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:
How Can We Use a Wealth of Data to Improve the Health of Communities Across the Nation?
Culture of Health (Alonzo L. Plough)
“the 2015 County Health Rankings gives communities an important opportunity to reflect on how they are doing when it comes to the health of their residents… collaboration… move a community toward a Culture of Health…”
Mental health service users on Twitter: a platform for feedback and support?
The Mental Elf (Sarah Knowles)
“review… examines tweets on the #DearMentalHealthProfessionals hashtag… overarching themes… impact of diagnosis… balance of power… unknown whether such online conversations encourage change in opinions…”
Social consequences of digital inequality
Science Daily
“digital inequalities, defined broadly in terms of people’s internet usage, skills and self-perceptions… as important as the ‘traditional axes of inequality’… affect how people find work, build their businesses, shop, access health care…”
Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World
NYTimes (Tina Rosenberg)
” The Global Burden of Disease study… has been going for a quarter century and involves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of scientists… new way to measure health: not just what people die of, but what makes us sick…”
Social Work:
Achieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Learning From History
The New Social Worker Online ( Lisa V. Blitz, Mary Pender Greene, Sandra Bernabei)
“Race history in America is filled with pain and confusion on all sides… Some of us are getting better at listening to the trauma of enslavement of Africans, genocide of Native peoples, and colonial practices that obliterated cultures…”
Caring for Family Members with Severe Mental Illness: Dr. Rachel Pruchno’s Story
CSSW
“hurdle faced by families of the severely mentally ill… legal system… once a person turns 18… make decisions about his or her own health care even in cases of severe mental illness… encourage… clients to develop a health care proxy…”
Getting in Our Own Way: Barriers We Contribute To That Limit Social Change
Relando Thompkins, MSW, LLMSW
“assumptions we make from our places of privilege… make us complicit and complacent with the oppression of others… aligned with believing that all others experience the world… as we do… others should believe that our way is the superior way…”
Helping Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Social Work Helper (Alia Lane)
“There are no two children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or any disorder that affects them the same… Children can easily make bonds with animals which teaches them and later helps them form bonds with other people as well…”
NASW Chat Series with Kathryn Dixon
Storified by Greg Wright
“Forensic Social Work is when a social worker’s clients are involved in the legal system… get front line experience by working with clients in the court… Jonathan Singer… #socialwork & #restorativejustice… next chat… April 16 9 pm ET…”
The Partners for Change Outcome Management System
Stuck on Social Work (Sean Erreger LCSW)
“Dr. Miller developed “Feedback Informed Treatment”… article… brief measure for the therapeutic relationship that also provides user-friendly feedback for both client and therapist… benefits of… continuous feedback…”
Privilege, Difference, & Justice – #MacroSW Twitter Chat
Storified by Rachel L West (Dr. Shane Brady & Dr. Jason Sawyer)
“pressing issues… job creation… lack of respect for different cultures… own your privilege and use it to empower others… tips on how to be an ally… Things change through sustained organizing and action over time… build movements…”
Social Worker’s Guide to Social Media
Virtual Connections (Nancy J. Smyth)
“schools of social work don’t seem to address the professional use of social media, they mostly caution about private social media use. So we decided, at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, to develop this infographic…”
A Social Worker’s Report from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
InSocialWork (UBSSW, Dr. Richard Smith)
“Highlighting Social Work’s long history of working to improve environmental conditions, end poverty, and foster social development, Dr. Smith discusses the conference’s takeaways and the implications for social work practice…”
Technology Trends: Leveraging Technology to Improve Discharge Planning and Care Coordination
Social Work Today (Susan A. Knight)
“As the use of … technologies grows, social workers have an important role to play in their development and implementation to ensure maximum usability and accessibility of the tools… health care sector has steadily been implementing reforms…”
When Veterans and Their Families Come for Help: What Service Providers Need to Know
Behind the Human Curtain (Erica Zulawski, MS, MSW candidate)
“Many veterans fail to get the help they need because of social stigma and barriers to health care and other services… understand complexity of deployment… impact… psychological well-being… Children… also… challenges…”
Words Matter: The Importance Of Humanizing Criminal Justice Vocabulary
Social Justice Solutions (Southern Coalition for Social Justice)
“One of the problems with our criminal justice system is the pervasive belief that people serving time are no longer a part of our communities. Dehumanizing language like “convict,” “inmate,” “felon,” or “prisoner” only serve to reinforce the belief that such a division exists…”
Psychology:
Bullying is Not Just a Kid Problem
Cyberbullying Research Center (Justin W. Patchin)
“There is surprisingly little research available when it comes to the bullying experiences of university students… 25% of college students had been bullied by another student… 22% of students had been cyberbullied while in college…”
Calm Your Anxiety with Guided Visualization
Amy Maricle, LMHC, ATR-BC
“The following visualization is 12 minutes of progressive relaxation and release… How to Meditate through Art… Don’t make a plan for what you will draw… Allow colors to “choose you,”… Don’t over think what do draw next…”
Family-centered, child-inclusive divorce
Counseling Today (Kristin Little and Karen Bonnell)
“collaborative divorce… integrates the family’s mental health and the legal aspects of divorce… A divorce/co-parent coach… works to “uncouple” the spousal relationship and strengthen the parenting functions of the couple so they can become effective co-parents across two homes… child specialist gives children a “voice” during this difficult time…”
A Forgiveness Meditation
Sounds True (Andrew Weil)
“When Sounds True producer Nancy Smith arrived…“I was deeply struck by his air of peaceful happiness… Dr. Weil shares one of the most powerful practices you can do to improve your emotional well-being…”
Holocaust Survivors and Delayed-onset PTSD
Heal My PTSD by Michele Rosenthal
“Holocaust survivors came out of the concentration camps and back into a world that didn’t want to hear their stories… later in life traumas (i.e. the death of a spouse) can transform subclinical PTSD into delayed-onset PTSD…”
Is Online Treatment the Next Frontier for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The Trauma And Attachment Report (Robert T. Muller)
“iCBT (internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)… advantages of structured self-help materials with the expertise of a therapist who directs activities and encourages clients… strong emotional connection between client and therapist…”
Mental Health Mobile Applications – What Do You Want?
