Mental Health Roundup
This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more!
This week’s wrap-up has 5 main themes:
- Advocacy
- Therapy/Relationships
- Healthcare
- Mental Health and Technology
- Career/Private Practice/NonProfit
- Self-Care
Advocacy
- Advocacy Education – Rachel West shares her presentations on legislative advocacy and digital advocacy… includes history of #BlackLivesMatter
- #CrisisNow: Transforming Services Is Within Our Reach – Stuck on Social Work – critical guidance document…”Our current approach to crisis care is patchwork, delivering minimal care for some people while others… fall through the cracks…”
- The Future of Social Work – Clint Robson – “The internet age allows us to practice micro, mezzo, and macro SW on a global level and on a more even playing field…”
- What Social Work Means to Me – Putting Human Rights Into Practice – Marianne Zeh – “Every person has the right to dignity, respect, autonomy, and freedom… social workers are constantly working to make themselves redundant…”
- Helping Students with Disabilities Transition into College and Work – APA Division 15 – “significant progress… However, benefits were not equally distributed across disability types or racial, ethnic, socioeconomic backgrounds…”
- Indigenous People and the Millennium Development Goals – Jodi Nelan – “[targets] do not approach quality of life in ways that are meaningful to indigenous people. In fact, the pursuit of these goals was sometimes perceived as harmful and reinforcing structural causes of poverty…”
- Legalize All Drugs? – NPR – “Drug use is not the problem, it is the Americans who become dependent on them that is our drug problem…”
- #MacroSW / #SPSM chat: Suicide Prevention Is A Social Justice Issue – archive of twitter chat available… “Access to culturally competent, affordable & effective mental health care can vary depending on resources… stigma surrounding suicide… makes it difficult to get help…”
- How the Gender Wage Gap Impacts Women, Men, Children and Families – Center for Financial Social Work free webinar on April 19 at 2PM EST… How career choices affect women’s lifetime earnings… differences in how women and men negotiate wages…”
- Tackling Shame and Stigma in Poverty Education in Social Work -Liz Beddoe and Emily Keddell – “The experience of poverty as shameful is often felt by people living in poverty due to the internalisation of stigmatising… classroom teaching can highlight the cognitive elements of poverty discourses, policies and media framing, while also evoking emotion…”
- White Fragility, Liberal Racism, Colorism, Fat Shaming, Intersectionality – 6 articles that Relando Thompkins has been reading this week.
Therapy/Relationships
- Findings from a Parenting Intervention for Foster and Kinship Families – InSocialWork podcast interview with Dr. Elizabeth Greeno, Mathew Uretsky, and Dr. Patricia Chamberlain on how to improve the quality of life for foster children and parents.
- Getting comfortable as a counselor with “not knowing” – Samantha McMorrow – “fear of not knowing what intervention to use is a normal part of becoming a counselor… now I see that there is no perfect approach…”
- Hot cocoa breathing sensory art activity – Kristina Marcelli – “help children learn deep breathing by allowing them to imagine smelling hot cocoa then blowing on it to cool it off…”
- How To Improve Decision-Making Despite Anxiety – Whitney Hawkins – “Make a list. Narrowing down your options can be extremely helpful… Explore the pros and cons. This is another type of list…”
- Politics and Religion: Psychotherapy’s Third Rail – Wynn Schwartz Ph.D – “When is inquiry into the roots and significance of Bob’s politics appropriate and to what end? And when is the absence of inquiry collusion?…”
- The science of mind over body – All in the Mind podcast interview with Jo Marchant- “a placebo can trigger measurable biological changes in the brain and the body that are very similar to those that are caused by drugs…”
- The Spectrum Explained – Stephen Borgman – 7 Autism Books For Your Child… Autism Is…?… explains autism… with plenty of pictures… for younger children…”
- There is more to autism than meets the eye – David J. Burns shares the first chapter of his humorous guide to taking advantage of the gift of autism: “Do Lemons Have Feathers?“
- Talking Politics With Your Child – Mercedes Samudio -“children model what they see and hear… 3 strategies… developing healthy political views…give them a quick overview of… government…Get your child’s opinion on big issues…”
