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Mental Health Roundup 8/21/17 – 9/10/17

This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in better parenting, engaging teens, taking a public stand and sharing social work expertise, avoiding burnout and building a private practice.

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

• Adult Children of Alcoholics: How Addiction Affects the Entire Family – Sharon Martin – “six primary roles in an alcoholic family… The enabler tries to reduce harm and danger through enabling behaviors such as making excuses… for the addict. The enabler denies that alcohol/drugs are a problem…”
• Adult Friendships: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – Miriam Kirmayer/Psychology Today – “We should know how to make and keep friends as an adult… We don’t have enough friends…”
• Be Yourself, Save Your Family – Neil D. Brown – “Being self-oriented is operating from a clear sense of who we are, our boundaries, our limits, our expectations… switch… to being self-oriented and thereby putting your kids in charge of their own behavior…”
  • Goal Setting to Engage Adolescents – Beck Institute – “Tying treatment to what an adolescent really cares about… increase their buy-in… What does the teen want? What’s getting in the way?…”
  • How To Be Supportive of The LGBTQIA and Trans Community – Family Couch podcast w/Dr Traci – “exert the effort, ask questions, do research and learn what is relevant… a child will know at a young age…”
  • Raising an Assertive Daughter– Launching Your Daughter podcast w/Julie Hanks – “identify and own your insecurities, any past issues… any relationship hang-ups… you won’t project… or repeat unhealthy cycles…”
  • Teens And Credit Cards: Teaching Teens To Master That Card – Diana Simeon/Your Teen Mag – “ Start talking  about  credit… Explain how interest works…”
• Describing Your Feelings (Printable Worksheet) – Kim Peterson – Which feeling would you like to describe? If your feeling had a shape, what would it be?…”
• Expressive Arts – Drama Therapy – TherapyChat podcast w/Krista Verrastro – “it is active, experiential and integrative… can help externalize the emotions we feel so that we can feel safer to explore them…”
• On Living with Dying: A Guide for Caregivers –  Women in Depth podcast w/Katie Ortlip & Jahnna Beecham – “Why it matters to have a good death… What are the different stages in the labor of dying?…”
• Men & Trauma: 5 Dynamic, Solution-Focused Questions to Use in Therapy – Daniel Lawson/Behind the Human Curtain -“What has been the greatest accomplishment of your life?… builds awareness of their patterns of success…”
• So Your Therapist Is A Social Worker – Justin Lioi – “Person-In-Environment… we speak about race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc.—and not just how the client defines that, but often how these things are perceived by others…”
• Spiritual Injury and Military Trauma (2 of 2)– InSocialWork podcast interview w/Clyde Angel, John Sullivan & Vincent Starnino – “traditional evidence-based treatments did not… address the existential issues… how… developed… their program…”
• Trust in social work – Helpful Social Work podcast – “how we build trust in us as social workers by being open about our expertise and by using the best evidence available…”
• Why a Therapist Needs a Theory – Marie Hartwell-Walker/PsychCentral – “To ground us… organize our thinking… serve as the basis for assessment… determine the type of intervention…”
• Why the partners of trans people need support too – Jo Green – “Being the partner of a trans person puts you in an unusual position where you’re straddling so many different spaces, without necessarily finding yourself at home in any of them…”

Advocacy

• 4 Ways Culture Impacts Acceptance of Mental Health Problems – Lauren Mizock/Psychology Today – “Cultural stigma… explanations for the origin… more effort is needed among the general public to accept…”
• Community – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “For folks with marginalized identities, it is demoralizing to know that the state, at its highest levels is not designed for you… Our privilege in some areas does not erase the reality of our marginalization in other areas…”
  • Dear Humans, Diverse Social Networks are the Answer – Martin Samuels – “human beings tend to resist diversity… The more an individual, a group or society can provide diversity, the stronger it will become…”
  • Racial bias and the brain – All in the Mind podcast – “what sort of group are we raised in. Are we told from the outset that who we are is inclusive, tolerant, welcoming?… Do we get to know people from other groups?… when we do, we often end up becoming less racist…”
• Foster Parenting As We Know It Is Dead – “Foster parents are in short supply… Pay foster parents a wage comparable to a second job within the family…”
• NASW-Michigan and Emerge Michigan Partner to Train Social Workers to Run for Office – SWH – “Social workers understand social problems and human relations, are skilled in collaboration and are committed to improving the quality of life for all people…”
• The Public is Client: Sharing Our Social Work Expertise -Laurel Iverson Hitchcock -#MacroSW twitter chat archive of how to be Media Savvy Social Workers… adopt the idea of seeing the public as client… host…Alyssa Lotmore…”
• September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day – Dr. Deb – “Every year, more than 800,000 people die by suicide and up to 25 times as many make a suicide attempt…”
  • ’13 Reasons Why’: Strengths, challenges and recommendations – Counseling Today – “Raising awareness that suicide is a real problem… Suicide is complex and individual… Parents need to not just talk but watch, listen and connect…”
• Therapists Should Take Public Stands – Trauma Institute – “Bystanders are correctly regarded as complicit… If I don’t want to be regarded as a complicit/supportive bystander, then I have to actively oppose the wrong that’s being done…”
  • Wheelin’ & Dealin’ with Neal & Vilissa, Episode 2 – “What did the 45 Administration do This Week? (HBCU conference postponement, transgender military ban… All Politics Is Local… All Politics Is Theater…”

