Mental Health Roundup 6/26/17 – 7/16/17
This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in better understanding self-disclosure, the do’s and don’ts with respect to accepting gifts from clients, how to employ CBT with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder, use technology to aid your teaching (and participation in a conference) and be more productive.
This wrap-up’s main themes are:
- Therapy and Relationships
- Advocacy
- Healthcare
- Social Work, Technology & Education
- Self Care/Inspiration
- NonProfit Career & Private Practice
Therapy and Relationships
- 3 Communication Stances – Julie Hanks – “lantern is the goal for all communication. A lantern values her own feelings and thoughts but is also mindful of and sensitive toward those of others…”
- Art and Science of Therapy as Craft, Part 2: Crafting Questions – Family Therapy interview w/AnnaLynn Schooley – ” Open questions are storytelling questions, because they prompt a more extensive response from the client…”
- The Art of Fear – therapydoc – “Fear… is on our team, working for the good… Just listen, give Fear all of your attention, bow to her. Fear deserves respect. And pay no mind to all of that negativity in your head… “
- Attachment, Meditation, Yoga & Compassion In Trauma Therapy – TherapyChat podcast interview w/Deirdre Fay – “easy to apply take home skills that people could use when they weren’t in therapy…”
- Creation of emotions – All in the Mind podcast interview w/Lisa Feldman Barrett – “capacity to… take bits and pieces of past experience and create a new concept, a new emotion…be the architects of our emotional life… “
- Dating In A Wheelchair, & Representation – Vilissa Thompson – “Buzzfeed… recently produced… video… “Thoughts You Have While Dating In A Wheelchair” that features vlogger Lolo…”
- Exploring Therapist Self-Disclosure – Jamie Kreiter/Social Justice Solutions – “revelation of personal information about the therapist during session… In psychoanalytic theory, non-disclosure is the therapist’s standard position…”
- The Feeling of Not Enough – Hilary Jacobs Hendel – “We are not born feeling inadequate. Life experiences and emotions create that… One way to transform old beliefs is to work with them as separate child parts…”
- Forgive For Good – Family Couch interview w/Fred Luskin – “what forgiveness does for us and… what impact un-forgiveness has on the body… struggle to forgive comes from a fear that forgiveness… acceptance of the offending behavior…”
- Gifts From Clients: The Good, the Bad, and the Ethically Ugly – Allan Barsky/New Social Worker – “consider… impact of gift-giving on the client. If… authentic expression of the client’s gratitude… principle of self-determination suggests that social workers should honor the client’s wishes…”
- Hidden Relationship Killer – Neil Brown – “In a Negative Cycle, Person A’s reactions to a situation end up triggering Person B’s, and Person B’s reactions end up triggering Person A’s… to stop… cycle… empathize first before reacting…”
- Personal Erotic Myth – Women in Depth interview w/Galen Fous – “How the sexual unconscious is calling for our attention… difficulty in experiencing sexual authenticity… Sexual honesty… dishonesty…”
- Progressive Counting (PC) 10th Anniversary – Trauma Institute – “spinoff of CM, PC… better tolerated by clients…who may have difficulty working through trauma memories due to limited tolerance of negative affect…”
- The Relativity of Oppression – William Hambleton Bishop – “common constructs concerning oppression that can lead to an individual oppressing themselves: being a stay-at-home parent… rules and laws… all religion… set schedules…”
- What Minorities Can Expect from a Culturally Competent Therapist – Janelle Johnson/Good Therapy – “Gathering pertinent information… helps to foster a trusting alliance…How do you identify in the world?… How do you see death and dying?…”
- Working with Borderline Personality Disorder – Amy Cunningham/Beck Institute – “negative judgment, ask… What… precise behavior(s)… client is engaging in? What does… mean to me? What is a compassionate understanding… of why… client is engaging in that behavior?…”
Advocacy
- 8 step process for implementing social justice and advocacy interventions – Jonnie Seay Lane/Counseling Today – “multicultural competence… Identify the need(s)… Which interventions in this layer relate to my client’s or population’s current problem areas?…”
- How can so many faiths live peacefully together in a society? – Tom Wilson and Riaz Ravat – “tolerance… perpetuates an imbalance of power… At the heart of any concerns about interfaith encounter… power and authority… work hard at establishing trust…”
- Social Work in a Post-Election Nation – archive of 7/13 #MacroSW chat… Kristin Battista-Frazee… @SocialWorkToday… possible cuts in services and fewer jobs for social workers… clients uncertain about their futures…”
- Servant Leadership – Innovate Podcast – “Tiziana Dearing… servant leaders, who embody the Jesuit ideals of “men and women for others,” are just the kind of changemakers our nation requires right now…”
