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Mental Health Roundup 5/19/18 – 6/17/18

This roundup contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in understanding how to talk to our kids about tough topics such as mass shootings, how grief and loss are felt in our digital world, how to encourage greater social justice, dissociative identity disorder, prevent suicide 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

• About Alter Switching in Dissociative Identity Disorder – HealthyPlace – “Just as each DID system is different, the way we might experience switching can also differ… Most outsiders, including my husband and often times our therapist, do not realize when a switch has taken place…”
• Assessment – Helpful Social Work podcast – “how to gather information openly and purposefully in order to understand someone’s story…”
• Coping with Aging Parents – Cathy Hanville – “Your parents may want you to do everything for them or do nothing at all… Make sure they do all their legal paperwork…”
• Cults & Psychotherapy With Former Cult Members – Therapy Chat interview w/Natalie Feinblatt – “4 criteria an org. needs to meet to be called a cult… how the term can be used and misused in relationship to religions and rehabilitation programs…”
• Dialectical Dilemmas and How ACT Models Can Help Guide Treatment – Greg Holich/GoodTherapy.org – “Defusion techniques can help a person become unstuck from unrealistic expectations or standards, while the inclusion of values can help guide behavior…”
• Grief and loss in a digital world – Cheryl Fisher – “Thanatechnology: Any kind of technology that can be used to deal with death, dying, grief, loss and illness… young people are even more likely to seek grief support online…”
• Helping Male Survivors of Sexual Violation to Recover –  Sarah Van Gogh/JKP – Men who have experienced sexual violation often have a kind of invisibility in the world…”
• How To Get The Moral Authority To Set Effective Limits – Neil Brown – “To help our kids find their potential and overcome their fears and perceived limitations, we need to believe in them, see their wonderful qualities and capabilities and mirror it back for them…”
• How to Talk to Kids about Porn – Robyn Silverman w/Gail Dines – “How did the images make you feel?’… How would you like to feel afterwards when you are in a relationship?…”
• How to Talk to Kids About Tough Topics: School Shootings, Suicide, Death – Christina Hibbert – “Acknowledge openly what’s happened, how the child feels, and talk about it together…”
• Mental Illness and Mass Shootings: The Facts – Wendy Young – “First, my heart and prayers go out to all affected by the trauma and grief of it all… t’s time we work hard on prevention…”
• The Midlife Unraveling – Brené Brown- “midlife unraveling is a series of painful nudges… There was a significant amount of pain and loss, but something amazing happened along the way – I discovered me…”
• Reflections on Fatherhood in the 21st Century –  Women-In-Depth w/Sean Fitzpatrick – “Understanding the meaning of “father” beyond societal expectations… presence, or lack thereof, of a father and how it influences a life…”
• Trauma Treatment: Evidence-Based Approaches versus Intuituve Approaches – Aaron Brinen – Exposure therapy… Cognitive therapy… Both treatments deal with beliefs… coping strategies (e.g., avoidance of memories and reminders of the memory) that maintain the symptoms of PTSD…”

• Adolescent cannabis use increases risk of an adult psychotic diagnosis – Mental Elf – “There appeared to be a dose-response relationship; risk of psychosis was only increased in those who had used 5 times or more…”
• Case for Health Literacy – Moving from Equality to Liberation – National Academy of Medicine – “We need to liberate patients, caregivers, and family members from complex information demands and confounding systems. The responsibility of the health system is to establish health literate organizations and care…”
• Epilepsy and seizure prediction – All In The Mind podcast – “1% of the population has chronic epilepsy, about 5% of the population will have seizures during their life… Surgery can be extremely effective. If you can find the cause of seizures…”
• One-third of US adults may unknowingly use medications that can cause depression – Science Daily – “patients and health care providers need to be aware of the risk of depression that comes with all kinds of common prescription drugs — many of which are also available over the counter…”
• Persistent and severe postnatal depression predicts adverse outcomes in children – Mental Elf – “most vulnerable group consisted of women meeting criteria for moderate and severe postpartum depression both at 2 months and 8 months after delivery…”

