Featuring Dr. Matthew May
In today’s podcast, Matt, Rhonda and David discuss four challenging questions from podcast fans like you:
1. what do you do with patients who use marijuana excessively but have no interest in changing or reducing their use?
2. How do you help clients control their anger?
3. How can you use TEAM if you are only allowed to see clients for 15 to 20 minutes?
4. If David never went into the medical / mental health field, what career path do you think you would have chosen?
The answers on the show are live and will differ considerably from the information below, which is primarily to document the full questions that the fans submitted.
Heeelllloooooo Rhonda, Matt and David! Great podcast and always love when you three come together. Something that really piqued my interest during this podcast was when David mentioned the latest developments with the Feeling Good App. I always had passing thoughts of whether David would implement A.I. into his app and when I heard he was experimenting with it I thought: “Oh man, that will be a game changer”. Especially when he said things like “It works even faster than I do”. In my opinion this technology is extremely powerful and its potential in therapy could be far-reaching. Especially with the TEAM-CBT framework being so structured and systematic. And I may be catastrophizing a tad but I could imagine a scenario where this technology takes over completely for TEAM-CBT therapists (and other therapists in other modalities). But I also wondered what Rhonda and Matt were thinking while David was mentioning all of this. I feel there was kind of an elephant in the room, maybe best encapsulated by the thought: “Will this take over my job?”. Personally I have gained so much from TEAM therapy just by doing it on my own and have been seriously thinking about pursuing a career in counselling. But hearing about these A.I. developments gave me mixed feelings. On one hand, people around the world have problems accessing mental health care and this could be an amazing opportunity to give those people the care they need. On the other hand, these tools could be so powerful that it would completely eliminate the need for human therapists to exist. Again, some black and white thinking going on there. Just thought it might be interesting to hear some dialogue between you guys on how you feel about the new developments with the app and how it may affect your livelihoods or how you do therapy. You guys are the best and I appreciate all that you do.
Great question, sent to Matt and Rhonda and will try to feature this on our next Ask David podcast recording session!
Warmly, david