Exploring the self asked question, "do I have enough skills to manage some of my patients?"

Real Clinicians Real Chats

Kit and Alex discuss the question and common thought we have as clinicians “do we have enough skills to assess and manage some of our patients?”

Themes that emerge include:

The practitioner’s experience of feeling a lack of worth in session and how this influences our interactions.

How thoughts questioning our worth and knowledge can reduce staying in the present when treating, the value of being grounding ourselves and being present in a session, how we might employ this skill and the benefit it has when we are experiencing these feelings and emotions.

The seduction of trying to solve our feelings around our lack of knowledge with more knowledge seeking, instead of dealing with how we can improve our own concept of self worth.

How we as practitioners might be reinforcing our clients disconnection and distance from their symptoms and problems by disconnecting from our own experiences around our knowledge, skills and worth.

The challenge of being present as a clinician and paying attention to our own embodied experience, and resisting overanalysing whilst still problem solving, providing a plan, and educating the patient when needed

Kit shares how she and Shelley Barlow held a workshop last year with a small group of health professionals exploring the practitioner experience within a novel learning container. Alex and Kit reflect on our own personal experiences, our own knowledge and concept of self-worth and what thoughts and feelings came up for each of us during our chat.

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www.wisephysiotherapy.com.au

Special thanks to Clariloops for our theme music.