Emergency Workers: Responder Assist – Episode 3 – Treatment options

Listen in to this third episode as your host, clinical psychologist Mark Creamer and co-host Jane Nursey, a clinical neuropsychologist with 30 years' experience, discuss the importance of considering a range of diagnoses, including PTSD, and the common challenges practitioners may face when treating the mental health of emergency workers.

Hear Professor Andrea Phelps’ insights on treatment approaches; the value behavioral therapies provide alongside evidence-based treatments, and how and why nuanced recovery plans are more likely to achieve better outcomes for recovery. Andrea also chats about moral injury: what is it and how does it impact emergency workers? 

Dr. Tony McHugh, clinical psychologist, joins the conversation to share the health benefits of work, and the negative impact and risks associated with psychological injury in the workplace. 

Liked this episode? Tune into the series final where a panel of experts by experience share their personal recovery journeys, through early warning signs, barriers to treatment, and identifying what they found most helpful. 

Emergency Workers: Responder Assist is a podcast series produced in partnership between Phoenix Australia’s Responder Assist, Centre for Excellence in Emergency Worker Mental Health and The Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN).

Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

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