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Best in Mental Health (10/24/16 – 11/6/16)

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Best in Mental Health Nov 2016Mental Health Roundup

This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more!

This week’s wrap-up has 6 main themes:

  • Therapy/Relationships
  • Advocacy
  • Healthcare
  • Self-Care
  • Social Work, Tech & Education
  • Career/Private Practice

Therapy/Relationships

  • Attachment Trauma & Adoption – Therapy Chat podcast interview w/Amy Sugeno – “attachment trauma can affect children who were adopted, even if the adoption went as smoothly as it possibly could…”
  • Boy, You’ve Got to Carry that Weight – therapydoc – “As soon as you get the news from the patient, I’ve lost my job or I’ve had to change my insurance and you’re not on the plans, it is a very big problem. It shouldn’t be… The clincher is the confidence, having confidence in the patient’s resilience…”
  • Crossing the Line: How an Extramarital Affair Begins – Women In-Depth podcast interview w/Nicolle Zapien – “subjective perceptual activity… when we promise monogamy, we rarely break it down to what it means… people… not a good judge of the slippery slope of a flirtation… lackluster sex and connection…”
  • Eating Disorder Recovery – The Benefits of a Holistic Approach – JKP Blog/Dr. Nicola Davies – “Eating disorders often spring from… emotional pain… holistic approach… What is your image of a perfect body… role of food in your life?… trigger[s] eating disorder behaviours?… relationships…”
    • Creating a healthy relationship with food – Launching Your Daughter podcast interview w/Jennifer McGurk – “prevention… Not talking about food as good or bad… Begin to use Hunger Scale… app called “Rise Up”…”
  • Kindness , Thoughtlessness and Reflection – Ermintrude – “One person’s kindness can be another person’s thoughtlessness…”
  • The Minimalist Guide to Hookup Culture  and Relationships: 3 Secrets to Engaging Millennial Clients – own – “Dr Alexandra Solomon…Networker Symposium 2016… become informed and increase your awareness about the hookup culture… be prepared…”
    • My Boyfriend Won’t Commit – Sharon Martin – “Settling for less than the level of commitment that you want, sends the message that you’ll just take what you can get… Value yourself enough to ask for what you want…”
    • What makes a relationship healthy? Unhealthy? – Sam Killermann – “respect, equality, safety, and trust… can manifest in healthy ways or in unhealthy ways in any relationship, and are built with actions as much as words…”
  • Our Definition of “Good Mothering” is Bad For Mental Health – Julie Hanks – “five specific beliefs about mothering–essentialism, fulfillment, stimulation, challenging, and child-centered–are correlated with poorer mental health among mothers with young children…”
  • Self Psychology for Social Workers – SocialWork Podcast interview w/Tom Young – “role of empathy in self psychology, the function of mirroring, idealizing, and twinship experiences in the development of the self, how self psychology can be applied in individual, couple, and family contexts…”
  • Why Trauma Therapy Goes Bad – Ricky Greenwald – “[clients]… should understand how their trauma history is impacting their current situation, and how trauma healing can help them to get to their goals…”

Advocacy

  • #BlackLivesMatter: How A Hashtag Defined A Movement – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors & Alicia Garza… call to action… after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin… affirmation of Black folks’ contributions… resilience in the face of deadly oppression…”
    • Harvard Journal on Race and the Environment – Innovate@BCSocialWork/Takeuchi and Teixeira – open access… “Race and Environmental Equity…  Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge… Resources, Constraints, and Sense of Community…”
  • Bridging the gaps through cultural competency – Counseling Today/Bethany Bray – “cultural competence includes knowing – and appreciating – the context in which a student lives… a lifelong journey…”
    • Building Cultural Prosperity – SSIR – “people can explore new ways of doing things, together and individually… spaces often inspire individuals to rethink themselves and their own capabilities…”
    • Luke Cage: The Black Disabled Superhero We Need – Vilissa Thompson – “many facets of Black masculinity depicted that goes against typical media representation… Disabled people of color need comics with characters that look and live like them…”
  • Helping Your Client Technically Qualify for SSDI and SSI – SWH/Deanna Power – “verify your clients meets both the medical and technical eligibility requirements for disability benefits… employment taxes fund Social Security and Medicare… SSI is a need-based program… disabled persons of all ages and the elderly… “
  • Microfinance in India, Indonesia & the U.S.: Implications for Social Work – InSocialWork podcast interview w/Dr. Wonhyung Lee, Meera Bhat & Nurul Widyaningrum – “microfinance… provides low-income persons access to affordable and quality financial services to promote empowerment and the building of assets…”
  • Media Night 10.27.16 – Inequality for All – #MacroSW twitter chat hosted by Jimmy Young and Laurel Hitchcock- archive of chat about documentary Inequality for All (password to film provided in article)
  • Pioneering Reflections – Linda Grobman – “New Social Worker publisher/editor Linda May Grobman was inducted into the NASW Social Work Pioneers… identifies and recognizes individuals whose unique dedication, commitment and determination have improved social and human conditions…”
  • Social Workers for Hillary! – NASW – “National Association of Social Worker’s Political Action for Candidate Election Committee has endorsed Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton…”
  • 2017 World Social Day Poster Competition – IFSW – “Each year a new poster is designed to fit a specific theme that the profession has chosen… theme… is Promoting Community and Environmental Sustainability…”