Healthcare
- Cannabis: what do we know and what do we need to know? – Ian Hamilton – “young people are particularly vulnerable to developing cognitive impairment as a consequence of cannabis use… Greater detail about the specific type, frequency and quantity of cannabis use is… needed…”
- Cash-Only Pharmacy Offers Savings on Medicines – Sean Parnell – “self-pay patients may want to check prices at Medsavers Pharmacy or another cash-only pharmacy before filling their next prescription…”
- Social media use associated with depression among US young adults – Science Daily -“the more time young adults use social media, the more likely they are to be depressed, according to new research”
- Suicide during the perinatal period – Katrina Witt – “women who ended their own lives during the perinatal period were significantly more likely to have a recent onset of depression… less likely to be receiving active treatment… at their time of their death…”
Mental Health and Technology
- Dementia Care: Use Mind Mapping to Improve Quality of Life – [own] – Dr. Huba is able to fight back his cognitive decline… 7 Ways to better cope… 7 Ideas to improve your ability to care, connect and empower …. 7 Areas to advocate on…”
- Using #MacroSW in the Classroom -Laurel Hitchcock – “#MacroSW is a live weekly Twitter chat… engaging way to learn about macro social work practice… Learning activities…”
- Website that Highlights Accessible Venues Across the Globe – Vilissa Thompson – “AccessNow, a new website… allows users to indicate… using a thumbs up or thumbs down system, what businesses are accessible or not in their area…”
- We’re More Honest With Our Phones Than With Our Doctors – Jenna Wortham – “data collected via Clue… more detailed — and more accurate… offers a way to rethink — and potentially overhaul — how women’s health is studied…”
Career/Private Practice/NonProfit
- Book Notes: How to take notes while reading – Joe Sanok – “start with your goals for reading… Within the book itself, I use codes so it’s easy to remember what I was thinking… system for keeping track of ideas…”
- Do you REALLY know what psychotherapy notes are? – Katie Malinski – “contents of a conversation from a session… we can claim some special protection for, assuming we jump through some other hoops first…”
- Podcasting as a Private Practice Clinician – Selling the Couch podcast interview with Robert Cox – “recently launched… The Mindful Recovery Podcast… NOT to replace listeners’ therapy, but to help them “hold the space between therapy sessions.”
- The Secret To Sustainability For Non-profit Organizations – Ann Latham – “Value creates money. Money creates capacity. Capacity creates more value. This is a positive and fulfilling circle…”
- Smartphone Security Guide, Available at No Cost Until March 28th – Roy Huggins – “Prevent Apps From Popping Up Verbose Notifications When Your Phone is Locked… Don’t let strangers borrow your phone…”
- Technology Tools That I Use in My Business Part 1 and Part 11 – Juliet Austin – website and landing page tools… social media… organizational tools… audio and video tools for recording, editing and hosting audio and video files…”
- Which skills make you most employable? – Benjamin Todd – “correlated 35 key transferable skills with salaries, then rated them on how easy they are to learn, and combined them into 11 categories…”
Self-Care
- Exercise for Mental Health: Key 1, Make it Fun! – Christina Hibbert – “exercise is like medicine in the treatment of mental issues and disorders… You don’t have to suffer through exercise. You can, and should make it fun for you!…”
- Self-Care for the Highly Sensitive Person – Christine Reber – Highly sensitive persons (HSPs)… have a more finely-tuned nervous system than others… Consistent, quality self-care is critical… Grounding… Yoga and/or meditation practices…”
- What is Self-Compassion…? – SoundsTrue podcast with Kristin Neff – “self-compassion and self-criticism affect our minds and bodies… the quality of the compassion that we can give to others is often dependent upon giving ourselves the benefits of self-compassion first…”
- Writing for self knowledge – Dima Dupéré – “being honest with myself is a way of treating myself like a friend… get to know myself… by making lists… a Resume of Life Skills – Like a normal CV, except I list the things I have done that have made me strong…”
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