Best in Mental Health: Up Your Knowledge

Mental Health Roundup 3/5/18 – 4/1/18

This roundup contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in understanding manhood/masculinity, racism and diversity in therapy, practice greater self-care, teaching social work, 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

•  3 Ways to Transform Your Experience of Supervision – Daniel Lawson,/Behind the Human Curtain – “Supervision is a parallel process… Increase confidence… through the use of process questions (i.e. How did you do that?)”…”
• 5 Ways to Become a More Media-Savvy Parent – Rachelle Motte/Educate Empower Kids – “Images and icons are fast displacing words as the dominant communication system…”
• Brain science in the sand tray – Kristina Sargent – “amygdala as the “security guard” or “smoke alarm” of the brain… amygdala’s job is to keep you safe. It scans for threats…”
• How To Better Understand Autism, Bereavement, and Grief – Steve Borgman -“an autistic individual may feel intense grief yet laugh uncontrollably… Emotional confusion is just part of what this person is going through…”
• How to Handle Racism, Diversity in Therapy – Pamela Berard/PsychCentral – “clinical competence and cultural competence can’t be divorced… it’s our… responsibility… to find ways to address… racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia…”
• How to Manage Uncomfortable Feelings – Heal Your Hunger interview w/Joan Rosenberg – “Emotional eaters overeat to avoid uncomfortable feelings… 8 primary feelings that cause most of our problems…”
• How to Stop Anxiety From Obstructing Your View – Lynn Lyons – “rethink patterns of rigid adherence that impede flexible problem solving… help children see that the solution is sometimes a mere few inches in either direction…”
• Living with Political Stress in an Increasingly Polarized Society – Louis Hoffman/GoodTherapy.org – “Limit your time reading and watching the news… Minimize exposure to news sources with a reputation for showing only one side…”
• Manhood, Masculinity, & Meaning – Women-in-Depth w/Boysen Hodgson – “What is a man’s armor and how is it preventing him from doing his “shadow work”?…”
• Mindfulness & Somatic Work In Healing Trauma – Therapy Chat Podcast interview w/Lynn Fraser – “Experiences of abuse, neglect and feeling unsafe trigger fight/ flight/ freeze…”
• MDMA and its potential therapeutic use – All in the Mind podcast – “positive results from two small trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Phase 3 studies are underway…”
• Parenting Through the “Launch” Phase – Family Couch interview w/Carol Adkisson – “They want to be grown up but do not want to grow up. She encourages open communication between parents and children so that they can express themselves…”
• Time to Switch from Consequences to Privileges – Neil D. Brown – “privileges concept… encourages kids to learn the concept of taking responsibility. When kids get this concept, it’s empowering… all privileges have conditions…”
• Trauma Informed Oregon: Initiative to Change How Adverse Childhood Experiences are Addressed – InSocialWork interview w/Mandy Davis – “challenges and barriers to promoting and sustaining trauma-informed policies and practices…”
• When help isn’t helpful: Overfunctioning for clients – Kathleen Smith/Counseling Today – “stay curious about counseling clients who are challenging… When… jump in and try to fix… communicating… they aren’t capable of solving a problem…”
• Why Can’t I Shut Off My Mind? – Hilary Jacobs Hendel – “Core emotions (fear, anger, sadness, disgust, joy, excitement and sexual excitement) are natural… How do you know you are anxious? What physical sensations tell you that?…”