Advocacy

• 3 Tenets of Social Justice Dogma that are Getting in Our Way – Sam Killermann – “Only True Believers Welcome (the Social Justice Purity Test)… Once Problematic, Always Problematic…”
• Seven reasons to worry about the American middle class – Eleanor Krause, Isabel V. Sawhill – “employment and wages are declining… Middle class children’s prospects are declining…”
• Aunt Vi, #QueenSugar, Black Women, & Our Disabled Bodies: Why We’re Still Whole – Vilissa Thompson – “Disability/illness is neither – it is simply a part of the human experience.  Disability is the ONLY marginalized identity that someone can become a member of at any given point in their lifespan…”
• Backlash Against Disciplinary Action Turns Focus to School Counselors – aanderson/SJS – “as schools increase security with more school resource officers, the need for school counselors is deprioritized. Houston’s public schools, for example, have one counselor for every 1,175 students…”
• Empowering women, policy advocacy, graceful revolution, coaching – Doin’ The Work interview w/Melissa Bird, PhD, MSW – “how people’s fear of “doing it perfectly” holds them back…”
• Jurors Are Left Traumatized by Some Court Cases – Robert T. Muller – “Over the course of a criminal trial, jurors are often exposed to disturbing graphic evidence…”
• Let People Who are Non-Verbal Communicate in their Own Way: A Social Work Challenge – Kasey Soucy/SWH – “first step to be taken by every social worker should be to ask the person with the disability “what can be done to support you?” or “what do you believe needs to be changed so you do not continue to feel oppressed or feel like your voice is not being heard?”…”
• A Preventable Public Health Problem – Suicide Prevention Is Everyone’s Business – Linda Rosenberg/New Social Worker – “While other causes of death are declining, the suicide rate keeps climbing… we must make it easier for people to get the help they need…”
  • Anthony Bourdain’s Death Highlights a Culture of Mental Health Stigma – Rachel Kitson/ Shrink Tank – “Fame and fortune does not insulate us from hopelessness, emptiness, exhaustion, or despair…”
  • Exploring Suicide and Suicidal Ideation – Family Couch interview w/Stephanie Davis – “Empathy is important… build a network of support when your child is dealing with these types of issues…”
• Social Action 104: Intro to Community Organizing  – twitter chat hosted by #MacroSW on 6/7 by Rachel West… overview of community organizing, touching on community organizing theory and types of organizing… archive“
• Strategies to Advance Service Delivery and Address the Challenges of the Homeless Population: Social Work’s Call to Action (part 1 of 2) – InSocialWork interview w/Heather Larkin and Amanda Aykanian – “exploring misperceptions about homeless social work practice… provides opportunities for interconnectivity across all levels of practice…”
• This Interview with Dr. King Doesn’t Get Much Air Time – Relando Thompkins-Jones – “King… called for a revolution of values in America; implicating racism, economic exploitation including poverty, and militarism…”

