Mental Health Roundup 10/23/17 – 11/12/17
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 stand up for themselves and others, view mental health/illness differently, understand how social workers are heroes, use technology for scholarship, build a group practice 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
- 5 Strategies of Abusive Families with Adult Children – Elisabeth Corey/SJS – “They deny the abuse… “false memory syndrome”… They will act like the perfect family… The nicer they act toward you, the more confused you get…”
- Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness – Therapy Chat podcast w/Daniela Paolone – “chronic illness can be like having the stomach flu in varying degrees for years…”
- Combat Self-Blame with Self-Forgiveness – Elisha Goldstein/Love and Life Toolbox – “you are not the first person who has made this mistake… act you may have committed is now in the past…”
- Does Sexual Harassment Affect Rape Survivors? – Elizabeth Brico/HealthyPlace – “everyday sexual harassment increases the risk that a survivor of sexual assault will develop posttraumatic stress disorder…”
- Empowering Your Kids to Stand Up for Themselves (and Others) – Devorah Heitner – “Mentorship is critical… Show them that you stand confidently in your values and opinions, even if… considered unpopular…”
- Gather ‘Round the Family Dinner Table – Wendy Young/Kidlutions – “Family dinners are more than just a meal. It’s a time to connect, share and create memories…”
- How to Develop an Individual Grief Plan – Heather Armstrong/SWH – “Make an appointment to grieve… allow space and time for this process without guidance from well-meaning family members and friends…”
- How To Support A Spouse With Mental Illness – Julie Hanks – “Encourage treatment… educate yourself… have realistic expectations and boundaries…”
- Managing Finances and Stress for Women – Launching Your Daughter podcast – “When you are clear with your values then you control where and how you save, give and spend your money…”
- Practical Guide to Gender Diversity and Sexuality in Early Years – Deborah Price – “book extract… It is important for families to see themselves and their children reflected… extend this by showing… range of families and lifestyles…”
- Psychopathology of Extreme Masculinity, Mass Shootings, Assault and Rape of Women – Athena Staik – “cultural milieau that idealizes violence for men (and authority figures in general)… breeds domestic violence… bullying… mass shootings…”
- ‘Me, Too’: Sharing Stories of Survival After Rape, Other Sex Abuse – Zawn Villines/Good Therapy – “prevalence of the #metoo hashtag has brought to light what was once invisible… Help the survivor find ways to feel safe…”
- The Rise of Neurofeedback – Ryan Howes/Psychotherapy Networker – “The goal is to find the place that feels good to their nervous system; it’s entirely personalized…”
- Routine Screening for Eating Disorders in Clinical Practice – Jenna Line/PsychCentral – “simple screen… Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI-3) or…Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)… as part of the intake process…”
- When Therapy Stalls Use ART! – Lisa Mitchell – “Our assessment about the therapeutic relationship is often incorrect… draw a representation of… relationship… make a list of descriptions that their art communicated… identify something they would like to change about their art…”
Healthcare
- Dementia care in hospital: training, leadership and culture change needed – Caroline Struthers – ” training as a single strategy is not enough to influence staff to adapt the care they provide for people living with dementia…”
- Does mental ‘illness’ exist? – All in the Mind – “seeing mental distress as an illness is the wrong approach… need a model of care which supports people who are distressed due to their social and life circumstances…”
- Personal well-being networks for severe mental illness: the importance of being social – UCL Psychiatry MSc – “Recognising weaknesses in our social networks allows practitioners to intervene at the right place and right time, and accelerate the recovery process…”
- The ROI of Health and Well-Being: Business Investment in Healthier Communities – Sara Zellner and Lawrence Bowdish – “Cost savings that would increase over time… Healthier, happier, and more productive employees…”
- Stress & The Resilient Brain – Women-in-Depth w/Melanie Greenberg – “brain… responding to stress… Ways in which you can bring the prefrontal cortex online and slow things down… neuroplasticity…”
Advocacy
- ACOSA Website Fund: Advancing Macro Practice – Rachel L. West – “we live in a time of peril… in the midst of vast technological change… current website is vulnerable to hacks…”
- Addressing Health Disparities and Promoting Healthy Aging – InSocialWork podcast w/Dr. Kristie Seelman – “unique challenges that lesbian, gay, and bisexual older adults face…”
- On Allyship & Cultural Competency – Practice of Being Seen w/Joy Harden Bradford – “What allyship really means and what we all can do right now for minorities and people of color…”
- Diversity and exclusion – Helpful Social Work podcast – “role social work has in responding to diversity and overcoming exclusion… speak up for people whose experience is outside the range…”
