Best in Mental Health (3/6/17 – 3/26/17)

Mental Health Roundup

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

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

• Advocacy
• Therapy and Relationships
• Healthcare
• Social Work, Technology & Education
• Self-Care
• NonProfit Career & Private Practice

Advocacy

• World Social Work Day 2017 — Working on the ‘outside’ – Ermintrude – “Social work training instills us with a huge number of transferable skills. We can negotiate our ways through difficult conversations … add value to the people whose lives we affect and change…”
  • 25 Social Workers Share Why They Love Social Work! – [own] – “Quotes… SocialWork.Career asked many social workers what they love most about their work… best job with social justice values underlying all work…”
  • The Good Fight: Dispelling Public and Media Misperceptions of Social Workers – Sherry Saturno/New Social Worker – “So why do so many people think of us exclusively as child welfare workers…”
  • History shows importance of social work – Maren Dale/SocialWorkBlog – “Jane Addams… “The Mother of Social Work,”… Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare… more recent initiatives social workers… “
  • Social Work Month 2017: For What Do You Stand Up?  – Pat Shelly – “archive of #MacroSW twitter chat on… Who or what do you stand up for?… How does Social Work Month help you and other social workers?…”
  • There’s No One Way To Be a Social Worker – Nicole Clark – “What looks like burnout may be a sign that you’re ready for something bigger. Never stay where you are. Get comfortable with exploring. Take a chance and apply for leadership positions…”
• Collective Action for Childhood Mental Health – Michele Patak-Pietrafesa/School Social Work Net – “When students experience microaggressions… it causes anger… damages self-efficacy…”
• Community Law Office: Integration of Social Work and Criminal Defense – InSocialWork podcast interview w/Sarah Buchanan, Wright Kaminer & Dr. Roger Nooe- “social workers work… w/public defense attorneys… better legal outcomes by addressing [clients’]… psychosocial needs…”
• Disabled Writer, Activist, & Redefining the Rules – Vilissa Thompson – “Kerima Cevik… pushing for… end to racism and racial disparities in autism services… catastrophic encounters between disabled people of color and law enforcement…”
• Feminine Rage & Restorative Justice – social working /undercover – “To be seen is to be healed. It doesn’t matter how I am interpreted. I am SEEN. I am HEARD… Restorative justice is feminist justice…”
• Gender of Money – What it Is, How it Hurts, Why it Matters – Center for Financial Social Work/SJS – “free webinar… How much gender pay inequity costs women over… lifetime… Ten ways to… improve your… and your clients’ financial wellbeing…”
• Let’s Talk About Bathrooms – Sam Killermann – “concern is that “sexual predators”… will see an equitable bathroom policy as an opening to attack women and girls… Evolving policies about public restrooms IS a longstanding tradition…”
• Managing for Social Impact – [Top-Ranked Book in Business Ethics] – Innovate@BCSocialWork – “Dearing & Cronin… The four pillars move across stakeholders, goal setting, strategy, and time horizon… Open Circles, Focused Purpose Sharing, Mutuality of Successes, and Persistent Change Perspective…”
• “Marriage premium for children” depends on family resources – “wide class gap in non-marital childbearing, which has the potential to damage social mobility…”

Therapy and Relationships

• ABC Model to Build Resilience Against Cyberbullying – Sameer Hinduja – “ABC stands for Adversity, Beliefs, and Consequences… Dealing with the adversity in positive… ways or negative, unhealthy ways hinges on the beliefs… and the inner dialogue that transpires…”
• Benefits of Dance Movement Therapy for Eating Disorders – HealthyPlace – “therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual… body, mind and spirit are interconnected…”
• Developer of the Brainspotting Method with David Grand – Juliet Austin – “Brainspotting is an attunement model… unconscious eye positioning reveals deeper brain patterns… ultimate way to understand what’s going on in a body is to understand the brain…”
• Do you really SEE your clients? Or are you just LOOKing? – Lisa Mitchell – “Looking is for survival and coping… quick glance to assess… an activity to practice SEEing…”
• Early Childhood Questions to Promote Bonding –  William Hambleton Bishop – “When our partners see the depth of our true selves and know the intricacies of our narratives pertaining to our childhood, they are better available to be emotionally helpful…”
• Exploring A New Approach to Anti-Bullying with James Gavsie – Deona Hooper/Social Work Helper – “Renegades Guide to Bullying… reform bullies completely by helping them understand what kind of negative effect they unintentionally have on people… best way to absolutely destroy a bully is to make them your friend…”
• Fear in the Driver’s Seat with Lourdes Viado, Ph.D, MFT – “fear is a primary motivator in our lives… common types of fear: fear of failure…  fear of feeling, fear of change… how to work with it…”
• Fight Smarter: Avoid the Most Common Argument Patterns – Lindsay – “we organize our reality around… confirmation biases… When I do something wrong (like arriving late) it’s typically circumstantial. But if you fail me, I attribute it to your character…”
• How Cognitive Therapists Can Contribute to Patient Well-Being – Francine Broder – “Many… health problems require… self-management approach… helplessness core belief was triggered when… physician asked her to make lifestyle changes she didn’t think she was capable of…”
• How Reading Out Loud Helps Develop Comprehension and Confidence – Stephen Borgman – “allows them to hear the spoken English language… model appropriate behaviors and relationships…”
• How Women Can Overcome People-pleasing and Perfectionism – Sharon Martin – “People-pleasing and perfectionism are efforts to prove your worth… Your achievements don’t define you…”
• Is Meditation Necessary for Mindful Eating? – Rebecca Johnson – “While meditation is highly valuable for some, not everyone is ready to “go there,”… Noticing one’s physical state, hunger or fullness level, and other non-hunger triggers that may be present…”
• Managing Chronic Pain in Families – Launching Your Daughter podcast w/Daniela Paolone – “mindfulness and emotional freedom techniques… how these techniques can help manage symptoms…”
• Nonbinary Gender – GoodTherapy.org – “recognizing a person’s pronouns and identity, and accepting gender as a spectrum rather than a binary, is the best way to show them support…”
• Trauma Sensitive Yoga – Therapy Chat podcast interview w/David Emerson – “developed…TSY groups for rape crisis centers, domestic violence programs… neuroscience behind the work he does…”
• Where Storytelling Meets Activism – Practice of Being Seen podcast interview w/Eva Tenuto – “process invites people to explore and tell versions of vulnerable stories… support from facilitators… captivating story… speak to the audience’s collective heart…”
• Yalom… hold fast to self-care and the therapeutic alliance – Laurie Meyers – “I never miss a [therapy group for psychotherapists] meeting if I can avoid it… major source of self-care. That and getting therapy…”