Self-Care/Inspiration

• The 3 Top Reasons Why You Self-Sabotage and How to Stop – Melanie Greenberg – “Faulty thinking… Our human brains tend to be wired to cling to the familiar, to overestimate risk, and to avoid trying new approaches…”
• 7 Ways To Use Spiritual Practice To Heal and Resist – Ixty Quintanilla/Everyday Feminism – “Go back to your traditions, medicinal, and spiritual practices… Build a garden and care for plants…”
• 15 Ways to Stop Energy Vampires Draining Your Life Source – Alfred James -“Energy vampires are quite simply those people around you that suck the life/energy out of you, leaving you feeling drained, energy-less and even depressed…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• The Connected Executive in Higher Education – Josie Ahlquist – “Digital engagement, influence, and leadership is the core of my work… missing piece for campus leaders is a community… community in a private Facebook group… no cost…“
• Google College Search: Google Launches New College Search Feature – Wendy Wisner/Your Teen Mag – “At this point, the feature is only available for mobile devices, with limited features also available on desktop. And, as of now, it is only available for four-year colleges…”
• How certain is the evidence? – Bethan Copsey – “Systematic reviews are considered to be amongst the ‘gold standard’ of evidence… GRADE tool was developed to help people assess the certainty of the evidence in a systematic review, and the strength of recommendations…”
• If You Can’t Attend The 2018 NASW National Conference In Person – You Can Attend Online – Kim Simpson – “four options ranging from a single day pass to a full package of Keynote Presentations, Plenary Presentations, and Breakout Presentations…”
• Incorporating Flipgrid into the Social Work Classroom – Todd Sage/Teaching & Learning in Social Work  – “platform works like a discussion board, only all the content is short video clips…”
• Progress Monitoring Social and Emotional Goals While Utilizing Technology – Marjorie Metcalf – “tool that I have used most often has been Google Forms… ClassDojo is another innovative tool…”
• Should you share your data? – Mark Robinson – “Scientific transparency helps encourage scientific reproducibility… concern… someone will “scoop” an author’s future paper…”
• What Is On Your #EHRbugLIST ?? – Stuck On Social Work – “can’t trend vitals for more than the 3 last visits… doctors and patients as part of the design team… healthcare IT workers… walk on rounds with clinicians…”

NonProfit Career/Private Practice

• De-Clutter Your Email Inbox! Three Quick Steps for Busy Therapists – Sarah Leitschuh/Family Therapy Basics – “Delete and Unsubscribe Liberally… Pick and choose which lists you are subscribed to based on what type of information is most relevant to you right now…”
• Do Therapists Really Get Disciplined for Failing to Take Notes? – Maelisa Hall – “this commonly happens when some other catalyst creates a client complaint or Board investigation… experienced clinicians appear to be more at risk”
• Finding Your Purpose & Passion In Private Practice – Gordon Brewer – “I think of purpose as the place we can put our passion into action. Your passion helps inform your purpose. Then your purpose will help you inform your niche…”
• All About GDPR – Allison Puryear’s interview w/Michael J. Formica – “Best Practices going forward for the GDPR… How to do it… What sites need the most attention…”
  • How to address new website privacy issues – Cathy Hanville – “I needed to include information on my mailing list, Google Analytics data collection…”
• How much does it cost (investment) to have a private practice? – Camille McDaniel – “count the cost in advance, to have the resources and stamina needed for the journey…”
• How to Deidentify (or not) Client Info Under HIPAA – Roy Huggins – “deidentified information is not Protected Health Information, and is therefore not covered by HIPAA… a client…deidentified if you are able to remove all 18 of the identifiers…”
• How to Ensure Your Personal Safety As a Clinician – Selling the Couch interview w/Adriana Alejandre – “Three things to make your office safer: Move your chair closer to the door… Notify colleagues if a particular client makes you feel unsafe… Don’t reveal if you are the sole clinician in the office…”
• How to Start a Million Dollar Practice – Joe Sanok’s interview w/Kasey Compton – “overview of the five phases…include purpose, planning, process, profit, and people…”
• The new slaves? – Alessandra Pigni – “Even among those who have meaningful jobs – idealists who work in social change or serve as doctors, nurses, social workers, humanitarians – there is an amount of soul-killing duties that turn people into bureaucrats…”
• Summer in Private Practice – Sharon Martin – “expect that there will be some attrition, but new clients will continue to call… Offer different kinds of service…”
• When Life Happens – Debt – Kelly Higdon’s interview w/Mallory Grimste – “experience with debt, spending and variable income in private practice…”
• Why Nonprofit Workplaces Are Stressful and What To Do About It – Beth Kanter – “Toxic workplaces are taking a toll on our physical and mental health… Nearly 50% report having changed jobs to escape stress…”

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