Best in Mental Health: Career Boosters!

Mental Health Roundup 8/27/18 – 9/25/18

This roundup contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! It may assist you in practicing more self-care, being more productive, getting on insurance panels, helping teenagers who self-harm, being a political social worker 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

64 of the Best Things Ever Said to a Griever – What’s Your Grief – “often the best things aren’t words of comfort at all…They are an acknowledgment of pain, remembrance, and an ability to be present…”
First two chapters of ‘Trans Teen Survival Guide’ – “Owl and Fox Fisher – “There are so many trans people and they are so diverse that there isn’t a universal experience that is more trans or truly trans… short answer…Trans people are people who don’t identify with the gender that they were assigned at birth”
Helping Others Find Work: Step 1 – Kelly Mitchell/SJS – “Step one is establishing trust. Never promise more than you can deliver; a job isn’t guaranteed… find out where things have broken down in the past…”
Teen Self Harm: How Can You Help A Teenager Who Injures Herself? – Mary Helen Berg/Your Teen Mag – “Discuss healthy ways to handle strong emotions and use self-harm as one example of an unhealthy method…”
- Cope with Suicidal Thoughts Using Digital Media – Jenny Capper/HealthyPlace – “Penzu is an online journaling platform… practicing mindfulness…”
Sound Health: Shaping Our Children’s Lives Through Music Engagement – Dana Foundation – “Infants use synchronous movement to help learn to navigate their social world—and decide who to trust and who to befriend…”
Successfully Raising Your Strong, Confident, Wild Child – Family Couch w/Tangee Veloso – “Time-in is connecting and really finding out what is going on… when your child does something you don’t approve of… “stop, drop and pause.”…”
Teaching Self-Advocacy at Home Pt. I – Pt. 2 – Wendy Taylor/SWH – “key to teaching children how to advocate for themselves starts with helping them to recognize their own needs… encourage children to vocalize their confusion, stress, worries, or desire for help readily…”
The unbearable vulnerability of eating enough – Fat Nutritionist – “Don’t substitute a life for made-up rules about food… Being alive means feeling things, so feel them…”
Why Our Unconscious Rules Us and What to Do About It – Francine Shapiro – “memories stored in our brain are either processed or unprocessed. If they are processed, it means that the brain has done its job and integrated a learning experience into our memory networks…”
Yes, gender is a social construction. No, that doesn’t mean it’s not real – Sam Killermann – “Gender is one of the few ways we still allow (actually, encourage) systemic, identity-based discrimination and segregation…”

Healthcare

Thyroid Issues, Anxiety, Depression and More – Kidlutions – “New findings show that 45% of people with depressive disorders and 30% of those with anxiety also have autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT)…”
Turn on, tune in – All in the Mind – “world of psychedelia… psychiatry itself is undergoing a renaissance… drug provides this ability to engage with painful thoughts that normally you would avoid but under the drug you can go there and do it and it’s not that bad…”
Smartphones do not cause loneliness – Martin Webber – “Today our social connections are rooted less in the places we live and more in the activities we undertake… Our phones provide us with the choice (a key feature of individualism) of who to engage with…”

Advocacy

Black Lives Matter Five Years Later — Sustaining a Social Justice Movement During an Adversarial Administration – Social Work Today – “If every social worker were to reach out and ignite just 10 people in their sphere of influence to vote in alignment with the NASW core values and principles, the voter base would expand to more than 6.5 million people…”
Does “Privilege Checking” Make Us Less Racist, or More? – Brad, Spisz & Tanega – “while a White privilege salience exercise may increase anti-racist attitudes in moderate and liberal Pre-Millennials, it is associated with a backlash eﬀect in Millennial conservatives and moderates…”
Free content collection as it relates to child-parent separation – Wiley – “psychological trauma, implications of policy and law, and environmental influences, as it relates to child-parent separation…”
The Harriet Tubman Casting Cripping Up Issue – Vilissa Thompson – “Harriet Tubman… disabilities… poignant to her life story as what she did to free our people… She became disabled because of slavery…”
Youth organizing, restorative justice, youth of color, community organizing – Doin’ The Work interview w/Keno Walker – “first-hand account of the crushing impact of racism and poverty on marginalized communities…”

