Photo By Sgt. Nicholas Ranum | Lt. Jason M. Duff answers questions on the Shrink Rap radio show at the Armed Forces...... read more read more
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OKINAWA, Japan - Early in the morning in a padded room, Marines and sailors prepare to start their day. The padding is for soundproofing the room, where the Marines are the disc jockeys and the sailors are psychologists. The cue is given and the “Shrink Rap” show begins.
The Armed Forces Network on Plaza Housing hosted the Shrink Rap radio show April 9.
The radio show is designed to give advice, dispel myths and let service members and their families know that it is helpful and healthy to see a mental health specialist.
“Our audience is everyone,” said Lt. Jason M. Duff, a psychologist with the deployment health section at the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa. “We do the show during the main driving time to reach the largest audience. We want them to know what we offer and why we offer it.”
Each show covers different topics that may cause stress to a service member or their family. The most recent show focused on clearing up myths surrounding psychology and its practices.
“We deal with all types of stress,” said Duff. “We take care of combat stress for those service members that have recently returned from deployment. Also, we work with transitional stress from moving into a new culture.”
The show is not designed to actually diagnose anyone, but to give an idea of how mental health specialists operate, said Duff.
“A myth that often comes up is that psychologists automatically go after the childhood,” said Lt. Ashley Clark, a psychologist with the outpatient health section at the USNH Okinawa. “We might have to go through your childhood, but it is not what we start with. We take care of what is causing the stress at that point in time.”
Other myths that were discussed involved the immediate prescription of medication, irreversibly changing your personality and therapists being full of useless advice.
“Professional help is more objective than a friend or family,” said Clark. “They might be trying to save their relationship with you, while we are trying to help you. We have a relationship with you, but we also give constructive feedback too.”
The show has been ongoing since 2009, and each show has different special guests, said Brian J. Davis, the public affairs officer at USNH Okinawa.
The Shrink Rap radio show airs the second Tuesday of every month on Wave 89 FM at 7 a.m.
| Date Taken: | 04.13.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 04.19.2012 20:36 |
| Story ID: | 87014 |
| Location: | PLAZA HOUSING, OKINAWA, JP |
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