I’m watching twitter, google+ and the web so you don’t have to… This post is part of a weekly (or bi-weekly) series, Best in Mental Health, featuring some of the best posts of the week, in social work, psychology, evidence-based practice/healthcare, non-profit and private practice concerns.
Evidence Based Practice/Healthcare:
Digital is just a fad
Co-producing digital mental health (Victoria)
“Low health literacy is closely linked to poor outcomes and mortality… Information and services are increasingly digital – digital skills are increasingly linked to health literacy… Those who are least likely to be online are those who most need health and care services…”
Everything I needed to know about the menopause… No One Told Me
Evidently Cochrane (June Girvin)
“there is some real suffering out there… mostly in silence… Miriam Stoppard’s ‘Menopause: The Complete Guide to Maintaining Health and Well-being and Managing… based on real experience… evidenced-based…”
Suicide prevention in schools: all plain SEYLE-ing?
The Mental Elf (Stephen Wood)
“a large-scale, European programme was developed called the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) study… effectiveness of various preventive interventions… a universal intervention can have significant impact…”
Social Work:
Advocacy in Albany: A Legislative Action Day
SocialWorkSynergy (Pat Shelly)
“we were on a mission to meet with our Senators and Assemblymembers to advance two very important issues… passage of the NYS Dream Act by the NYS Senate… obtain increased funding for the New York Licensed Social Worker Loan Forgiveness Program…”
Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) for Depressed and Suicidal Youth
The Social Work Podcast (Jonathan B. Singer, LCSW with Guy Diamond and Suzanne Levy)
“ABFT is the only family-based psychotherapy with empirical support for reducing suicidal ideation in youth… Dr. Diamond mostly covers theory and concepts, and Dr. Levy addresses the question of “what does the therapist actually do in the therapy room.”…”
Empower Your Clients to Achieve Financial Success with S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Center for Financial Social Work (Reeta Wolfsohn, CMSW)
“financial goals are an important and integral part of their financial success… Goals teach patience, motivate achievement and reward planned actions. And, because they are solution-oriented, goals create both unconscious and conscious positive movement towards a conclusion…”
Follow-up to Live Twitter Chat on March 12, 2015
Teaching Social Work by Laurel Hitchcock
” Jimmy Young and I hosted… about the documentary Inequality for All… almost 100 people… chat transcript… Twitter chats a compelling learning tool… students… public discourse on vital policy issues with their peers and other professionals…”
The Growing Opportunity Gap Facing American Children
Social Justice Solutions (Reuben Thomas Finighan, University of Melbourne)
“social mobility in the US is now among the lowest in the OECD… Soaring income inequality is a primary cause of the growing opportunity gap… restore working-class income… most promising intervention is early childhood education…”
How I Became a Social Work Leader
The New Social Worker Online (Lakeya Cherry, MSSW)
“It’s imperative that… we realize our own strength, power, and abilities to effect change. We make a difference in the world every day, but it’s not until we see ourselves as the leaders we are that the world will see us for our worth and begin to value us…”
Live Through This Photo
Stuck on Social Work
“a suicide attempt survivor… interviewed attempt survivors and… took their picture… great tool for mental health clinicians… their stories are complex… tool to reduce the stigma and fear around this important clinical issue…”
Kristie Holmes Presents Micro to Macro
The Political Social Worker (Rachel L. West)
“Micro to Macro covers how Dr. Holmes ended up running for a congressional seat… why social workers should be politically engaged and how they can do so… value yourself… don’t reinvent the wheel… network the over 700,000 of us…”
Police, Minority Communities, and Trauma
“In SITU” (David Eisenberg, LCSW, Ph.D.)
“distrust of State authority can be really strong in some communities leading officers – racist or not – to experience repeatedly… lack of cooperation, anger and violence… field could make a huge contribution… if we engaged in the space between the two…”
The Problem with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Social Work Helper (Vu Le)
“the dissonance between their usage and actual practice is like getting poked in the eye on a daily basis… Equity requires the embrace of risk and failure… staff from communities of color are critical when working with communities of color…”
Should disabled parents be allowed to keep their kids
Child Protection Lessons (Peter Choate)
“disabilities require their own form of assessment for parental capacity… Can the parent identify current needs and respond?… If there are limits to the above, what supports are in place or could be put in place…”
Social Work Education in Another Land: The Brockport Vietnam Project
inSocialWork, UBSSW (Ken Herrmann and Susan Herrmann)
“an international social work educational program… project’s mission, how it operates, its work in the local communities, and the learning opportunities and takeaways for students… instructive for… programs in developing countries…”
Social Work Practice Prepared Her for Politics, Says Zambia’s First Woman Vice President
CSSW
“The field of social work is one of the most noble and valuable but totally underrated professions in the world… It’s important for governments to engage people with social work backgrounds because they understand problem solving much better…”
What’s the Difference Between Research and Evaluation?
