This assignment focuses on ethics, empathy and leadership. As you know, business people are busy. Often, our job is to write messages that are highly readable and accessible, so that our readers can understand our messages as quickly and easily as possible.

Ethics, Empathy and Leadership.

As you know, business people are busy. Often, our job is to write messages that are highly readable and accessible, so that our readers can understand our messages as quickly and easily as possible. In this exercise, you will work to edit a piece of writing to make it easier for fast reading. Your challenge: Reduce this message by at least 50% while still conveying the meaning. Then copy and paste your version into a discussion forum post. Reduce this message: 50% Editing Activity.docx Download 50% Editing Activity.docx.  It will help to: Vary sentence length Keep paragraphs short (125 words or fewer).

Ethics, Empathy and Leadership.

Focus on one concept per paragraph Place key ideas at the beginning Use lists, headings and subheadings for fast reading. Eliminate redundant words and phrases The Article is: Ethics, Empathy, and Leadership Ethics, Empathy, and Leadership I was recently meeting with some fourth-year residents as part of their course on community psychiatry. Since this was an introductory session, we were focusing on the role of the community psychiatrist. We thought about this within both the constraints that many psychiatrists practicing in the community find themselves, and the ideal characteristics and defining features of community psychiatry.

Ethics, Empathy and Leadership.

Even as trainees, these folks could see how the scope of what they were being asked to do was shaped by financial imperatives and was often limited to biologic perspectives on illness management. They clearly felt discouraged by the limitations on their abilities to practice and learn the more dynamic and humanistic aspects of psychiatry, and wondered whether there was any way around this. Their perceptions and experiences were closely aligned with the discussions generated at our winter meeting in March. (The draft report from that meeting can be viewed on our website, or specifically here.)

Ethics, Empathy and Leadership.

And it was not surprising to discover that their exposure to the transformation initiatives that are currently underway and recovery-focused practice were quite limited, even as they prepared for life after residency. This made for an interesting discussion, in any case, that was rather thought provoking. How does one try to convey the essence of community psychiatry in thirty or forty minutes, which was all that remained of the session after the preliminary part of our discussion? In response to one of the resident’s questions, I began to think about what makes community psychiatry community psychiatry. https://youtu.be/FxrMso4g2yw

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He talked about his clinical rotation, in which he saw public-sector clients in a community mental health center. He was scheduled to see patients every 15 – 20 minutes (as a resident!), and he focused on their medications. He wondered whether this was community psychiatry. I told him that to me this sounded like a cheap imitation. We talked about the fact that it was not just the population, the location, or the duration of contact that defined community psychiatry. “So what is it then?” he asked. After looking vacant and scratching my head a while, three words lingered.

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