Modern parenting hasn't made children safer; it has just burdened them with the weight of adult anxieties. In this episode, host Sharlee Dixon sits down with Dr. Will Dobud. Dr. Dobud is an award-winning researcher, educator, and social worker recognized for his international expertise in youth mental health and clinical excellence. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Australia’s largest social work school, and has a distinguished career practicing across the United States, Australia, and Norway. As the co-author of the new book “Kids These Days,” Dr. Dobud is a leading advocate for "positive deviance," challenging harmful industry fads to create environments where teenagers can truly thrive. Today, I’m joined by Will to explore the "wicked problem" of youth mental health by examining how modern interference, over-medicalization, and the "safety trap" are harming adolescent development, ultimately offering "positive deviance" and a return to risky, independent experience as the keys to truly empowering the next generation.

Housing policy isn't just an economic framework, it’s public health. When systemic market friction traps buyers and tenants, the human cost is chronic hypervigilance and a steady erosion of psychological safety. In this episode, host Sharlee Dixon and Peter Finger break down the numbers behind America's housing crunch (a 4.7 million home deficit, surging prices, doubled mortgage rates) and explore what that strain is doing to people's stress levels, relationships, and sense of self-worth. They cover how remote work, corporate property buyers, and migration out of the Northeast and West Coast have reshaped affordability, why millions of homeowners feel "locked in" to their current rates, and the widening generational wealth gap between millennials who bought low and a Gen Z now priced out. Sharlee shares her own family's recent home-buying experience, far more grueling than their first purchase a decade ago despite stronger finances, as a window into how automation and tighter underwriting have made the process feel dehumanizing, even demoralizing.

What do we do when know a colleague is making an unethical action or choice?

Our Code of Ethics requires us to take action to address a colleagues’ impairment or unethical conduct. When you acquire direct knowledge of a colleague’s impairment due to personal problems, psychological distress, substance abuse, mental health difficulties, or unethical conduct, you should consult with that colleague, if feasible, and help them take remedial action. 

When you believe that the impairment or conduct is interfering with their practice effectiveness and that the colleague has not taken adequate steps to address the impairment, you should take action through appropriate channels developed by your employer, the agency, a licensing or regulatory body, and other professional organizations.

You are working in a group practice and notice that one of your colleagues tends to have a drink in between seeing clients. How do you handle this situation?

a. Tell your other colleagues in the group and have a group intervention.

b. Discreetly confront the colleague about his drinking.

c. Contact the BBS.

d. Encourage your colleague to contact an ethics board for advice.

Come back later this week for the answer and rationale posted in the comments. Share your answer in the comments below!