Best in Mental Health (2/6/17 – 3/5/17)

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, Tech & Education
• Self-Care
• NonProfit Career & Private Practice

Advocacy

• Black History Month 2017: Donald Galloway, Disabled Social Worker Who Fought for Inclusion – Vilissa Thompson – “ability to use systems to fight against ableism and discrimination…”
• Clint Smith: “History Reconsidered” – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “when you wrote the declaration of independence, did you ever intend for Black people to have freedom over their body?… “
• The Future of Immigrants in the United States – Fordham GSS – “social work profession has had a long tradition of working with immigrants… advocate in any peaceful way we can against what we see as very serious threats to our profession… our country…”
• Hugs & Kisses – JimmySW – “program evaluation for a child sexual abuse prevention play… play uses child appropriate language to teach children… concepts of good touch, bad touch, and secret touch…”
• Join Social Work Month Twitterstorm on March 8! – NASW – “show your support for the profession… resources that will help… engage in making positive changes to our society…”
• Promoting Macro Social Work Through Social Media/Twitter Chats – InSocialWork podcast w/Karen Zgoda, Rachel L. West & Patricia Shelly – “what Twitter chats are, why they matter, and why social workers are producing and participating in them…”
• Stop Raising Awareness Already – Ann Christiano & Annie Neimand – “social change activists need to use behavioral science to craft campaigns that use messaging and concrete calls to action that get people to change how they feel, think, or act…”
• Why Democracy Failed – William Hambleton Bishop – “Democracy needs an educated and informed population to function adequately… solutions… would come from a diversity of perspectives… no safe-guards in place to control for mis-information…”
• You Should Run – Rachel L. West – “more social workers need to run for elected office… resources to help you get started… Emily’s List… “

Therapy and Relationships

• 3 Art Therapy Activities to Boost Resilience –  Lisa Mitchell- “activities that link a negative experience with a beneficial experience boost resilience and make it easier to recover from difficulties…”
• 3 Ways to Reflect after a Client Relationship Ends – Nicole Clark – “How did I feel about the overall project?… Did this project provide opportunities for me to learn new skills?…”
• Children’s Emotional Buckets – Beck Institute/Torrey A. Creed- “child’s emotional bucket is filled by positive interactions with another person… 5:1 positive to negative ratio ensures that we keep enough water in the bucket to safely scoop out water when it is needed…”
• Couples and Understanding: Cultivating Presence in Therapy – Ili Walter – “negative beliefs can become engrained over time, as partners… see their loved one’s behavior and habits from their own frame of reference…“
  • Treating Marital Infidelity With Intensive Trauma-Focused Therapy – Trauma Institute – “Intensive trauma-focused therapy does not solve every post-infidelity marriage problem… overcome some of the primary obstacles to relationship repair…”
• Death and Grief in the Digital Age – SocialWork podcast interview w/Carla Sofka – “role of social media in how, why, where and when, who we grieve… social media posts as death notifications… digital advance directives…”
• Ditch The Friend Drama Once And For All! – Julie Hanks – “Bypass the drama by being assertive and asking directly for what you’d like… press the pause button if necessary… deal with the issue when… not… emotionally flooded…”
• Getting EBP Right In Schools – Michael Kelly – “One of the better-known evidence-based practice (EBP) programs to address anxiety in schools is the FRIENDS Program…”
• Gold and Mercury – Martha Crawford – “Alice Miller wrote… about the dilemma of being a psychoanalyst… Psychotherapists… live in constant danger of giving out of their core… to care for others…”
• Got Countertransference? A Journal Exercise to Better Understand – [own] – “Dima Dupéré… Denying or avoiding the emotions triggered by your clients is likely to interfere with the therapeutic process…”
• Helping children and families address and prevent sibling abuse – Counseling Today/Diane M. Stutey – “first phase of this model… assess for sibling abuse if there are red flags similar to those we might observe with child abuse…”
• My 4 Favorite Assessment Questions – Maelisa Hall- “Describe a typical day for you… often leads in to getting more details on the way in which… identified problem impacts… every day life…”
• Overcoming Mom Shame: #StopMomShaming Solutions – Christina Hibbert – “Nearly 80% percent of the women surveyed report being shamed… in reality, it’s CRUCIAL we each do this parenting thing our own way…”
• Paradox of Choice: How to Choose a Partner – Esther Perel by Lindsay – “ask yourself: am I curious?… How do I feel in the presence of this person? Do I feel understood?…”
  • Advice for Dating and Keeping a Healthy Love Relationship  –  Women in Depth interview w/Dr. Sharon Cohen – “brain science behind love, dating, and relationships…”
• Peer pressure problems? Understand why they’re my friends – Teenage Whisperer – “What does a good relationship and friendship look like? What does a bad one look like? What is familiar to you?…”
• Raise Your Skills, Not Your Hands – Family Couch interview w/Asadah Kirkland – “cultural epidemic of black parents beating their children… alternative examples for punishment…”
• Stages of Change (Prochaska & DiClemente), translated to Spanish – Social Work Tech – “stages that one can expect to go through when modifying behavior… Empowerment comes from helping the client to reflect on what did not work in the Maintenence stage…and… correct that when taking Action”
• The University Years: Claire Eastham discusses living with social anxiety –  JKP – how going to university affected her mental health… excerpt… University was one of the biggest culture shocks…”