Nicole Clark Consulting
“Evaluation… how effective your programs and services are, and if the desired outcomes of the program/service line up with what participants are experiencing… research wants to know if a particular variable caused a particular effect (causation)…”
Psychology:
7 Practices That Nurture Respect In Children
Dr. Michele Borba
“children learn respect best from witnessing and experiencing respect… treat them as though they are the most important people in the world… Give love with no strings attached… When your child talks, stop everything and focus completely…”
7 Tips For Building Self-Confidence
Prosper with Aspergers (Stephen Borgman)
“Recognize the Difference Between Self Esteem and Self Confidence… attention deficit disorder struggles can lead to low-self esteem in adults… Develop Self-Knowledge… Positive and Realistic Self Acceptance with a New Reference Group…”
Aid workers’ mental health: shouting into the wind
Mindfulnext (Alessandra Pigni)
“The fact that now it’s ok to talk about staff care doesn’t seem to translate into things being done better. Training is used as the way to build resilience and prevent burnout… Unless we give it appropriate time and space, you cannot workshop people into burnout prevention…”
Autism Spectrum Disorder de-escalation strategies: Avoiding confrontation and Nonverbal Communication
JKP Blog
““sideways is safest”… look confident, naturally smile, reduce body language by getting sideways on and stick to a positive script… be relaxed with body language… try to align our non-verbal messages with the words we use…”
Developing Hope in PTSD Recovery
Healthy Place (Michele Rosenthal)
“what helps us rebuild our lives after trauma, including: Dedicating ourselves to meaningful work… Committing to family relationships… Clinging to hope was, has been and always will be one of the most effective survival strategies…”
Exercise: Relax!
Healing from Trauma
“exercise is just one example of how to use visualization to relax the body… addresses the tension we experience when in a fear state… tension represents a holding pattern the body has taken on for self-protection from danger…”
Find Your Inner Art Patron, Quiet Your Inner Critic and Part 2
Inner Canvas (Lisa Mitchell, MFT, ATR)
“to sustain your creativity you, need support… your patron also depends on you to be an artist… if you let your art patron handle talking to your inner critic, you have a better chance… What would your art patron say if… encountered your inner critic…”
Help! The Client Likes Me!
Beginning Counselor by Stephanie Adams
“every feeling we (the counselors) have in a counseling session means something… think through as much as you can… Changing the relationship dynamic is a way that clients can try to manipulate you or change the power dynamic in an unhealthy way…”
The Hope Chest: The writing on the wall
Counseling Today (Kim Johancen-Walt)
“not enough to help our clients identify the source of their ongoing patterns… reveal how these beliefs continue to affect their relationships with themselves and limit their ability to truly heal… seemingly slow moments in therapy… necessary part of healing…”
The impact of military deployment on children
Research Blogging – Neuroscience (Dr. Jekyll)
“study… following military parents’ return from combat deployment… children show increased visits for mental healthcare… injury, and child maltreatment consults, compared to children whose parents… not… deployed…”
Sexual Interest in Relationships: Navigating the Range Between “Low-to-No” and “High”
Love and Life Toolbox (Richard Nicastro, PhD)
“not uncommon for couples to have an imbalance in sexual desire and sexual interest. Navigating these waters can be a real challenge, with misunderstandings, power struggles and feelings of rejection resulting…particularly… person who feels loved…”
A Therapist and Coach Guide to Encryption
Online Therapy Institute by OTI/OCI
“what using encryption really means… minefield of HIPAA compliancy… Be cautious of what you email to clients and never include their original message when you reply to their email since once you send the message, you are now the provider of the information…”
What Is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
U.S. News (Kirstin Fawcett)
“DID is a disorder that tends to stem from severe, early-childhood trauma — often from extended physical or sexual abuse… Despite its inclusion in the fifth DSM, DID is still considered a controversial diagnosis… Physicians often mistakenly think…”
Nonprofit:
16 Professionals Share Nonprofit Technology Advice via Instagram Video
Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog (Heather Mansfield)
“Take out your phone and make an attempt to make a donation and see what the donor experience is all about… build connections with other nonprofits in your space… There’s new social network called two chairs and a table… keep it simple, keep it easy…”
2015 SXSW Interactive Round Up
NTEN (Joleen Ong)
“sessions highlighting innovations at the intersection of nonprofit technology and social change… Activism That Drives Supporters… Battling Online Harassment… Data Visualization For Social Good… Digital Currency, Banking the Unbanked…”
Private Practice:
Extra! Extra! Using a Newsletter to Build Your Private Practice
Private Practice Toolbox (Julie Hanks, LCSW)
“A newsletter is a letter you send out to your clients and readers updating them on what’s happening with your practice… effective way to connect with your readers and offer some insight on topics related to your specialty… keep in touch…”
Is Your Site Mobile Friendly in Google’s eyes?
Get Down To Business Consulting (Cathy Hanville, LCSW)
“search results will be strongly influenced by mobile factors… First make sure you site is mobile optimized… test whether or not your site is mobile friendly… second thing to test is your page loading speed… make sure you have a passing grade…”
Podcast: How to Leave Your Full Time Counseling Job
Practice of the Practice (Joe Sanok, MA)
“What I learned from my full-time counseling jobs… How I tracked my counseling income and why that matters… How to leave a full-time counseling job work with exact numbers…How to Leave Your Full-time Job Worksheet…”
Talking About Rescue Fantasies, Favorite Books, And Starting Your Private Practice Like a Pro
Private Practice from the Inside Out (Tamara Suttle)
“In… interview… books for new clinicians to support them in their clinical work… questions you’re likely to be asked when interviewing to join a group practice, books that have helped me grow my business brain, and more…”
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