Behavioral Health

Advocate Clinician ePatient Podcasts

Help the Helpers in Crisis

Crisis: the point where a person finds themselves unable to cope. In these times of…

Danny van LeeuwenJuly 26, 2020

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Advocate Caregiver Clinician ePatient Podcasts

PTSD. We Gotta Get Out of This Place.

Post-Covid PTSD: the next epidemic wave. Survivors, family, health workers. Connect, manage stress, build small…

Danny van LeeuwenMay 31, 2020

Advocate ePatient Podcasts

Peer Support: Patience and Kindness

Everybody possesses innate wisdom about themselves. I don't know the answer to your question, but…

Danny van LeeuwenFebruary 23, 2020

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Independent Community Benefit Practice

Michael Mittelman received three kidneys via transplant, his current kidney from a living donor, his…

Danny van LeeuwenOctober 27, 2019

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From the Inside Looking Out

At the #PCORI2017 Annual Meeting, Alan Alda showed us a simple mirror improv exercise (remember…

DannyNovember 5, 2017

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Health Hats – 2016 in Review

I've been feeling my oats in 2016 as an advocate and catalyst for Empowering people…

DannyJanuary 16, 2017

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Fractured Communication in Crises

This week two of my readers described experiences of fractured communication with their clinicians. One…

DannyMay 29, 2016

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I’m So Discouraged

Several times this week I heard a variation on: I'm so discouraged, I thought I…

DannyMay 1, 2016

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A Powerful Union: Relationships within Health Teams

The relationship between health team members, especially people and their clinicians and caregivers, frequently arises…

DannyOctober 13, 2013

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Patient Adherence – Lessons from Recovery

I attended a planning meeting of the #PatientAdherence Working Group in Newark, NJ on Thursday.…

DannyOctober 20, 2012