- Survival In Higher Ed Is Important, But So Is Moving The Needle – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “education that describes the systems of oppression… frees some students who may have grappled with internalized racism… with the understanding that where they are… is not entirely their fault…”
Healthcare
- Association is not the same as causation – John Castle – “best way to test whether one factor is likely to cause a change in another factor is by conducting an experiment on people separated into two groups. In one group, people are exposed to factor 1, and in the second group people are not…”
- First Responders— Using Behavioral Health Approaches to Improve Safety for All – SAMHSA – “Creating Safe Scenes
is a free online training course featuring interactive elements to train first responders…” - How Multi-Sector Health Partnerships Evolve – Emmy Ganos – “report by ReThink Health, a Rippel Foundation initiative, is a snapshot of what health-focused partnerships look like, and how they evolve…”
- Building a Bridge Between #SWtech and #HITsm – Sean Erreger – “keep up with the latest technology… two hashtags… #SWtech… social workers interested in… its impact on our profession… #HITsm… innovations that drive health information technology…”
- Improving Collaboration among Health Communication, Health Education, and Health Literacy – NAM – “fields… share… strategic communication… can help individuals, groups… make positive health decisions… evidence-based materials… achieve more equitable access to health information… resources…”
Social Work, Technology & Education
- 7 Ways Technology Can Enhance Your Social Work Conference Experience – Linda May Grobman/New Social Worker – “Most… conferences… official conference app… listing of all the conference sessions and a scheduling function that allows you to place specific sessions on your calendar…”
- How Technology Is Improving Brain Health – Evie Harrison/Social Work Helper – “To treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)… virtual reality (VR) (simulated real environments through digital media)… gradually exposes an individual…”
- How to End Mental Illness Stigma on College Campuses – Becky Oberg/HealthyPlace – “education is critical… People fear what they don’t understand… let students know it’s okay to seek help for a mental health condition…”
- Teaching Technology-Mediated Practice in a Clinical MSW Program – Janet Vizina-Roubal/Laurel Hitchcock – “Students had to be “the therapist” and “the client” using all four types of technology (texts, emails, etc.)… students… understand and practice the possible struggles…”
Self-Care/Inspiration
- Emotional Ecosystem of Work-Life Balance – Practice of Being Seen interview w/Mineela Chand – “How can teams and organizations build a healthy ecosystem?… De-cluttering and re-balancing life towards things that nourish you…”
- Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Creating Self-Care Culture Within Workplace – InSocialWork podcast – Nancy Smyth interview w/Beth Kanter – “strategies to help both individuals and nonprofit organizations obtain impact… organizational changes… to advance employees’ well-being…”
- Practicing Mindfulness – Selling the Couch interview w/Kim Engstrom – “we must learn to take time for ourselves… Why mindfulness is NOT the same as meditation… How the benefits of mindfulness “show up”…”
- Spiritual Practices in families – Launching Your Daughter – “Spirituality is the inner knowing, connection to universe or higher power, higher awareness… Journaling, meditating, chanting, taking walks in nature, body movement are all spiritual practices…”
Nonprofit Career & Private Practice
- Case Consult Notes, Collaterals and Collaborations! – Maelisa Hall – “a note template for… case consultations… template for interaction with collaterals, such as a former therapist, a physician or a psychiatrist…”
- How To Improve Productivity, 25 Comprehensive Tips – Practice of the Practice – “identify the 20% that is producing the 80% of our most desired outcomes… track time… take regular breaks…”
- Paying Your Dues? – Allison Puryear – “New clinicians need to cut their teeth before “earning” the right to private practice… disagree… I believe in hard, strategic work. Work that allows you to build the life you want…”
- Planning for Nonprofit Success – interview w/David Grant – “there should be more time set aside for staffs and boards… to be much more specific about what success will look like for their organization, so they can plan backwards from that shared vision…”
- Solutions to Common Insurance Woes – Perfected Practice – “Pay close enough attention… Trends on WHY those claims are being denied… information errors… eligibility issues…”
- Yep, You Need a Professional Will – “covers the technical details of your practice, such as… location of records, and passwords… how to contact each client, what you want communicated, and to whom you wish to refer them…”
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