Healthcare

• The 500 Cities Project: New Data for Better Health – Oktawia Wojcik – “collaboration between the CDC, the CDC Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides analysis of 27 chronic disease measures, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use…”
• Correlation and Causation – a simple guide – Ludwig Ruf – “observing correlations between variables can be relatively straightforward, but establishing that one thing causes another is difficult…”
• Early life deprivation, neurodevelopment, mental health and resilience: ERA study – Andre Tomlin – “extended early deprivation was associated with long-term deleterious effects on wellbeing that seem insusceptible to years of nurturance and support in adoptive families…”
• How artificial intelligence will save lives: Prediction of future suicide risk – “machine learning can predict with 80-90 percent accuracy whether someone will attempt suicide as far off as two years into the future…”
• Telemedicine: The Current Digital Health Trend and What It Means For Us – SJS – “fastest growing demographic for telemedicine is patients aged 60 or over… help lower costs and provide a better quality of care…”
• When Clients Access Mental Health Records – GoodTherapy.org/Zawn Villines – ” When records… consistent with what happened in treatment sessions… when providers openly discussed diagnoses… positive feelings about… providers and…records…”

Social Work, Tech & Education

• Three Ways Universities Can Dramatically Advance Social Enterprise – Ben Mangan, Claire Markham, & Kristiana Raube – “Reimagine the role of the university as a changemaker…”
• Branching out: careers for PhDs outside academia – Author Services/Alice James – “think outside the box… ask… ‘what change do you want to see in the world?’… find a career that inspires you…”
• Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies – created an online database that lets you slice and dice data on the U.S. nonprofit economy
• Manage Self-Harm Urges with the Calm Harm App – HealthyPlace/Becky Oberg – “has four activity types: comfort, distract, express, and release… If you’re unsure of which one you need to use, it has “Random” and “Breathe” buttons…”
• The Most Dangerous Apps of 2017 – Kyle Roberts – “Live streaming apps with video often allow or encourage users to self objectify… linked to pornography exposure and use… playground for predators…”
• Net Neutrality and The Under-Served? – Stuck on Social Work – “Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website…”
• New Teen Sexting Data – Justin W. Patchin – “24% of the seventeen year-olds surveyed told us that they have had sexual intercourse. So more students are having sex than are engaging in sexting [12%]…”
• SAGE Research Methods Cases: Publication Opportunity – “write a short (2,000-5,000 words) original case study about experiences in doing their research… aims to inspire… [students and early career academics]…”
• Savvy Social Worker’s Guide to Social Media and Internet – SWH/Julie Fanning – “Get educated about on-line rules and regulations… Don’t talk about clients online… have a social media policy in place…”
• Visualizing Data: Infographic Assignments across Social Work Curriculum – Laurel Hitchcock, Nathalie Jones & Melanie Sage – ” slides from… #BPDNOLA17 presentation… opportunity to discover and evaluate information related to important social problems and social work practice in new… ways…”

