Mental Health Roundup 9/25/17 – 10/22/17
This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in building children’s ability to cope with trauma, reducing bullying in schools, understanding racism and white privilege, owning your expertise and more.
This wrap-up’s main themes are:
- Therapy and Relationships
- Healthcare
- Advocacy
- Self Care/Inspiration
- Social Work, Technology & Education
- NonProfit Career & Private Practice
Therapy and Relationships
- 6 Tips to Help Kids Manage Anxiety – Lynn Lyons’ workshop – “goal is not to get rid of the natural process of worry, but rather to change how you… respond to it…”
- After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships – Women-in-Depth w/Jonice Webb – “ways in which Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) can affect your choice of partner… make shifts… parenting…”
- What is Childhood Emotional Neglect? – Sharon Martin – “can be hard to identify because it’s what didn’t happen in your childhood…”
- Coming Forward About Sexual Assault – the Wisdom of Judith Herman – Louise Godbold – “Learning how to keep yourself safe even if it evokes censure or ridicule is empowering and can help you heal from trauma…”
- Debunking Modern-day Motherhood Myths – Julie Hanks – “what we see online is usually… the prettiest part that people want to show the world… Motherhood is HARD…”
- Empowerment with teddy bears – Kristina Sargent – “intentional projection… Step 1. Immediately disengage from power struggle… Step 2. Introduce a third person (or animal)…”
- The gambling zone – All in the Mind w/Natasha Schull – “intermittent rewards which you can’t predict… dopamine reinforcement… highly addictive… People… experiencing stress… more likely to succumb…”
- “Handshakes”: Spoken Word on Gender and Masculinity – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “Guante… one of the many forms of posturing… toxic masculinity… the handshake as a test of dominance…”
- How to Cope If Hashtag #metoo Triggered Trauma and Anxiety – Melissa Renzi/HealthyPlace – “As a survivor of sexual trauma… both empowered and anxious… Move your body… Use grounding techniques…”
- How Parents Navigate Divorce with Teens – Launching Your Daughter w/Stuart Fensterheim – “experiencing divorce… do it without blaming… Grieving is part of the process…”
- I Had An Eating Disorder. I’m Raising a Girl Who Eats – Jane Parent/Your Teen Mag – “Honor your body… Food is not your enemy… It’s all about moderation… never used the word “fat.” Ever…”
- The Illustrated Guide to Dyslexia and Its Amazing People – Richard Rogers – “visual content to bring dyslexia to life. Suitable for all age groups… Conventional dyslexia books have too many words…”
- Reframing Imposter Syndrome -Practice of Being Seen w/Melody Wilding – “paradox of the therapist’s “blank slate”… Resculpting ourselves through accomplishment and reflection…”
- The Secrets of Exceptional Counselors – Bethany Bray – “Jeffrey Kottler… book… honest and self-critical about their mistakes and failures… practicing what you don’t do well… practice what they preach…”
- Transgender Well-Being and Awareness – Family Couch w/Abi Weissman – “what it means to be under the “trans-umbrella”… what a professional… can do next to be understanding…”
Healthcare
- Access to data = access to power – Susannah Fox – “Data about your health and that of your community can empower you to make — or demand — changes… Health disparities between Blacks and whites run deep, no matter the age or ailment…”
- I.R.S. Says It Will Reject Tax Returns that Lack Health Insurance Disclosure – “it is taking steps to enforce the most controversial provision: the tax penalty people face if they refuse to obtain health insurance…”
- New Sesame Street Tools Help Build Resiliency – Jeanette Betancourt – “build coping skills and foster nurturing connections between children and the caring adults in their lives…”
- Patients included? Twitter impact at health care conferences – Amy Price – “engaged patients are powerful accelerators of information flow… greatly deepen engagement in conversation… compared to physicians…”
- Thoughts from the Global Evidence Summit –
Advocacy
- 11-Step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege – Jon Greenberg – “Importance of Confronting Race Despite the Taboo of Race… Historical Foundations of White Privilege…”
- Ableism In Social Work: Working Toward Inclusion – Archive of #MacroSW twitter chat – Pat Shelly/Matthew L. Schwartz – “Social workers… with physical and visible disabilities face… ableism in hiring… buildings and workplaces that aren’t up to ADA…”
- Gender-Based Violence and HIV Infection: African Immigrant Women – InSocialWork podcast interview w/Dr. Joy Learman – “underlying dynamics that can increase a woman’s risk… need for support… policies that promote women’s reproductive health…”
- Handgun Waiting Periods Could Reduce Suicides and Homicides – Zawn Villines/Good Therapy – “Overall, waiting periods reduced homicide rates by 17%, and suicide rates by 11%…”
- Harvey Weinstein is NOT a Sex Addict. He is a Sexual Predator – Jonathan Hetterly/Shrink Tank – “Sexual assault and rape is a sexual crime… about power and dismissing another person’s consent…”
