As in many professions, academicians in psychiatry and other related disciplines often face tension and conflict in their attempts to balance professional demands and accomplishment with personal obligations and interests (13). The purpose of this perspective is to share one fathers approach to dealing with this common tension. The reflections I offer were stimulated by an informal professional development meeting coordinated by my department chair, focused on balancing personal and professional demands and goals within an academic department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine. My perspectives are further filtered through my research faculty position, as a nonclinician, within the department. This position, which is neither "soft" money nor "hard" money, consists of 3-year renewable contracts. Given that promotions and salary increases are historically based on grant revenue and publication counts, there is considerable professional incentive to produce academically. It is ironic that I should be in a quasi-soft money academic position. For 17 years, beginning in junior high and continuing through my late 20s, I was involved with a community-based organizationfirst as a participant in its volunteer leadership program, then post-college as a program coordinator, eventually becoming associate director. At age 28, I entered a doctoral psychology program with
Child Planning Required: A Father's Perspective on Balancing Career and Family Within Academic Psychiatry
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As in many professions, academicians in psychiatry and other related disciplines often face tension and conflict in their attempts to balance professional demands and accomplishment with personal obligations and interests (13). The purpose of this perspective is to share one fathers approach to dealing with this common tension. The reflections I offer were stimulated by an informal professional development meeting coordinated by my department chair, focused on balancing personal and professional demands and goals within an academic department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine. My perspectives are further filtered through my research faculty position, as a nonclinician, within the department. This position, which is neither "soft" money nor "hard" money, consists of 3-year renewable contracts. Given that promotions and salary increases are historically based on grant revenue and publication counts, there is considerable professional incentive to produce academically. It is ironic that I should be in a quasi-soft money academic position. For 17 years, beginning in junior high and continuing through my late 20s, I was involved with a community-based organizationfirst as a participant in its volunteer leadership program, then post-college as a program coordinator, eventually becoming associate director. At age 28, I entered a doctoral psychology program with
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Child Planning Required: A Father's Perspective on Balancing Career and Family Within Academic Psychiatry
Seal, David Wyatt
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, Volume 31 (2): 143
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Apr 1, 2007
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