Best in Mental Health (April 2019)

April 2019 Mental Health Roundup

This roundup contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! Latest guidelines on how to encourage clients to enter treatment, build resilience, use experiential psychotherapy, promote community health equity, assess suicide risk, set boundaries, become an adjunct professor in social work and much 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

• Are You Feeding The Behavior That You Want Your Child To Change? – Neil Brown – “Rather than face their own sense of being not good enough, they aim those feelings at others.  Now, why would your daughter have a sense of not being good enough?…”
• On Becoming an AMHP – Ermintrude – “AMHP (approved mental health professional)… best training I’ve ever done… focus… on human rights and an understanding of the power one holds to make an independent decision about the detention and removal of liberty of another person…”
• Building Families: Social Workers in Foster Care – SWH – “foster care system is not perfect, but social workers are there to make it as good as it can be… Foster care children need emotional and behavioral support. “Most of the time these kids also have a therapist…”
• Culturally competent end-of-life counseling – Ashley C. Overman-Goldsmith – “be well-informed about what is going on in the world around us and to consider the ways in which events may affect our clients…”
• Encouraging Individuals to Enter Treatment – Beck Institute – “Potential clients may be reluctant to enter treatment for a variety of reasons… If they’re anxious, they may think: What if therapy doesn’t help?…”
• Help! My Feelings Are Too Big! – JKP interview w/K. L. Aspden – ” the fight/flight/freeze reaction… relevant to everyone as we all have an amygdala (alarm bell) which is there to protect us in emergencies. But it can be set off accidentally when we don’t need it, and this can cause some extreme reactions…”
• Here and Now – Martha Crawford w/Jeremy Hobson- “there’s a real need for people to slow down when they’ve made an error… What really does us in is a kind of very binary thinking about all good and all bad… or I can’t possibly have done anything bad because I’m a very good person..”
• Peter Levine’s Bottom-Up Approach to Healing – Lauren Dockett/Psychotherapy Networker – “Peter Levine, the originator of a form of body psychotherapy called Somatic Experiencing… traumatized clients often present with somatic complaints… People process their trauma from the bottom up—body to mind—not top down…
• Recovering Resilience – Women in Depth interview w/Linda Graham – “Brains tend to have a negativity bias… how to learn to bounce back… various strategies… somatic tools to refine the skill of resilience…”
• Teaching Your Teen How to Self-Advocate at School – Meredith Gavrin/Your Teen Mag – “help your child think about what he can request from the teacher that would be most helpful… ask… to draft an email to the teacher, explaining the situation, and to copy you on the email…”
• What is the Difference Between Conventional Talk Psychotherapy and Experiential Psychotherapy? – Hilary Jacobs Hendel – “I am interested in everything you have to say AND I am wondering if we could slow way down to notice what you are experiencing as you share with me… helps a person recognize… what they are experiencing below the neck…”
• When Being Trauma-Informed Is Not Enough – SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT starts when we learn… How trauma has impacted our brain and nervous system and how to reverse those changes… There is hope presented by neuroplasticity… How purpose and meaning contributes to post-traumatic growth…”

Healthcare

• 10 Mental Health Crisis Lines You Should Know About – David Susman – “National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)… Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741… National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)…”
• A Blueprint to Help Communities Promote Equity – Culture of Health – “Health equity ensures that everyone, no matter who they are, receives access to the services and supports they need…”
• Daily skunk cannabis use associated with a 5-fold increase in psychosis risk – Mental Elf – “Use of high potency cannabis was most prevalent in London, Amsterdam, and Paris, and authors cite evidence that 94% of street cannabis available in London is skunk…”
• Debunking the Two Chemical Imbalance Myths, Again – Psychiatric Times – “Far from asserting a “chemical imbalance theory” of mental illness, academic psychiatry… has advocated a “bio-psycho-social” model of mental illness…”
• Dementia, sleep, and daydreaming– All in the Mind – “people with some forms of dementia lose the ability to daydream… 30% to 50% percent of the risk for dementia is due to things that are modifiable… sleep is emerging as new risk factor…”
• How should we assess suicide risk in mental health services, or should we stop doing it? – Mental Elf – ” OxMIS (Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide) tool… web-based calculator to… guide clinicians assessing suicide risk…”
• Pans / Pandas + Mental Health Part One -Therapy Chat interview w/Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge – “body has a misdirected immune response to some type of outside agent… inflammation… creates neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive symptoms… increasingly common… between 8 and 13…”