Healthcare

• An Experimental Therapeutic Approach to Psychosocial Interventions – NIMH – “translating the growing understanding of the factors that cause and sustain mental illnesses into new or improved approaches to prevention and treatment…”
• HIPAA Breach Disclosure Requirements – Cindy Winn – “In the event of a HIPAA breach, the disclosure letter to the person(s) affected must include… Brief description of what happened and when it happened…”
• Statistical significance vs. clinical significance – Cindy Denisse Leyva De Los Rios – “clinical significance is the practical importance of the treatment effect, whether it has a real, palpable, noticeable effect on daily life…”
• Why virtual reality could be a mental health gamechanger – Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman – “VR’s extraordinary ability to create powerful simulations of the scenarios in which psychological difficulties occur… allow clinicians to run powerful situational tests… “
• Work can make you mentally ill, but we still have a lot to learn about the links between employment and mental health – “Good evidence for a relationship between poorer employee mental health and high job demand, low job control and low social support…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• Apple AirPods and my Social Workin Day – Ignacio – “AirPods are Simple to Use… I like how clearly my connection sounds when talking to people…”
• Chapter 13 Technology Considerations in Running a Private Practice –  Ellen Belluomini – “ethics code… of the American Counseling Association (ACA, 2014)… education for all psychotherapists…Understanding digital behaviors can offer insight into… client or the family system… “
• Growing up digitally – All in the Mind – “there is no divide between what goes on in life and… social media… young people… are heading online for help as their first port of call… ReachOut is a digital-only service…”
• Having Trouble Writing with Cognitive Impairment (#Dementia)? Give This a Try – George Huba – “Grammarly… is a grammar and spelling checker… To use Grammarly you must be logged into the Internet…”
• How to create short link stickers for your best content – Alexandra Samuel – “short link stickers… give me an immediate way of following up on a conversation… Create… link for each URLs you frequently share…”
• Installing a SSL Certificate on my Bluehost website – Cathy Hanville – “have a secure site so that people typing in your URL won’t see messages saying your site is not secure…”
• Texting Late at Night? How to Quash Your Teenager’s After Hours Technology – Jane Parent/Your Teen Magazine – “parental controls were our allies. For $4.99 per month per account, we set time controls for each kid…”

Self-Care

• Art Journal Flip Through: March 2017 – Amy Johnson Maricle – “an art journal flip through with some of my latest work… find some bits of inspiration for your own art journal pages…”
• Dream Time – Martha Crawford – “I am living in the reality that life is an inherently insecure proposition… The illusions protect us from the terror… Pay attention. Spend your time wisely. This is life. This is time. This is life. You are alive this minute…”
• From Self-Sacrifice to Self-Care – The Family Couch interview w/Suzi Lula – “how self care is misunderstood… impact that it can have on your relationships, parenting your children… take control of your life…”
• Self Care: 4 Signs It’s Time to Take Care of Yourself – Ili Walter – “view… self-care as a way of life… work can be very enjoyable 90% of the time, even though we’re dealing with alot of suffering, if we have what we need…”
• What Your Mother Probably Did Not Tell You – Cathy Hanville, LCSW – “Perimenopause is that period leading up to menopause where all sorts of things may happen, or not…”

NonProfit Career and Private Practice

• 3 Tips for Discovering Your Niche – Perfected Practice – “Work in another private practice… accept a wide range of clients… Which clients do you particularly enjoy working with?… Rule out what you don’t want…”
• Five Things I’ve Learned In My First Month Of Private Practice – Julia Smith/Private Practice Consultants – “Find office space… Networking is a must…”
• A guided meditation for nonprofit professionals – “Find a comfortable position… Breathe in…and out…your 1700 unread emails are gone…”
• I Got Sued (For Something You’ve Done!) – Allison Puryear – “whenever you download a photo from a stock photo site, screenshot yourself doing it…  the onus is on us to prove that we came by the photos legally…”
• Making Live Presentations and Workshops Part of Your Revenue Model – Selling the Couch interview w/Katayune (Kat) Kaeni – “Be excited and passionate about your topic… Focus on your WHY… How to set your fees for presentations…”
• Private Practice Success Stories: Live Panel Replay -Kelly & Miranda – you can build a happy practice that perfectly fits who you are…”
• Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload – Beth Kanter – “Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings…”

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