Healthcare

  • Study uncovers brain changes in offending pedophiles – Research Blogging – “differences suggest that non-offending pedophiles might deploy a compensatory mechanism in the brain that provides greater self-control… interventions aimed at fostering basic inhibitory control abilities might help prevent child sex offenses…”
  • Sunshine matters a lot to mental health – Science Daily – “applies to the clinical population at large… With fewer sun time hours, clients will be particularly vulnerable to emotional distress…”
  • Young Adolescents as Likely to Die From Suicide as From Traffic Accidents – NYTimes – “pervasiveness of social networking means that entire schools can witness someone’s shame, instead of a gaggle of girls on a school bus. And with continual access to such networks, those pressures do not end when a child comes home in the afternoon…”

Self Care

  • 8 Things to Remember When You Fail – Amy Morin – “Even though things didn’t work out the way I wanted, I’m still OK… I’ve overcome tough things before. I can do it again…
  • Get Through a Bad Week – Trauma and Attachment Report – “Mike Evans… when times are difficult, people tend to forget the basics. Returning to those basics—proper sleep and diet, or going out with a friend—can help…”
  • How to Get Inspired to Create – Amy Johnson Maricle – “WE ARE ALL creative beings… Gilbert gives us permission to create… because it feels good… You have a right to create…”
  • Self-Care for When You Can’t Avoid Anxiety Triggers – HealthyPlace/Tanya J. Peterson – “With anxiety, we tend to overthink everything, over-analyzing our every move, thought, and feeling…”

Social Work, Tech and Education

  • #APM16 Day 3 -Incorporating Digital & Social Technologies into Social Work Education – Laurel Hitchcock, Melanie Sage, Jonathan B. Singer and Nancy J. Smyth – “panel discussion… the slides… Technology-Based Learning Task List…”
    • Storify of #APM16 Day 1 and Day 2 H/T to Sean Erreger – summary of tweets shared during conference.
  • Are you addicted to social media? Six questions – Science Daily – “Salience: Is your social media use deeply integrated into your daily life?… Euphoria: Do you depend on social media use for excitement throughout the day?…”
    • Is my kid addicted to tech or am I just old? – Alexandra Samuel – “Thoughtful adults may be able to keep their social media narcissism… But for young people… metrics reinforce the message that external validation is more important than personal integrity…”
  • Education and the Internet’s Role in Future Learning and Social Change – SJS/Daniel Podgorski – “needed is a path forward which both respects the intellectual progress which humanity has made thus far… [internet]… information to the lifelong learners that we will need to be, if… well-educated…”
  • Interview with Psych Central Founder Dr. John Grohol – “support groups very helpful through difficult time in life… lit lightbulb… index of newsgroups on a website [pre world wide web]… psychcentral was born… never worked as a psychologist… “
  • League of Legends and Cyberbullying – Cyberbullying Research Center – “League has over 100 million monthly players… compete against each other in matches… negative behavior… include: harassment… verbal abuse… directed at a particular player… Riot Games… developed… system… punish players for negative behavior…”
  • Machines for mental health – All in the Mind podcast interview w/Dr. Tom Insel – “For every 10 people who have a serious mental illness… only 40% are receiving services… technology… first time… objective measures of behaviour… putting [CBT or DBT] them on a phone… begin to use virtual reality…”
  • Professors Aren’t Therapists. But Do They Need to Be Therapeutic? – Psychotherapy Networker – “trigger warnings have expanded from chat rooms to classrooms… there’s little consensus on what content is worthy of trigger warnings…”

Career/Private Practice

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