Advocacy

• Anti-Science Movement: The Psychology Behind the Deadly Trend – Shrink Tank – “cognitive dissonance… climate change… consensus… bucks up against people’s political views… effort to push back… political piece about climate change… is about money…”
• But I’m “just a social work(er)” student – SJS – “social workers belong in policy because we’re good at it… First you need to figure out who this bill will affect; these are your stakeholders…”
• The Fine Line Between Willing and Coerced Sex Work– #MacroSW Chat 4/25/2019 hosted by Kristin BF… wide continuum from those (primarily women) who voluntarily enter prostitution and create wealth to coerced sex work and human trafficking… transcript“
• How Autism Conferences Can Better Include and Respect Autistic People – Shannon Des Roches Rosa – “researchers need to stop treating autistic people like objects… It’s looking at autism as the problem instead of how to improve the world around us so that autistic people can thrive.”
• How White Denial of Racism Can Fuel Inequality– Tahmi Perzichilli/GoodTherapy – “stigma associated with being racist often fuels white denial… emotional numbness… ignore or perpetuate a system of racism… Replace blame and shame with vulnerability, curiosity, and humility…”
• The Privilege Lie – Sam Killermann – “privilege shows up in two ways: ways society is organized to give you advantages, and ways you aren’t penalized for who you are… we say that the goal is for everyone to have access to those privileges…”
• The Risk and Protective Factors Infographic – NSVRC – “a set of information – like a framework – of things in the world that can increase or decrease the likelihood of sexual violence perpetration… there are areas of our lives, communities, and world that we can change in order to make it a better place for everyone…”
• Sexual Assault Awareness Month with It’s On Us OSU– Social Change Podcast w/Ella Lewie and Nekyla Hawkins- “the me-too movement has helped people feel more comfortable disclosing publicly about their experiences… there’s still a lot of stigma and shame in our culture…”

Self Care/Inspiration

• The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World – Tina Arnoldi/PsychCentral – “It takes effort to prioritize people in our lives. Only when we are willing to put relationships above our professional success and ambitions are we able to connect with others…”
• How to Set Boundaries Without Being Mean – Sharon Martin – “Boundaries… show people how you want to be treated… setting boundaries kindly doesn’t ensure that others won’t get angry…”
  • Boundary Issues Can Cause Anxiety – Tanya J Peterson – “Anxiety makes us believe that we can’t have boundaries. Trying to set up some limits in our life, such as standing up for ourselves… can be so uncomfortable that it causes more anxiety…”
• The Joy of Missing Out (From FOMO to JOMO) – Lisa Brookes Kift – “At its worst and left unchecked, FOMO can lead to depression, bitterness and dents to the sense of self… JOMO essentially means you’re good with where you’re at…”
• See the Good in Others – Rick Hanson – “Seeing the good in others is thus a simple but very powerful way to feel happier … more productive… Slow down… see positive intentions… abilities… positive character traits…”