Healthcare

• Comparison groups should be similar – Jessica Rohmann – “strategies to minimize differences between groups… how to critically read and evaluate the quality of comparisons made…”
• Suicide-related internet searches following the release of 13 Reasons Why – Mental Elf – “concerns are that the series: Glamorizes suicide… Suggests that suicide is a plausible solution… there were 900,000 to 1.5 million more suicide search queries than would have been expected…”
• Mental health apps for young people: an evidence-free zone? – Natalie Nelissen/Mental Elf – “indications that young people find mental health apps acceptable… no evidence to support their safety and effectiveness…”
• “That’s crazy”: Stop using psychiatric words as insults – Smitha Murthy – “Words matter… battle against the stigma of mental illness is ongoing…”
• We need a whole-community response in health and health care – Susannah Fox – “Why is health care discounting ordinary people as a resource?… We are… leaving half the team on the bench…”
  • Life After the Storm: Children Who Survived Katrina Offer Lessons – Benedict Carey/NYT – “children who adapted fastest typically had family and networks with resources that held together… or acquired strong allies…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• Ice Breakers For The New School Year – thesocialworkpad/Free Spirit Advisory Board – “Icebreaker activities are a great way to get kids talking about themselves and connecting with their classmates…”
• Most Common Student Writing Mistakes and How to Fix Them – Karen Zgoda – “list is geared toward social science writing and use of APA Style…”
• Public Understanding of Science: Key Insights and Actions – APA free webinar Sept 15 at 12PM EST… Challenges… public have when trying to understand science… Implications for education policy… research…”
• Value of Not Knowing – Social Change Podcast/Dean Tom Gregoire:- “too many people are too certain… my greatest capacity to be harmful to other people is when I’m absolutely certain. Not knowing is powerful…”

Self-Care/Inspiration

• How to Find MOTIVATION for Art and Creative Expression – Lisa Mitchell – “self-care is always a work in progress… Make a pros and cons list. What are the costs of NOT making art?… What do I stand to gain?…”
  • Into the Depths: Studio Time, August 2017 – Amy Johnson Maricle – “A lot of what inspires me is seeing other artists’ work, gathering ideas and inspiration… and spitting out something of my own…”
• How To Sit Through a Panic Attack When You Can’t Leave – Tanya J. Peterson/HealthyPlace – “Focus Object and Mindfulness… Carry something small… Focus on it… what does it look like, sound like, feel like?…“
• My Experience(s) With Burnout – David Klein/Practice of the Practice – “in private practice… especially in the beginning, the temptation can be to take on any prospective client and, too many of them…”
• Self-Care, A-to-Z: Sealed with a KISS – Keeping It Simple Self-Care – Erlene Grise-Owens/New Social Worker – “Simple Self-Care strategies—i.e., takes 15 minutes or less…”

NonProfit Career & Private Practice

• 3 Ways Strategic Marketing Prevents Burnout, & How You Can Build a Practice – Marissa Lawton/Family Therapy Basics – “clinicians avoid becoming burnt out by designing a practice that lets them work with whomever they want in whatever ways they want…”
• 5 Ways to Authentically Connect with Referral Sources – Selling the Couch podcast – “Identify where your ideal population hangs out… Come from a heart of service… Go deep instead of wide…”
• Assessment Dilemmas and FAQ’s – Maelisa Hall – “purpose…make sure you have a clear understanding of the client’s need so that you can adequately plan for their treatment…”
• The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy  – SSIR – “four qs… effective strategy… What is your organization trying to make true that isn’t true now?…”
• How to Help When Your Colleague Dies – Catherine Wilson/Private Practice from the Inside Out– “Get in touch with the family of the deceased… hang a sign… advise clients that their counselor is not available and who to call for information…”
• Mindful News Consumption Tips for Nonprofit Professionals – Beth Kanter – “Assessment… burnout begins with passion and excitement… next… passion waning… passion challenged, and finally passion depleted…”
• This Is Business. Should You Leave Your Faith at the Door? – Camille McDaniel – ” being CLEAR and CONFIDENT in the way you serve people… ethically brand your business and specializations…”
• What Happens When You Decide To Write a Book – Mercedes Samudio/Abundance Practice-Building – “write from a space of wanting to enhance others’ understanding… questions to ask yourself…”

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