- Tackling Inaccessibility in Seattle & NYC: My Travels on 4 Wheels – Vilissa Thompson – “inaccessibility that looked differently due to the structural makeup of the areas…”
- Trump Health Officials Just Quietly Defined Life As ‘Beginning at Conception’ – “If a fertilized egg is defined as the start of life in the final draft of the HHS plan… devastating consequences… You have until Oct 27 to have your say.“
- Voting and Privilege: How My Privilege Makes it Easier for Me to Vote, Even When Voting isn’t Easy – Laura Cook /SJS – “United States citizen volunteering in Chile… September came and went and my ballot never arrived…”
Self-Care/Inspiration
- Feeding your Soul, One Mindful Creative Act at a Time – Amy Maricle – “limit my screen time and invest energy in the things that feed me… more space for creative magic and wonder…”
- Finding Gratitude & Peace: Self-Compassion In Troubled Times – Therapy Chat Podcast w/Tim Ambrose Desmond – ““dialogue-based mindfulness training,”… client is guided through a meditation while giving the clinician feedback about their experience in real-time…”
Social Work, Technology and Education
- Code Therapy – A Mental Health and Technology Documentary – SWH – “online programs and apps that teach evidence-based therapy skills have the potential to make mental health support more accessible and affordable…”
- Cool Tools & Apps for Education – JimmySW – “GoogleDoc where anyone can add tools they use in the process of education or work…ADD your own apps and tools…”
- Digital Leadership Throughout Campus – Josie Ahlquist – “everything from advice on digital reputations the realities and risks and rewards of a digital presence…”
- Everything You Needed To Know About Social Work In One Google Search – Sean Erreger – “Role clarification for social work is complex. The public often doesn’t always understand what we do…”
- Harnessing Social Media for Social Work Research and Scholarship – Laurel Hitchcock and Melanie Sage – “Social media platforms… allow social workers… creating communities of learning and practice that bridge the gap between practice and research in social work…”
- A New Approach for Nonprofit Professional Development: Micro-Learning – Beth Kanter – “something bite size to apply immediately… free micro course… Preventing Technology Burnout…”
- Pioneering the Grand Challenges on Social Media as Macro Practice: #MacroSW at #APM17 – Patricia Shelly, Laurel Hitchcock, Karen Zgoda, Stephen Cummings – “how social workers can support the Grand Challenges… how online communities can benefit social workers…”
- The Social Bond: A Practical Way for Schools to Reduce Bullying – Sameer Hinduja – “kids are much less likely to… engage in wrongdoing… high levels of 1) attachment 2) commitment 3) involvement…”
- Social workers’ perceptions of the use of a closed Facebook group as a participatory professional space – Deb Stanfield – “we are still learning how to operate in this new kind of professional milieu…. link between professional ethics and online safety… tenuous…”
- Social Work & the Media – David Niven – “Communities tend to believe much of what they read in the media… show social workers making a difference and being proud to do so…”
NonProfit Career and Private Practice
- 7 ways to stand out in the crowd and get more clients! – Deb Legge/Behind the Human Curtain – “If you can’t take the referral… provide alternatives to… referrer (or… client…”
- Everything Social Workers Need To Know About Professional References – Valerie Arendt/New Social Worker – “be thoughtful about who to ask… Acceptable references can include…”
- How to Own Your Expertise and Attract Your Ideal Therapy Clients – Ili Walter – “Accept that you know more than your clients… find your magic…What presenting problem do I enjoy?…”
- Structuring Your Website and Copy That Speak to Your Ideal Clients – Selling the Couch w/Elizabeth Cush – “Figuring out who you want to (and DON’T want to) work with…”
- How to Win Clients at Every Inquiry – Practice of the Practice – “Return Calls – Ideally That Day … inform folks upfront how much time we have… (I reserve 15 minutes)…”
- Important Security Notice About WiFi (“KRACK.”) Urgency: Low-Moderate – Roy Huggins – “flaw affects the security of all WiFi…”
- Money Mindset Mini Training – Michael J Formica/Abundance Practice Building – “Working with your fears… when you raise your rates… being aware of what you need to charge your clients to survive…”
- Multiple Streams of Income – Getting Prepared – Kelly Higdon – “think outside the box… Do you love who you are working with?… “
- Negotiating a raise with insurance companies – Cathy Hanville – “let them know why you deserve a request… emphasize something you do that is different…”
- Using Social Media, Prescriptions to Consider – Madeline Stoltz – “incorporating social media into your practice… I don’t communicate over email or any forms of social media. We have a patient messaging system that’s secure… Google yourself occasionally… “
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