Best in Mental Health: Cultural Competency

Mental Health Roundup 1/15/18 – 2/4/18

This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in developing greater cultural competency, raising/treating children, employing technology in social work, providing online social work education, building your private 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

• Anxiety Makes You Forget – Lynn Lyons – “worry makes you forget when things worked out okay… Expect it to show up, and prepare reminder bridges ahead of time…”
• Bottom-Up Processing Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – Therapy Chat interview w/Pat Ogden – “draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches…”
• Dissociation and coping with trauma – All in the Mind – “we all have parts, it’s just people with DID, dissociative identity disorder, have those parts very separate from one another, and so one part may not know the other part at all and may not know the main person who occupies the body…”
• Ego State Therapy and Writing – Dima Dupéré – “approach that teaches clients to work with different aspects of themselves… ‘the frightened child’, ‘the control freak’… to help resolve conflict, anxiety, trauma, etc…”
• A good death – Susannah Fox – “Modern medicine knows many things, but it does not know one big thing: When death will occur… Death is universal. Be ready…”
• The Harder They Fall – Martha Crawford – “We’ve been facing giants… for thousands of years… If you use the giant’s methods, he will only be strengthened… only way to defeat a giant is to use one’s wit, to be wiser, cleverer, more intuitive…”
• Maps of Narrative Practice: Externalizing and Re-Authoring Conversations – Ili Walter – “view of the therapeutic landscape–what has been traveled with clients and what is yet to be explored…”
• Raising Healthy Children in a Chaotic World – Family Couch w/Meghan Leahy – “sharing your struggle with your children is a crucial opportunity… it is okay to not always know the “solutions”…”
  • 4 Tips To Successfully Co-Parent After A Divorce – Katherine Wilkinson/Julie Hanks – “when you’re directly interacting with him/her in front of your children, remember to act cordially and with respect…”
  • My Husband Undermines My Parenting – Neil D. Brown –  “parents should not undermine each other’s authority with the kids… Where am I giving away my power?…“
  • The Tide Pod Challenge And Other Stupid Teen Stunts? An Expert’s Take – Jaimie Seaton/Your Teen Mag – “talk to… kids about their social media use in general rather than approaching them with each new scare”
• Social Thinking Will Make You Re-Think Social Skills – Thrive with Aspergers w/Michelle Garcia Winner – “What social thinking is, as compared to social skills… steps to improve your social competency…”
  • New Research Shows How to Facilitate Social Courage – Melanie Greenberg – “courage is mostly an internal quality of a person, although workplace environment and leadership may have a role in empowering people to speak or act courageously…”
  • Toxic Relationships: Friend and Family Estrangement – Emily Sullivan/HealthyPlace – “When you find yourself alienated from the world and the only relationship that you have left is your toxic, romantic relationship, it will become increasingly difficult for you to leave…”
• What Attunement Really Looks Like – Molly Layton/Psychotherapy Networker – “To tune in to the client, I have to let go of my own demand to fix or understand them… mindfulness is so important to cultivate…”
• A Year of Financial Self-Discovery – Center for Financial Social Work – “twelve monthly issues of FREE downloadable client tools and materials…  to motivate and engage clients in the financial healing process…”

Healthcare

• Diversifying Digital Health – Sabah Pervez – “Year after year diversity reports show little improvement… Establish inclusive values, “not just who, but how”… Get on the right platforms…”
• How Childhood Trauma Can Affect Your Long-Term Health – NYT – “greatest risk is with the cumulative dose of adversity… We can’t protect every child from bad things happening to them, but we can change the way we respond as a society…
• How SNAP Benefits Seniors—and Health Care’s Bottom Line -Ginger Zielinskie – “much less likely to be admitted to nursing homes and hospitals…”
• Internet of Things in Healthcare: What are the Possibilities and Challenges? – Ray Parker – “number one benefit of adopting IoT in a healthcare organization is cost reduction… pivotal role in the monitoring of an individual’s health…”
• Is FOTU Fueling Millennial Anxiety (and Depression)? – Lara Fielding – “FOTU [Fear Of The Unknown] is when absence of information causes fear. Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) develops when you have a low tolerance for experiencing that normal fear…”
• The Origins of Happiness: can we predict life satisfaction? – Mental Elf – “Unemployment is unequivocally negatively associated with happiness…”
• Science Communication: Dana Resources – You’ve Got Some Explaining to Do … free PDF… translating neuroscience to general readers… Successful Aging and the Brain…”
• Youth online discussion forums: how do young people support each other and what do they talk about? – Mental Elf – “young people on the Kooth forum discussed mental health issues… physical health issues… interpersonal relationships… school-related issues, sexuality, identity issues…”

