Best in Mental Health (Jan 1 – 19, 2020)

Jan 1 – Jan 19, 2020 Mental Health Roundup

This roundup contains some of the latest news in social work, therapy, private practice and more! Learn about dissociation, facing fears and phobias, safe sexting, social justice activism, breaking confidentiality with Siri, what is a professional collaboration network (PCN) and much more!

This wrap-up’s main themes are:

• Therapy and Relationships
• Advocacy
• Self-Care/Inspiration
• Social Work, Technology & Education
• Private Practice

Therapy and Relationships

• All About Disassociation – 4 Episode Compilation – Laura Reagan/Therapy Chat – “dissociation… far end of spectrum… different parts of self that show up and there is no awareness between the different parts… cause of dissociation and dissociative disorders… environmental and biological factors… most commonly repetitive childhood physical and/or sexual abuse and other forms of trauma…”
  • What Is It Like to Hear Voices in DID? – Becca Harges/HealthyPlace – “There are two ways in which we can view how we hear voices with DID. One way is through passive alter influence… Contrastingly, thoughts that are distinctly different from the sound of our own voice can be viewed as being based on intrusive thoughts from alters that are able to break through to our awareness…”
• Can Mr. Rogers Save Us All? Creating More Family Connection & Joy – Lynn Lyons – “presented this lecture on December 16th… stress and anxiety continue to rise… ability to manage… step into uncertainty… fail a test… needs to be practiced… learned… what unexpected thing happened to you today and how did you manage it?…”
• Change Yourself, Change Your Family – Neil D. Brown – “Strategy #1 is back off a bit from trying to change anything other than self-care for you… Strategy #2 is to take an empowered role in your family… you don’t need to make others happy, they can do that for themselves. You are responsible for your happiness and they theirs…”
• Facing fears and phobias – All in the Mind – “Some people are more likely to develop fears… there is a biological predisposition… on top of that… learning factors… Treatment… get on the same page with the client in terms of what is maintaining their anxiety… anxiety response… understand… not problematic to feel those feelings… they are… manageable…”
• Helpful Mental Health Resources for College Students – David Susman – “National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) on campus… outlet for students to work together to reduce stigma and provide outreach and education about mental health on campus… Trevor Project…”
  • Personal Counselling Still Uncommon for Student Therapists – Robert T. Muller – “grim reality of mental illness: no one is immune… stigma surrounding therapy is still seen in the psychological community…”
• How Playing With Your Child Can Help You Be A Better Parent – Greenwood Village Couples Counseling – “Showing your child that you are interested in what they are doing by verbally tracking their play… helps kids connect the dots between objects and words, but it also helps them understand that you care about and watch what they do…”
  • How To Teach Empathy: The Art of the Apology – Donna Moriarty/Your Teen Magazine – “Help your teen identify their feelings of regret over something they’ve done or said…Encourage empathy by asking…“How would you feel if someone did that to you?”…”
• It is Time to Teach Safe Sexting – Sameer Hinduja – “This isn’t about encouraging kids to sext, but about minimizing the worst of the potential problems that could result… Do not send images to someone who you are not certain would like to see it (make sure you receive textual consent that they are interested)…”
  • Understanding the Rise of Nonconsensual Pornography – Crystal Raypole/Good Therapy – “different types, including: Revenge porn… Upskirting (and its counterpart, downblousing) is a type of voyeurism that involves photos or videos of someone’s undergarments… Survivors can pursue legal action if they choose…”
• Proven Topics for Growth in Clinical Supervision – How to Social Worker – “Mandated Reporting: when and how to report to protective services for adults or children… Suicide Evaluation: How to evaluate risk and manage risk that doesn’t require hospitalization…”
• Social Work in a Camouflaged Life – Jessica Manfre/New Social Worker – “military spouse. This means every two or three years, I pack my family, my life, and my social services career in boxes and start my story all over again…”
• What is Applied Behavior Analysis: Definition and Scientific Principles of ABA – Heather Gilmore/PsychCentral – “Applied behavior analysis…  is a science that focuses on socially significant behaviors. It incorporates basic principles and attitudes of science including using experimentation to show causality between an event and a behavior…”
• When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough –  Women-in-Depth interview w/Stuart Eisendrath – “how to treat depression when the antidepressants just aren’t enough… mindfulness-based cognitive therapy… teaches people a different way to respond to their depressive state…”

Advocacy

• 7 Lessons from a Decade of Social Justice Activism – Sam Killermann – “we’re constantly being put into silos by every company that is utilizing big data to sell us… we’re ever-increasingly self-siloing…We’re increasingly losing touch with people who have different beliefs from us… social justice can’t be accomplished in a silo…”
• Apology Statement – MacroSW – “heart-felt apology for any harm we caused in the article published in the New Social Worker Magazine… committed to learning from this experience and working to grow a more inclusive #MacroSW community…”
• Exploring Opportunities for Social Impact and Social Innovation through Public-Private Partnerships  –  InSocialWork interview w/Lakshmi Iyer – “Models of social innovation and entrepreneurship are summarized and examples of how social workers can serve as change agents…”
• It’s all about relationships: Drug Courts – what are they and how do they work? (part 2 of 2)  – InSocialWork interview w/Dr. John Gallagher- “racial disparities his research is revealing related to drug court outcomes… recommendations for practice…”
• Racial Terror’s Past & Present – Dointhework interview w/T. Marie King and Abigail Schneider – “work to recognize and honor the victims of lynching in Jefferson County, beg with research into who the 30 documented lynching victims were…”
• Retirement – Helpful Social Work – “how people experience retirement and the social factors… promote good retirement for all and reduce structural barriers to equality…”