Self-Care/Inspiration

52 Fun Ways To Take A Mini Break and Regenerate for Nonprofits – Beth Kanter – “BRB! is a digital card deck from the Center for Storybased Strategy…52 different ideas on how to take a restorative break from the hard work of social change…”
Forget Those Long Hours: Self-Care Drives Success – Susan Biali – “The list of activities that constitute self-care includes getting enough sleep, eating properly, exercising, quality time with the people you love, meaningful hobbies and having time for personal reflection…”
Protecting Our Emotional Energy: Tips for Helping Professionals – Sharon Martin – “purposefully check in with myself and notice what was happening inside my own body as I sat with my clients… we each have needs we need to tune to…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

Bridging Divided Values? – Jonathan Wynn – “listening to others’ values… makes us both better able to understand others’ view points and the importance of making effective arguments more generally…”
Frequency and Engagement: Analyses of Emerging Adults’ Social Media Use – InSocialWork podcast interview w/Carol Scott – “importance of understanding the distinction between frequency and engagement in the study of social media use… guidelines for talking with emerging adults about their use of social media…”
Social Work Exam Question: Psych Ward Social Worker – Social Work Test Prep – “A psychiatric hospital social worker tells her supervisor she’s been feeling irritable, exhausted… unsure of her ability to do her job anymore…”
Researching social work – Ermintrude – “We need, as a profession and as academics and researchers within the profession, to be clear that WE own social work and can define it, rather than government agencies. It has to be more than a sum of the roles that social workers complete…”
Stages of Growth into a #DigCitStateofMind – Nancy Watson – “stage 1: digital aversion…stage 2: digital anxiety… stage 5: digital advocacy… everybody can make a difference”
Social work in these trying times – #MacroSW for 9/20/2018 -Stephen Cummings – ACOSA:
RT @SWKresistance: Gentle Reminder: Social & Poltical Action is part of the @nasw code of ethics…”
What’s Your Perspective? – Cultures of Thinking Part Two – Jennifer Hollander – “Perspective can start world wars, create conflict, and divide people. However perspective can also help us develop empathy through understanding others and thus end conflict and unite people…”

Nonprofit Career and Private Practice

The Brand Called You – Lynn Grodzki – “Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive…. Use your writing, speaking, and daily interactions… to express elements of trust…”
Doing Clinical Research in Private Practice – ZynnyMe w/Sarah Attwood -“IntegReview IRB, an independent IRB that can work with therapists in private practice who want to design and launch research independently… “
How to Get Credentialed and Paneled and Mistakes to Avoid in the Process – Selling the Couch w/Jeremy Zug – “factors that influence who gets paneled are market saturation, your specialty, and the healthcare need… Specialties that are looked at favorably are eating disorders and addiction specialists…”
Improve Your Online Therapy Skills: Learn to Use Online Disinhibition Effect – Roy Huggins -“ODE can enable clients to take the process less seriously or to disconnect from the process when the going gets tough…”
I’m Thinking About Hiring My First Clinician, Now What? – Practice of the Practice – “when thinking about “who” to hire, think about the mission of your practice and try to bring on a clinician who’s own professional values and mission are in alignment…”
Stuckness in Marketing – Abundance Practice w/Tracy A. Rodriguez-Miller- “Difficulty marketing could mean you’re stuck on your niche or ideal client… What if your ideal client doesn’t want to go to therapy?…”
Using “Profit First” In Your Private Practice – Gordon Brewer w/Mike Michalowicz & Kasey Compton – “When profit comes last, we are saying it can wait…every business goes through 4 stages… ACDC Attract prospects… Convert (prospect now becomes a customer)… Deliver (our offering)… Collect (revenue)… in ACDC model… identify weakest part of business, entire business elevates…”