- Exploring the Image and Burn-Out of the Child Welfare Worker – Kristin Battista-Frazee – Archive of #MacroSW Chat from 11/2/2017… Child welfare, mostly associated with child protective services, has the primary goal of ensuring the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families…”
- Food Waste Solution Summit – A Social Work Perspective – Sarah Feteih/SDSU School of Social Work – “Fear of liability… greatest barrier… to donating unused food… At the macro level… systemic change… at the micro level… Incorporating food security as part of clinical assessments…”
- Identity – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “with my current lack of full licensure, I am not recognized as a Social Worker… systems of power and privilege are infused into the policies and practices…”
- Latinos’ Underuse of Mental Health Services – Robert Rosales/bcsocialwork – “incorporate fatalismo within the recruitment of Latinos to mental health services…”
- Note to GOP: To improve women’s economic opportunities, don’t cut family planning – expand it – Brookings – “Improved access to the most effective forms of contraception has empowered millions of women to control their fertility and, with it, their economic fortunes…”
- The Problem With “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” – Trauma Institute – “If victims more often experience respect and justice, more victims will come forward, more offenders will be charged and convicted, and fewer offenders will be available to harm new victims…”
- Using Love & Intention As Tools For Activism – Family Couch w/Jillian Roth – “what it means to be an activist today….bring… into the family… Privilege can help or hinder attempts for intentional justice…”
Self Care/Inspiration
- Choosing from the Heart – Amy Johnson Maricle w/Connie Solera – “how art helps us know ourselves and our needs… your own creative process… diminish the power of the inner critic…”
- A Conversation on Self-Care for Social Workers – Erlene Grise-Owens, Dr. Justin “Jay” Miller, and Mindy Eaves on video -moderated by Linda May Grobman – “self-care and ethics, self-care as a lifestyle,and self-care strategies… “
Social Work, Technology and Education
- 25 Higher Education Presidents to Follow on Twitter – Josie Ahlquist – “higher education is leading on social media rather than lagging behind the corporate world in adoption…”
- The Most Popular Apps for Teenagers: What’s Hot, What’s Not – Laura Richards – “Instagram (76% of surveyed teens use it) and Snapchat (75%). Facebook and Twitter are less popular, with 66% and 47% of the teens…”
- Noah’s New Phone: New Book Teaches Kids to Use Technology for Good – Dina Alexander – “it has become imperative to start teaching kids early how to behave and interact with others online… book is a great start…”
- Publishing an e-book in under 24 hours – Ermintrude – “I uploaded the word document into the Kindle publishing tool. It gives you the option to see how the book will look in different formats…”
- Technology Tutor: Revisiting the ethics of discussing clients online –
- Social Work Superheroes – Social Work podcast w/John Vassello – “connects the dots between superheroes… and the life and times of social workers… first to create an action figure…”
- Using Technology for Social Work Scholarship: Creating and Sharing your Work – Nancy J. Smyth, Melanie Sage & Laurel Hitchcock – “social work educators can use blogs, podcasts, videos, and infographics to create and share content for professional purposes…”
- What is An API and Why It Matters to Social Work – Sean Erreger – “We are experts in getting complex real life systems to talk to each other… be a voice in developing code to get systems to talk to each other…”
NonProfit Career & Private Practice
- Be Your Own Biller – Abundance Practice-Building w/Danielle Kepler – “How NOT to decide whether or not to take insurance… Which Insurance to panel with… How to get on panel(s)…”
- Business Plan and Finances – Kelly Higdon – “business plan talks about why you have this business, what services are provided and for whom and at what cost…”
- Get Organized, and Rule Your Therapist Life – Ili Walter – “choose one system that could genuinely simplify your tasks… ConverKit powers… emails… Zoom for… live meetings… Asana to organize…”
- How do you create a positive culture in private practice? – Selling the Couch w/Kate Campbell and Katie Lemieux- “How to build a collaborative, supportive, encouraging, and team-based culture… Getting clear on your vision, mission, and culture…”
- How to Write a Client Attracting Online Profile – Camille McDaniel – “know who your target audience is… be very clear on the problems you solve, your methods for achieving results…”
- Keeping your Nonprofit Safe and Happy Online: Dealing with Harassment – Hannah Donald/Beth Kanter – “infographic… to make sure your organisation has a consistent way of dealing with online abuse…”
- Making The Cut: School Counselor Application Tips and Tricks – Jeff Ream – “you cannot be over prepared… make them think they cannot get by without you… come up with your slogan or message…”
- The “Nuts and Bolts” of How to Build a Group Practice – Joe Sanock w/Alison Pidgeon – “use of an electronic health record system, hiring administrative help, and writing down your processes…”
- Secure Texting Is Now Cheap and Easy, and It’s Time to Stop Using SMS and iMessage -Roy Huggins – “Secure texting requires… Therapist and client both possess smartphones… both use the same secure texting app…”
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