Self-Care/Inspiration

• Another New Year: Time, Change and Resiliency – Brian Collinson – “We need to understand, in a self-compassionate way, how we got to where we are today… how much change each of us has undergone to get here… the experiences that have really shaped us into the particular unique individual that each of us is…”
• New Year Self-Care: 12 Surprising Gifts Of Worth – Christina Hibbert – “The gift of slowing down is the gift of being. It is doing less as we are being more… the gift of realness–the gift of authenticity, being true to ourselves…”
• Slow Down for Resilience – Linda Graham/Love and Life Toolbox – “Sense and Savor Walk is a kind of walking meditation that uses all of our senses to notice our experience... Begin to walk slowly, savoring the input from all five senses…”
• Your Happiness Calendar for January 2020 – Greater Good – “day-by-day guide to well-being. It can help inject a bit of happiness into your everyday life with videos, articles, practices, podcasts, and other content…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• 7 Components of Effective Social Work IEP Goals –  Cindy Hall & Allison Wlhelm/SSWN – “webinar [replay]… Setting – Specific location where the evaluation will occur… Time Frame – The time frame within which the goal should be completed…”
• Ethics Alive! Responding to NASW’s Professional Review Process – Allan Barsky/New Social Worker – “Upon receiving notification of the PR request, you will have 14 days to respond to the PR request… request an NASW consultant to help you through the process… An NASW consultant is a trained volunteer…”
• Hey, Siri: Did you break confidentiality, or did I? – Nicole M. Arcuri Sanders/Counseling Today – “voice assistant technologies in cell phones and other devices have the capability to leak what clients and counselors once believed to be confidential information…”
• How Social Workers Can Help Survivors of Reproductive Coercion and IPV – Amber Sutton & Haley Beech/NASW – “Reproductive coercion includes… birth control sabotage and pregnancy coercion… high for those experiencing other forms of intimate partner violence… Visit Futures Without Violence  “
• National Social Work Education Health Futures Lab!! – Laura Burney Nissen – “Portland State University… home to… lab… explore how trends in technology, climate change, geopolitical shifts and the future of work are set to impact health, social determinants of health… social work practice…”
• Nextdoor – HAPPE – “Nextdoor… app… Community organizations or Macro orientated social workers have the ability to post information about an event on the app as well as invite members of the community to the event…”
• Podcast Assignment for the Social Work Classroom – Laurel Hitchcock, Melanie Sage, Todd Sage & Michael Lynch – “students learn about assessment, evaluation, and/or intervention skills… technology tools and resources… informed about social work…”
• Professional Collaboration Networks. What is a PCN? – JimmySW – “So what is a PCN? Well it’s when a social worker creates a process for learning and exchanging information online with a purposeful set of people and organizations in order to meet some specific professional goals…”
• Recent Ideas from Twitter – Social Work Futures – January 15, 2020 – Social Work Futures – “history, perspectives and importance of Black perspectives on tech and society… TED talk by Daniel Susskind on Three Myths Regarding the Future of Work…”
• SSWN Open Access 2020: Initial Findings Fr/Study of a Tool for School Social Workers – Steve Whitmore – “time study tool was an effective way to enhance social workers’ understanding of how they use their time, the importance of various duties… their ability to have data to generate discussions…”
• #TikTok, Messaging, and Ethics – Sean Erreger – “TikTok is catchy as you can apply music, floating words, and many other special effects… when disseminating information via social media/media, the public becomes our client… We can re-imagine solutions and educational materials in a fun and creative way…”
• Tips for Improving Document Accessibility and More – A Handout – Richard Byrne – “We all have different needs and preferences… Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge can be used to have pages read aloud, to alter the font size and spacing, and to alter the color scheme of articles read on websites…”
• UDL and 21st Century Learning – Faculty Focus – “Multimedia theory posits the idea that people’s brains more effectively integrate new information when they can receive that information in multiple ways…”

Private Practice

• 2020 State of Therapy Tech – Roy Huggins – “mental health licensing boards who permit temporary practice for outside-licensed clinicians… California legislature is bringing us Euro-style privacy laws…”
• 9 Ways To Diversify Your Income Streams In Private Practice – Practice of Therapy – “group sessions… start a group practice… selling online products… Public or Live Events… offering continuing education events…”
• Case Study: From Insurance Solo Practice to Private Pay Group Practice – ZynnyMe w/Yolanda and Shamon – “story of a private practice that was taking over life on nights and weekends to one that has boundaries… clear vision… successful.”
• Expert Tips On Private Practice – Practice of the Practice  – “Joe Sanok: If you have that e-course, workbook, keynote or webinar, that’s going to make it easier to scale…”
• How Online Reviews Help Improve The Private Practice – Selling the Couch w/Keely Holmes, PsyD – “What a clinician should do when a negative review appears—and why they can’t respond in any way… things to think about and implement in your practice before reviews come…”
• IRS Form 1099-MISC: Rules and Exceptions – Simple Profit – “IRS requires business owners to issue Form 1099-MISC to people or business entities they pay during the year… If you suspect you may need to issue a Form 1099-MISC, the first step is to collect a Form W-9 from the person or business you are paying or will pay…”
• Taxes and Private Practice – Abundant Practice podcast w/Jennie Schottmiller – “looking at your business results every single month… You can make corrections to guide your business through the year… you can do your own bookkeeping, but it’s always a good idea to use a tax preparer… “

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