Advocacy

• Cultural Competency for Helpers – Practice of Being Seen w/Natalie Overton – “learn from people of color with humility rather than privilege, honing empathy as a skill… self-reflection…”
  • One Reason Why Anti-LGBTQ Folks Don’t Change Their Views – Sam Killermann – “remember our own journeys… unlearning the oppressive beliefs that we internalized… the mistakes we’ve made… as a compass of empathy when we see others starting down the path…”
  • Changing the conversation about aging – Lindsey Phillips/Counseling Today – “Aging is a natural part of life, and many people age well… Most older adults don’t develop dementia or lose their ability to walk…”
  • Depth and Breadth of Awareness – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “You can definitely have diversity and not have inclusion… changing the dynamics… assessing our breadth and depth of awareness…  Communication is done in pairs…”
  • Non-binary inclusion in the workplace – “Non-binary includes everyone who doesn’t identify solely as male or female… invisibility and people’s assumptions… best way to approach non-binary inclusion is through conversations…”
  • Race-Related Stress – Therapy for Black Girls podcast w/Crystal Joseph – “what race-related stressors look like, stages of Wokeness… manage some of these stressors…”
• Getting Care Right for All Children – Free Online Course – SWH – “six-week truly interactive course… Filmed lectures, articles and reports from world leading experts…”
  • How Much Does Child Abuse Cost? Study Says $400K Over a Lifetime – Chronicle Of Social Change/SJS – “child abuse can be prevented: Adopting a public health approach toward child abuse prevention… greater access to services…”
• Intelligent Mobility as a Means to Improve Health Equity – Antwan Jones – “constant, unsettling relocation from one abode to another”… perpetuates health disparities and inequities… better prepare residents to move into neighborhoods that meet their specific needs…”
• Women and Mass Incarceration: Unique Needs and Challenges – InSocialWork podcast w/Elizabeth Allen – “the socio-political structural factors that must be addressed if women are to reconnect with their families and their communities of support…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• Everyday Carry: Crisis Team Edition – Social Work Tech – “the (many) things I carry in my bag… that I pack especially for working my side-gig at the Crisis Team at a local hospital…”
• If, When, and How to Communicate Social Work Research Beyond Academic Outlets – JaeRan Kim – “feedback loops that scholars can receive when sharing their research… can be constructive…”
• NASW’s Modernization Plan Encounters Resistance – Rachel L. West – “Modernization… positions the chapters to share resources and ideas more easily… Ten state chapters filed a lawsuit…”
• Parenting in the Digital Age: It’s Time to go on the Offensive – Dina Alexander – “Help your kids see potential in all technology… Look for opportunities to use technology to help others…”
  • Social media and gang violence: Interview – Social Work Podcast w/Desmond Patton – “think of the online world as a new social environment that social workers need to understand…”
• Peer-review and publication does not guarantee reliable information – Dennis Neuen – “Peer review is highly variable… It is itself subject to bias…Don’t just read the abstract or main results. Read… especially the Methods section…”
• Practice Standards on Social Work and Technology – InSocialWork podcast w/Karen Zgoda and Allan Barsky -“guidance when utilizing technology in micro, mezzo, and macro level interventions… benefits, challenges, and risks…”
  • Free Q and A Discussions about recent revisions to NASW Code of Ethics – “The 2017 revisions to the Code focus largely on the use of technology and the implications of technology for ethical practice…”
• Social Work Distance Education Assessment of Readiness Checklist (SW-DEAR) –  Laurel Hitchcock, Nancy J. Smyth, Melanie Sage – “assessment includes 43 items that cover… University.. Program (college/school/department)… Faculty…Student Capacity…”
• Thought Leadership 2.0: The Relational Leadership Update – Josie Ahlquist – “Campus leadership should… be using the principles of thought leadership to build relationships and start important dialogues…”
• #UsToo?: Sexual Harassment in Social Work Education – archive of #MacroSW twitter chat w/Pat Shelly, Melissa Bird & Kristie Holmes – “how we should address harassment in social work schools across the country… how to recognize when you are being harassed…”

Self-Care/Inspiration

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