Best in Mental Health (12/5/16 – 12/18/16)

Mental 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 (in a different order):

1. Therapy/Relationships
2. Self-Care
3. Advocacy
4. NonProfit Career/Private Practice
5. Social Work, Tech & Education
6. Healthcare

Which order would you most prefer? (or no preference?) Please give your feedback in comment area 🙂

Therapy/Relationships

• Angels and Shepherds: See the Child, See the Potential – Teenage Whisperer – “when we work with our troubled teens and they are being SO difficult… SO self-destructive… remember that they are still really children… malleable…”
• Becoming Eclectic Part 1: Assessment – Marie Hartwell-Walker – “goal… To understand each person in their uniqueness… empower… to make manageable changes… relieve distress… productive and happy life… Part 2: Interventions
• Do Feelings Look the Same in Every Human Face? – Greater Good – “culture could play a stronger role than previously thought in how emotions are expressed and recognized… different cultures can have rules about when and where it’s appropriate to express a particular emotion…”
• Emotional CPR – All in the Mind interview w/Dr Daniel Fisher – “recovery through empowerment… the C in Emotional CPR is for connecting, through your tone, through your gestures, through your facial expression, through your eye contact… all need to occur at the very beginning of a conversation…”
• Framing what happens in your sessions for maximum impact – Steve Andreas – “roughly half of all clients don’t return for a second session… to maximize your impact is to be very specific about what you do in therapy…”
• Holiday blues are real, and counselors can help – Bethany Bray – “Therapeutic issues that a client and counselor have been working on throughout the year are often magnified… plan ahead and talk about the pressures of the season…”
• I am cliterate! Are you? – Esther Perel – “understanding female sexuality, privileging female sexuality, respecting female sexuality… video… by Huffington Post’s Cliterate re-educator…”
• How to Start Tricky Conversations with Child Sufferers of Abuse – Daisy Law – “carefully choose our words… “What would you do?” … The word ‘would’ is one of options and choice like ‘could’ but with the added sense of autonomy… child-led discussion…”
• Suicidal Ideation: 4 Documentation Tips – Maelisa Hall – “What to Write When a Client Tells You They Are Contemplating Suicide… Identify Risk and Protective Factors… Write a Safety Plan, Not a Contract…”
• Trigger Points — finally, a parenting book for moms and dads who survived child abuse – SJS/Christina Cissy White – “essays from more than 20 men and women survivor parents with children of all ages, as well as resources, journal prompts and ways to join a survivor parent community…”
• Understanding Birth Trauma – Lourdes Viado interview w/Krysta Dancy – “definition of trauma and birth trauma… Predictors of birth trauma symptoms… physical effects of childbirth and its relation to birth trauma…”
• Untangled Guiding Teen Girls through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood – Launching Your Daughter interview w/Lisa Damour PhD – “your daughter’s erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural… Requirements and concerns have changed… not in alignment with normal development…”
• What is Family of Origin Work? – Lisa Brookes Kift – “getting unstuck emotionally and/or in your relationships in the present, by healing the family or other wounds of the past…”

Self-Care

• Five Tips on Self-Reflection for Personal Growth – HealthyPlace/ Silke Morin – “Be honest with yourself… Notice behavior patterns… Be able to articulate your core values… Be forgiving. Change is hard and old habits are hard to break… Keep track…”
• Create Your Recipes, Remedies, Rituals, and Resources for Self Care – Nicole Clark – “Get a whiteboard or some surface that’s big enough for your group to write on… create a recipe around dealing with toxic people. What steps (or ingredients) can you take to make sure you’re talking care of yourself?…”
• Doing Hard Things – Therapy Chat/Laura Reagan – “I took my 45 year old body… and had my first horseback riding lesson… You go through the hard parts because you know something better is on the other side…”
• Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition, Exercise, Energy & Happiness – Christina Hibbert – “Eating patterns are clearly linked with mental health, especially depression… Choosing to go for a walk or swim when hard days or bad moods hit helps in two ways…”
• Holiday Gift For You: heARTmaking prompts from the Creative Grief Studio – Kara Chipoletti Jones
• Surviving & Thriving Over the Holidays: #MacroSW 12/8 – Karen Zgoda/MacroSW twitter chat archive – “holiday self-care… joy to the holiday season…”