Social Work, Technology and Education

• Algorithmic Transparency, Bias and Justice – Social Work Futures – “See Dr. Joy Buolmawini’s amazing TED talk outlining what algorithmic bias is all about… “playlist” of resources related to Gender, Race and Power in AI…”
• Becoming an awesome adjunct professor in social work – Patricia (Trish) Desrosiers/Teaching & Learning in Social Work – “teaching is fun… Match your experience and expertise to appropriate courses… social work profession needs you…”
• How to Create and Publish Your Own Mobile Apps in Minutes – Richard Byrne – “Glide is a free tool for making your own mobile apps… anyone who can make a spreadsheet in Google Sheets can make…mobile app…”
• How to Raise Humans in a Digital World  – Dr. Robyn Silverman w/Diana Graber – “Adults- model healthy tech usage… raise kids to be digital leaders not just digital citizens… Activity: Design their own app… Activity: Ask grandparent/ parent what life was like before the internet… “
• Mind Mapping: Memory Tool and Cognitive Decline Insurance – George Huba – “Learn the mind mapping skills that can help preserve your memory and thinking processes… as early as possible…”
• Reflections and Take-Away from Amy Webb’s Book “The Big Nine” – Social Work Futures – “Humanity should always be at the center of AI’s development… AI systems should be safe and secure
• Reviewing the benefits and challenges of overseas practice – Liz Beddoe and Allen Bartley – ” While overseas practice is enriching it carries with it both relocation benefits and costs…”
• Social Work Research on Global Environmental Change – InSocialWork interview w/Dr. Lisa Reyes Mason – “impact that Social Work research, education and practice has on shaping our responses to challenges”
• Students Fall for Misinformation Online. Is Teaching Them to Read Like Fact Checkers the Solution? – Chronicle of Higher Education – “digital literacy that people are getting is actually making things, in some cases, worse… Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers… check for previous work, go upstream of the source, read laterally, and circle back…”
• #SWDE 2019 – Imagining Social Work Education into the Future – Melanie Sage, Ellen Belluomini, & Laurel Hitchcock – “Technology is profoundly shaping the world… over 70 exclusively online programs in Social Work… digital therapeutics…”
• What is a VPN and How Kids Use Them to Hide their Online Activity – Jamie Siggard/Educate Empower Kids – “A common reason kids use a VPN is to get around parental controls…Touch the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the App Store… Type “VPN” into the search bar…”

NonProfit Career and Private Practice

• 10 Ways to Get Your Name Out There – Practice of the Practice – “First, ask yourself… “How do I come across therapists where I live?”… blog… write for the local newspaper… create self-help videos… HARO…”
• A Better Way to Answer the Question “What Do You Do?” – Jen Taylor – “replacing your typical elevator pitch (that’s the 30 second response you give to people when they ask you what you do for a living) with ANY six words that will peak their curiosity to learn more about what you do…”
• Computer and Smartphone HIPAA Security Checklist for Therapists – Roy Huggins -“Security settings… Full-Device Encryption… Strong device password… Antivirus/antimalware… Automatic logout/lock…”
• Diversity and Inclusion: Turning Shared Value into Shared Success – “Committing to inclusive venture capital… address structural barriers to economic mobility by investing directly in low-income communities of color”
• Do it Right–Progress Notes and Online Text Therapy Platforms – QA Prep – “have a solid support network of other therapists to consult… Anonymity can be excellent for the therapy process, but it does come with some issues for you to be thinking about…”
• Getting a Running Start Before You Open – Allison Puryear w/Aime Esher – “getting your website ready… networking… being consistent and upfront with your rate…”
• How To Give a Presentation With Confidence, Humor, and Impact – Jennifer Luna/New Social Worker – “Regardless of what type of social work you practice, professional presentation skills are a must… First, define the objectives… set up an outline… include activities…”
• How to have a big impact in government & huge organisations – Robert Wiblin – “How do you get people to do things when you don’t have formal power over them?… How much can talented individuals accomplish during a short-term stay in government?…”
• How To Use G Suite As a Tool For Managing a Private Practice – Selling the Couch w/Gordon Brewer – “$6 per month for the Basic version… benefit of encrypted email and the BAA, both of which are required by HIPAA laws…”
• Some new tools for making videos – Cathy Hanville – “Doodly helps you make whiteboard videos and Toonly allows you to make animated “explainer” videos… Doodly is pretty easy to figure out…”
• Therapists as Writers – Social Work podcast interview w/Lori Gottlieb – “takes a client’s story out of the therapy room and turns it into something that therapists can appreciate, and non-therapists can get excited about… we are more the same than we are different…”
• Value of ROI Analysis in Technology Grant Writing – Karen Graham – “When an organization is using technology effectively, the results are greater than or equal to the resources invested… ROI = net gain/cost…”
• A zig-zag to multiple streams of income and a group practice – Kelly + Miranda w/Kimberly Slagle – “who is your ideal client… there are enough clients to go around, we don’t have to be the jack of all trades… rely on online presence and digital marketing and connecting with folks that way…”

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