TPP 245: Dr. Marsha Brown on Mental Health, Stress Management, and Educating Law Enforcement About Neurodivergence
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Dr. Marsha Brown’s professional background and why did she choose forensic and clinical psychology?
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Welcome to Tilled Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Marsha Brown, a licensed psychologist with a specialty in forensic and clinical psychology. In addition to Marsha's interest in increasing understanding of topics surrounding mental health, culture, bias, and forensic psychology, she's also the host of the new podcast, The Self-Care Chronicle, launched last fall. And you all know how I feel about self-care by now, so I highly encourage you to check that out. In this conversation, we cover a lot of different topics, from what Marcia is seeing right now with kids and teens during the COVID nineteen pandemic, to her work educating law enforcement officers about interacting with neurodivergent individuals, to why she created the Self Care Chronicle podcast and what she aims to do with it.
This is another episode especially well suited for this moment in time. I hope you get a lot out of it. And now here is my conversation with Doctor Marsha Brown. Hello, Doctor Brown. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here. I'm really looking forward to this conversation as I was reading more about your work. The girl and me who wrote a book about careers for teenage exploration. Um, what do you want to do when you grow up? I'm like, oh my gosh, girls would have loved to read about what you do because it's fascinating. So could you take a few minutes and just tell us more kind of about the work that you do in the world? And also I'd love to know your personal why for doing that work.
Yes, absolutely. Um, so I am a licensed psychologist. Uh I am in private practice. My private practice uh has changed in the um almost five years that I've I've been doing it now. What I do now uh is I work a lot with people um on mental health, uh education and awareness, stress management and self care. And I work largely with people in high stress occupations.
How does Dr. Brown help high‑stress professionals (lawyers, first responders, etc.) manage stress and avoid burnout?
So, for example, people who are in The legal field, the mental health field, law enforcement and uh sometimes um medical health care. And so with them I just work to um educate on, you know, mental health, symptoms of mental health. I also help them to uh I call it deconstruct your stress. So being able to really, you know, as a person who has to function and high stress occupation, break that down and make it so that they're not so, you know, overwhelmed um in situations where they have, you know, a lot of responsibilities and a lot of things coming at them. And then also just teaching them to take better care of themselves. Um, what my practice started out as was uh forensics. And so I worked with the court um in family court, criminal court, and civil court.
And that was largely just um doing psychological evaluations to help inform the court in cases where there was, you know, a custody battle going on or a case where someone who was accused of Committing a crime. needed some kind of evaluation to determine how much mental illness was a factor or how much mental health impacted the behavior. Um and then in just civil cases, things like uh psychological damages. Um, in terms of the why of this work, um, I like I I mentioned, I started out in forensics and I was just always fascinated by uh human behavior and why people made the decisions that they made. So for example, since I was Since I was nine years old, I used to re read uh true crime novels, uh, which are just basically they they outline an actual crime that happened and they talk a little bit about everybody who was involved and what the event was and you know kind of the events that transpired leading up to whatever crime took place.
I was just always fascinated by that and uh not just human behavior but criminal behavior and that kind of led me on the path to
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Dr. Marsha Brown’s professional background and why did she choose forensic and clinical psychology?
0:00–2:34
2
How does Dr. Brown help high‑stress professionals (lawyers, first responders, etc.) manage stress and avoid burnout?
2:34–6:57
3
What strategies does she use when working with families and neurodivergent adolescents?
6:57–11:22
4
How does the Broward County Sheriff’s Crisis Intervention Team train officers to recognize and de‑escalate neurodivergent behavior?
11:22–15:06
5
Why has the COVID‑19 pandemic increased anxiety for neurodivergent kids and what are the main warning signs?
15:06–19:16
6
What practical routines can parents create at home to reduce stress and help neurodivergent children cope with change?
19:16–22:53
7
What is the Self‑Care Chronicle podcast and how does it support mental‑health professionals and caregivers?
22:53–26:18
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Where can listeners learn more about Dr. Brown’s services, training programs, and resources?
26:18–29:27
Speakers
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