Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Pages

▼

Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2024

Education for gifted teens

I'm uncomfortable with the term "gifted" since it implies that some people have "gifts" while others do not. Really...

View web version

About Me

GK: I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.