Healthcare

• How ‘Bad Medicine’ Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women’s Symptoms – Terry Gross – “many women… fighting to get their symptoms taken seriously… bringing a partner or a father or even a son… helpful…”
• Migrating To Recovery-Oriented Methadone Maintenance – IRETA – “nonjudgmental historical overview of methadone maintenance services… positive model of methadone services for individuals with opioid use disorders…”
• Population Health at #HIMSS18: Making Big Data Small – Stuck On Social Work – “Looking at population health data can assist with suicide prevention in your patient population… identify the higher risk clients…”
• The Rise of the New Bio-citizen – Susannah Fox – “people “are pursuing a range of activities from analyses of genomic data for diagnosing rare diseases, identification of potential therapeutic drugs, organization and crowdfunding of clinical trial cohorts, and even self-surveillance or self-experimentation.”
• Smartphone apps for depression: do they work? – Michelle Eskinazi/Mental Elf – “evaluating 22 apps… significant small to moderate positive effect for smartphone apps on depressive symptoms compared to controls…”
• What relationship do stressful life events, neglect and abuse have with functional neurological disorder (conversion disorder)? – Mark Edwards/Mental Elf – “meta-analysis of studies… consider the mechanism of the association… rebalancing of diagnostic approach, explanation and treatment…”

Advocacy

• Consulting, reproductive justice, racial equity – Doin’ The Work interview w/Nicole Clark – “brief overview of the Reproductive Justice framework…”
• Ecological approach – Helpful Social Work podcast – “importance of biology, behaviour and the environment in social work; and we look at how our approaches to attachment, emotional regulation and competence affect us…”
• Have Cane, Will Strut: Black Disabled Woman – “My experience has been that many disabled women of color are in need of care, caregivers, and community builders and exist in that continuum…”
• Gun Violence, Mental Health, and the Social Worker’s Role – Kristin Battista-Frazee – archive of MacroSW twitter chat on 3/22/18… “how social workers can continue to make an impact to end gun violence… make real change…”
• Some Different Taxonomies for Social Justice People – Sam Killermann – “two social justice educators in different causes (e.g., a racial justice educator and a gender justice educator) might have more to learn from one another… compared to two people in the same cause…”
• Technology and the Trump Presidency will make Americans Great Again – Ellen Belluomini – “#Blacklivesmatter movement began to shift how advocacy became a nationwide phenomena of awareness and support. Technology began to be used to address inequity and racism…”
• Is the #MeToo Movement Leaving Black Women Behind – Kymberly Akpowowo/SWH – “the black woman is a part of one of the most disenfranchised groups…”

Self-Care/Inspiration

• Help Me Sleep! Exploring and Getting Past Insomnia – Brian Collinson – “develop a relaxing evening ritual… predictable daily sleep schedule… “
• I Am Not My Job – Alessandra Pigni – “For centuries people have worked to live and not lived to work… We can’t live as if every day were an emergency…”
• Irvin Yalom on the Possibilities of Aging – Psychotherapy Networker – “I find myself just being much more human and present and open with the people I see… I don’t let a session go by without checking in with a patient about how the two of us are doing…”
• National Academy of Medicine Launches One of Most Comprehensive Online Resource Hubs on Clinician Burnout and Well-Being – “Improving clinician well-being requires sustained action at the organizational, state, and national levels… causes of clinician burnout… consequences… innovative approaches that organizations can take to promote well-being…”
• The New Social Worker Reverse Poetry Contest Winners Announced! – New Social Worker – “We received 21 entries in the practitioner category and 16 entries in the student category. First, second, and third place winners were chosen in each category…”
• Protecting Against Compassion Fatigue – Amy Rollo/Theravive – “get rid of the notion that you have to be a perfect therapist. You cannot do everything for your client… intentionally create a boundary between work and home…”
• Self-care for Social Workers – Social Work podcast Interview w/Erlene Grise-Owens, Justin “Jay” Miller  & Mindy Eaves – “self care plans, organizational care… what schools of social work should do to support emerging social workers to make self care a practice…”
• Social Work and Other Underappreciated Professions that Serve the Common Good – Elizabeth Bowen/SocialWorkSynergy – “thank and acknowledge your colleagues, supervisors, and supervisees for the occupational challenges they navigate each day, and practice radical self-care…”
• Use Your Words: The Power of “Affect Labeling” for Emotional Self-Care – Lara Fielding – “labeling a current emotion can curb the way it gets expressed in the brain, the body, and our behavior…”
• Why I Love Being A Social Worker – Sharon S. Martin – “March is Social Work Month – an opportunity to celebrate and honor social workers and the important work they do…”
• Why You Need a Bliss Book and How to Start One – Morgan Meredith/HealthyPlace – “retrain your brain by looking back through your accomplishments…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• Are digital health interventions meeting expectations? – Stacey Kelly/ACAMH – “Research digest of a systematic and meta-review on the use of digital mental health interventions for children and young people…”
• Cyberstalking – Sameer Hinduja – “Cyberstalking involves the use of technology (most often, the Internet!) to make someone else afraid or concerned about their safety… rarely occurs by a stranger… one form of cyberbullying…“
• Course Mapping for Online Social Work Courses –  Denise Krause, Nancy J. Smyth, Melanie Sage & Laurel Hitchcock – “best practice… process of aligning the course objectives with module objectives and all learning activities in a course to create a visual overview of the course…”
• Interview Questions for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Positions in Education – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “questions… created by people of color practitioners and scholars… if/where/how white people at the school where having conversations about race…”
• Dispatches from the Field–  Innovate@BCSocialWork – “Yvonne Castaneda, MSW student… stigma with accessing mental health support in Latino communities in particular… much of our world… thinking is really based in the white experience…”
• Live-Tweeting – Mental Health Cop – “We want to highlight our work, the pressures on us, the successes we have… to the public… third-party identification has occurred…”
• Macro Students: National Call March 30th –  Rachel L. West – “RSVP by March 28th… share best practices… connect with new chapters…”
• Turning your journal article into a blog post – Rachel Bergan – “By packaging research findings into an accessible blog post, you can reach out both to the public who might be interested, but also to fellow researchers…”
• Working Together – Kaitie Cruse-Poe/Social Justice Solutions – “true beauty of Social Work occurs when we walk alongside our clients, often leading at first, until they come to walk alongside us, utilizing our support to lead their own recovery…”