Self Care

• 7 Strategies for Using Mindfulness to Reduce Anxiety – Sharon Martin – “Change the scenery… Get your creative juices flowing…”
• 11 Ways to Make Your Life Infinitely Better – Mindfulness Muse/Evelyn Kail – “watch what you put on your plate… reduce alchohol intake… detoxify… Physical exercise helps with detoxification because our bodies expel toxins with sweat…”
• Americans Just Broke a New Record for Stress and Anxiety! – Melanie Greenberg – “people are stressed by the fast pace of change and the uncertainty of the political climate… Limit time watching or listening to the news… Focus on the parts of your life in which you have control…”
• Celebrating March, Social Work Month – New Social Worker/Erlene Grise-Owens – “understand that self-care is an essential professional obligation, not an extra… integrate self-care and organizational wellness into… curricula…”
• Mindfulness and review of Muse headband – Launching Your Daughter podcast – “Studies have shown that mindfulness and meditation can reduce anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and increase gray matter in our brains…”
• A Simple Tip for A Good Night’s Sleep: Use An Alarm Clock – Beth Kanter – “One surefire way to ruin your sleep is to use your mobile phone as your bedtime routine…”
• Yoga for Depression & Anxiety – Therapy Chat podcast interview w/Amy Weintraub – “primary practices… for depression & anxiety… example of the use of “Stair, Step, Breath”.

NonProfit Career and Private Practice

• Building a Private Practice Around Your Passion – Selling the Couch interview w/Robbin Rockett – “A greater “WHY” makes your practice more sustainable and gives a different perspective than if you just “have a job.”…”
  • Top 5 Numbers to Know in Private Practice – Perfected Practice – “amount of time and money you are investing on marketing… How much money are you losing in your practice?…”
  • 7 Essentials: How to Set Your Session Rates – Practice of the Practice – “first… look a number of demographics in your area and your ideal client… next… set rates based on the lifestyle you want to live…”
  • Defining Your Marketing Message For Your Counseling Practice – Get Down to Business – “the reason I get the clients I work best with is because I speak to them… what they may be going through…”
  • Private Practice Challenge Week 2: Niche – Kelly + Miranda – “think about your favorite clients… what if I was able to see clients like this everyday?… what issues/who I am really awesome at working with?…”
  • SEO Playbook for Private Practice Websites Using WordPress – Abundance Practice-Building – “One of the most popular SEO plugins… is… Yoast… three most important aspects of any website’s SEO are conveniently presented in one spot under the Snippet Preview…”
• Deciding to get your doctoral degree – Counseling Today/Makeba Boykins – “Most schools accept six to 10 students for Ph.D. programs… Being accepted to a school that was interested in my research topic and supportive of my inclination toward social justice was the first hurdle…”
• New Internet Security Bug, “Cloudbleed.” Urgency: Low-Moderate. – Roy Huggins – “bug is in the servers of a company called Cloudflare, which provides Internet-related services to lots of other websites (that’s why it could impact you even if you aren’t a Cloudflare customer.)…”
• Template Toolbox: How to Ask a Friend for a Job Referral – Alexis Margolin – “three email templates that will help you navigate some potentially gray areas…”
• A Values-Based Approach to Your Digital Brand – Josie Ahlquist – “Aligning your values into your digital brand will humanize your approach to tech tools, the relationships built around them and elevate your presence as a leader in the digital space…”
• Which email marketing provider should I use? – Ask Juliet & Clinton – “MailChimp, AWeber, there’s Constant Contact… common for beginners and at least intermediate. We recommend AWeber…”

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