Advocacy

• Donald Trump and the F-Word: The Growing Elephant in the Room – Peter Kaufman – “Fascism, at its core… perpetuates itself celebrating a grotesque hypermasculinity. It allows disenfranchised people to feel a sense of power and to have their rage sanctified…”
  • Dr. Fate and Post-Election Anxiety – Juan Maldonado – “last 8-10 years…  progress in our nation… much more tolerance for one another… Gays earned the right to marry… public discourse about transgender rights, women’s rights… illusion… put… battle helmet and fight…”
  • Living in Trump’s America: Thoughts From a Black Disabled Woman – Vilissa Thompson – “those who are multi-marginalized like myself live in every day, and such realities will only get harsher as officials are appointed who actively support every type of bigotry and offense there is…”
  • Proportional Response – Social Work Tech – “opportunity for us all to use our #MacroSW skills to organize and fight… Compassion is what we all need from each other right now…”
• Finding a path out of homelessness – SAMHSA – “SOAR approach has been used to assist over 50,000 people who were experiencing or at risk of homelessness with applications for Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefit programs…”
• Submit Your Entry for Social Work Month Project 2017! – New Social Worker – “Deadline: January 16, 2017…  submit a creative work that presents a positive view of social work on the micro, mezzo, and/or macro level…”
• Want to spark a social movement? 4 Lessons from However Long the Night – Aimee Molloy –  “tells the story of Molly Melching’s human rights work in Senegal… you can’t force change…”
• Who Shot Ya?: A Novel Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program – inSocialWork interview w/Dr. Richardson & Dr. St. Vil – “use of a longitudinal, ethnographic study of young Black men… specific recommendations that have implications for programs as well as policy…”

NonProfit Career/Private Practice

• 5 Steps to Creating an Awesome 2017 Business Plan – Private Practice Experts Kelly & Miranda – “Step 1: Your Mission… Why are you in private practice?… Your business serves a certain kind of person… Who are they? AND what is their biggest problem?…”
• Apps You Can Use To Create Highly Private Spaces Online for Clients – Roy Huggins – “Signal is an open-source texting app for pretty much all smartphones… very easy to use… However, its highly private nature makes it harder to document the messages you exchange using it…”
• Are You Breaking Up with Me? – Practice of the Practice/Melissa DaSilva – “terminations don’t always look the way we were taught in school… Prepare For The End Right From The Start… Have Emergency Contact Information…”
• Evergreen Editorial Calendar – “events that happen every year in the same months, so that you can keep using this version in perpetuity… resources to make this your own from year to year…”
• The Freedom, Insecurity, and Future of Independent Work – SSIR – “all of America’s net new employment has come from people working in “alternative work arrangements”… stitch together… stability and safety nets…”
• New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work – Beth Kanter – “free online guide…organized by four key questions… What data to collect? How to collect data? Making meaning…”
• Psychotherapists In Transition –  Christopher Quarto interview w/Tamara Suttle – “the issues with which women in transition contend and how they can successfully deal with those transitions… identifying rules and patterns that were developed during childhood…”
• Signs You’re Building The Wrong Practice (and What to Do About It) – Allison Puryear – “You feel like you can’t say no. To potential clients. To ongoing clients. To insurance companies… pause… get really clear about what you want your practice to do for YOU…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• Care Coordination and The Untapped Potential of Wearable Technology?  – Stuck on Social Work – “first establish… a good baseline… basic A|B|A research design… testing the hypothesis that after an intervention one can regain baseline functioning…”
• Mixed Relationship Between Social Media and Depression – Good Therapy/Zawn Villines – “People who negatively compared themselves to other social media users were highly vulnerable to depression… social media may also improve mental health…”
• Social Work Educator’s Guide for #SWVirtualPal – Laurel Hitchcock – “purpose… to create professional connections between social work students, practitioners, and academics across the planet…”
• Teaching and Supervising CBT – Sarah Licata – “Training is defined as the effective transfer of knowledge about and practice of the key skills of CBT. It represents both knowing that and knowing how…”
• Tricks to help you get the result you want from your study! – Sam Marks – “next time you’re reading a journal article about a clinical trial… particularly if… funded by a pharmaceutical company… be sceptical… critical…”

Healthcare

• Barriers to evidence-based practice for app-based psychological interventions – Mental Elf/Simon Leigh – “need for consensus and guidance for app developers, as to which patient-reported outcome measures should be used when developing mental health apps…”
• Google Maps tells you if locations are wheelchair accessible – “Local Guides (that is, users who answer questions about places they visit) have provided enough answers about access that Google will now display it as an amenity on a location page…”
• Obama signs Cures Act – Julie Miller – “authorizes $1 billion over two years to supplement existing grant programs for addiction treatment and prevention… also… the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act…”
• The Push for Suicide Prevention – NIMH/Joshua Gordon – “suicide rate in the U.S. has been gradually rising over the past 15 years… nearly half of suicide victims used a firearm… lives could be saved by reducing access…”
• Violence and women’s mental health: new review summarises the evidence – Mental Elf/Nicky Lambert – “Violence against women is linked to higher levels of mental distress and mental health workers should support… women… by considering gender and trauma-informed ways of working…”

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