NonProfit Career and Private Practice

• Collective Impact for Health and Wellbeing – SSIR – ” first step to uniting the campus was to define health in a way that would be useful for all the individuals and units that make up our diverse community…”
• Electronic Health Records (EHR) – Practice of Therapy w/Rob Reinhardt “many EHR’s have… ability to file insurance claims electronically… look… if… fully integrated with the Clearinghouse…”
• Get Your Digital Ducks in a Row – Allison Puryear – “BAA and HIPAA compliance and what companies are best for your practice… When to encrypt your computer? Now…”
• How to Publish an E-Book on Amazon – Practice of the Practice – “set up an author page through Amazon… do the whole profile within it… think… as you’re doing… blog posts…”
• How Will the New Tax Bill Impact Nonprofits? – GuideStar – “nonprofits risk losing donors who gave above the 2017 standard deduction but now fall below the increased deduction… Ramp Up Direct Mail and other Annual Appeals…”
• Investing in Your Business: The Good and the Bad – Private Practice Experts w/Mercedes Samudio – “What do you need? What do you want? What are you REALLY looking for? Your clients often come to you with a surface symptom, complaint, or desire…”
• Niching, SEO, Blog, Website Design– Selling the Couch interview w/Paul Steinke – “Figure out what you like to do—that’s your niche… SEO—looking for words, phrases, and the “felt needs” of clients…”
• Step-by-Step Intake Progress Note – Maelisa Hall – “Limits to confidentiality… Potential benefits and drawbacks to treatment… Consent for treatment… Attendance policy… Communication outside of session…”
• #TimesUp for the Nonprofit Gender Gap – “While women make up about 73 percent of all nonprofit employees, they only hold 45 percent of nonprofit CEO roles…”
• What Every Therapist Needs To Know About Service And Emotional Support Animals – Kimberly R. Duff/Tamara Suttle – “A service animal is an animal that has received special training to help a person with a physical, sensory, cognitive or psychiatric disability…”
• Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace? – Beth Kanter – “FREE webinar… “The 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence, Bots, and Your Nonprofit.”…”

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