Bipolar Burble (Natasha Tracy)
“I’m working with Global Medical Education to research what people are looking for in terms of a mental health mobile application. We’ve identified… applications… that we think people might want… please… take this very short survey…”
Money and Kids. Lessons from our family.
Bari Tessler Linden, MA
“help your children develop a healthy relationship with money… work on your own relationship to money… Age 2-3… okay to want things, but… we can’t buy everything we want all at once… Live the money relationship you want your kids to have…”
My conversation with Irv Yalom and my letter of gratitude for his new book, Creatures of a Day
Inner Canvas (Lisa Mitchell, MFT, ATR)
” audio of our conversation… letter… gratitude for your newly published book, Creatures of a Day… You show us your mistakes… such a rare view… You make risk a good thing… If I practice risk enough, it will become something else entirely…”
No Shame for Extreme Night Owls
JFK blog (Andrew Green)
“To have DSPS means that a person is unable to sleep until two hours, or longer, after a more conventional bedtime… extremely disruptive to life. Someone with DSPS may not know they have it and think they have insomnia…”
Positive Picks! Progress in Upending Gender Stereotypes
Shaping Youth (Amy Jussel)
“awareness of prevalent and pigeonholed gender marketing stereotypes… companies making positive changes to upend stereotypes… ANY positive change needs wildly supported… effort for systemic change to stick…”
Quit Delaying Your Self-Approval
HealthyPlace (Fay Agathangelou)
“The most important way to stop delaying your self-approval is to give yourself permission to love and approve of yourself as you are right now. Your worth as a person is who you are inside, regardless of your circumstances, achievements or possessions…”
Nonprofit:
What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders
Beth’s Blog
“framework called “I-WE-IT”… improvisation was “Making or creating and doing the best you can with what you have.” … simple framework for doing improvisation: notice, accept, and build…3 Improv Exercises for your team…”
When putting your passion for change into practice fails: Lessons on starting a nonprofit
Idealist Careers (Celeste Hamilton Dennis)
“input and support from others is essential… Even with good friends and an interested advisory board I still felt largely alone and a bit paralyzed… create markers to track success that you hit or miss…. Give yourself the opportunity to walk away…”
Private Practice:
5 Things I Wish I Knew About Consulting Before I Started
Psych Central Professional by Joseph R. Sanok, MA, LLP, LPC, NCC
“With t-shirts, it was a huge mark-up… a hook into other products. In consulting, an e-book, start-up tool, or blog post can do the same thing… Hacking the Ladders… Read other people’s content. Understand what makes it work…”
7 Factors That Affect Private Practice Income
Private Practice Toolbox (Julie Hanks, LCSW)
“Client Retention Rates… ability to keep a client engaged in meaningful and helpful therapy is a learned skill that greatly impacts your private practice income… begin tracking the number of new referrals… prepare for business lulls in coming years…”
How Therapists are Killing the Field of Psychotherapy
Private Practice Experts Kelly & Miranda
“Many of the therapists who I talk to who are struggling with lateness are also struggling with boundary setting, business planning, keeping up with progress notes, billing… Develop a business plan… a clear schedule…”
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Thank you for including veterans issues on your list. Unfortunately, I can’t get the link for post on serving veterans from Behind the Curtains to work. Is there another link? I am very interested in reading this.
Thanks Christina for noticing that there was something wrong with that link.
I’ve just fixed it (somehow, http had appeared twice and caused a diversion). Sorry about that!