you to take note of the 4Ss: Sense of Self, Sparks, Systemic and Significant Event.
Let me know if this is of any use to you.
🎧 Listen: New Podcast with Thoughts on Record on Deliberate Practice
So much of our ideas around deliberate practice is ever evolving. Pete Kelly from Thoughts on Record interviewed me a few weeks ago on this topic. I hope I covered some of our more recent thinking around DP.
A sample of topics we covered:
- structuring deliberate practice at early career, mid-career & late career (time commitment, logistics etc.)
- the most effective way to structure, frame and provide feedback to a clinician
- balancing deliberate practice with the demands of day-to-day clinical life through habit formation.
- and more...
See the shownotes for more.
✋🛑 Read/Watch/Alert: The Pfizer Documents
I know we are all fatigued with COVID-19 news on other platforms. But I think it is important to understand what's happening behind the scenes, because some of your clients might be facing real conflict about this, even without the conspiratorial angle.
In gist, Pfizer attempted to block the release of clinical trial documents up until 55 years later. This is criminally insane that in the midst of a pandemic, FDA even allowed that non-transparency of data. Were they hoping that the next generation--55 years later-- would forget what they've done?
Thankfully, a federate judge in Texas ruled against this. Now, in the coming year, we are going to get dribbles of what they are hiding.
Here's a good video that walks you through the documents.
Even the world's oldest general medical journal British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently released a call to have the raw data, now."We are left with publications but no access to the underlying data on reasonable request. This is worrying for trial participants, researchers, clinicians, journal editors, policy makers, and the public."
On the lack of transparency and trust:
"We are left with publications but no access to the underlying data on reasonable request. This is worrying for trial participants, researchers, clinicians, journal editors, policy makers, and the public.
Big pharma is the least trusted industry. At least three of the many companies making covid-19 vaccines have past criminal and civil settlements costing them billions of dollars.31 One pleaded guilty to fraud. Other companies have no pre-covid track record. Now the covid pandemic has minted many new pharma billionaires, and vaccine manufacturers have reported tens of billions in revenue."
The BMJ supports vaccination policies based on sound evidence. As the global vaccine rollout continues, it cannot be justifiable or in the best interests of patients and the public that we are left to just trust “in the system,” with the distant hope that the underlying data may become available for independent scrutiny at some point in the future."Love the Brits.
🎼 Listen/Watch: Samantha Crain Bloomsday
I love this song... She took the lyrics "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine" one step beyond my expectations.
To watch a live performance of Bloomsday, click here.
To listen, click here.
⏸ Words Worth Contemplating:
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."
~ Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1946).
Reflection: What is Your Why? Why do you do what you? What do you really care about?
3 Updates:
1. Research Paper Submission:
Finally...We've submitted our Difficult Conversations in Therapy (DCT) Deliberate Practice RCT for review and publication. I wanna thank the DCT team for the years of collaboration on this since 2014 (gosh). This includes Sharon Lu, Geoffrey Tan, Tammie Quek, Adam Jones, Scott Miller, and Mark Hubble. I want to particularly thank Sharon for our early days collaboration, as I would have long given up on this project without your enthusiasm and contribution.
Finger's crossed if this gets through the journal we submitted to.
Why did this study take so long to be released? This is the problem with being an independent researcher, meaning, not being affiliated to any educational institution. This means that this isn't my "bread and butter." I've no financial or career incentive to be publishing research. Other competing demands have taken precedence over the past few years. But my colleagues reminds me that this is important to get this out and share it. Thanks to the DCT team for the push.
2. New Aussie Book Coming Out in May 2022
Spearheaded by my down under colleagues, Kaye Frankcomm, Raelyn Wicklein, Nathan Castle, Aaron Frost, we've a new book call Creating Impact coming out around May-Jun this year. It's aimed for private practitioners.
Stay tuned for in the coming months.
3. New Book: The Field Guide to Better Results
Together with Scott and Mark, and our new collaborator from UK, Sam Malins, we've got a new follow-up edited book to Better Results, called The Field Guide to Better Results.
This time, you'd get to hear from other giants in our field like on how to take the ideas we've fleshed out in Better Results, one step further––especially in terms of how to fully utilise the Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities worksheet.
Slated to be released second half of 2022.
Here's a sketchnote that I was mapping out for a chapter in this book:
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