Best in Mental Health (3/27/17 – 4/9/17)

Mental Health Roundup

This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more!

This wrap-up has 5 main themes:

• Advocacy
• Therapy and Relationships
• Healthcare
• Social Work, Technology & Education
• NonProfit Career & Private Practice

Advocacy

• #BlackDisabledGirlMagic Series – Vilissa Thompson w/Keah Brown – “to be a Black disabled woman in America… It means that you are at once invisible and expected to shoulder the burden no matter what it is or who is carrying it…”
• Disability Across the Life Span: A Critical Social Work Issue – Fordham GSS – “19 percent… a disability, with more than half reporting that the disability was severe… Vision impairment in later life… can threaten the older adult’s self-image, identity… physical, social, and emotional functioning…”
• Islamaphobia is Racism – Relando Thompkins-Jones – ” Resource for Teaching & Learning About Anti-Muslim Racism… interdisciplinary syllabus with social justice education as its objective…”
• Reproductive Justice: Your Struggles, Your Recommendations – Nicole Clarke – “survey to see what are current struggles folks are facing… how they gather feedback that shows the impact of their work… infographic… shares… highlights…”
• Smart Decarceration – InSocialWork podcast interview w/Drs. Matthew Epperson and Carrie Pettus-Davis – “an alternative to the mass incarceration movement in the United States… assist people who have committed crimes…”
• To Win Against False Information, We Must Play Offense – SSIR/Annie Neimand – “reading false information more than once can make it seem more true… anchor…. preemptive messaging in scientific consensus…”
• Trump budget would harm well-being of all Americans – NASW/Greg Wright – “proposed cuts would have a harsh impact on nutrition programs for the elderly… hungry and homeless… Legal Services Corporation…”

Therapy and Relationships

• Five of the best Alzheimer’s blogs – “Alzheimers.net…  The Caregiver’s Voice… caregivers and professionals who work with adults with cognitive impairment or dementia…”
• Art and Science of Therapy as Craft –  Ili Walter – “Anna Lynn Schooley… What makes someone a master is 10,000 hours of practice with a coach… Practice means outside of performance.  The therapy session is performance…”
• Being Present: Social Work’s Gift – New Social Worker/Andrea J. Calabrese – “A connection cannot be made and therapeutic work cannot be done if one is not fully present in the moment…”
• Challenges of Coping with the Addiction of Someone You Love – Social Work Helper/Jerry Mooney – “many myths about drug addiction… a disease that is often developed along with mental health issues…”
• Childhood Traumatic Stress: The Mind-Body Connection – Therapy Chat interview w/Gabor Maté – “connection between childhood traumatic stress at any point in development – even in utero – and mental and physical health and well-being…”
• Discussing Mental Health Stigma With Children Is Important – HealthyPlace/Laura Barton – “children would be able to learn what the realities of mental illness are and how negative reactions, behaviours, or thoughts from others and themselves can be stigmatizing…”
• Diversity, Seek Understanding and Love in families – Nicole Burgess [Launching Your Daughter] – “Seek to understand your daughter’s declaration of being gay, bi-sexual or transgender… her dating someone of a different ethnicity or race…”
• Ethics in Macro Social Work Practice – archive of #MacroSW twitter chat w/Heather McCabe – “important to think about how work at the micro level interacts w/#macroSW. Many clients w/ same system issue = need for advocacy…”
• From Chaos To Tranquility In The Preschool Years – The Family Couch interview w/Rachel Sklar – “utilize… [our kids’] strengths in our conversations… doing this allows your children to feel relaxed, safe… comfortable enough to cooperate…”
• How a Faulty Brain Network Causes Depressive Rumination – Melanie Greenberg – “Try Transcranial Magnetic Imagining… Deliberately Focus on a Task… Take a Walk in Nature…”
• How Parents Can Build Resilience With Activities, Movies, and Books – Sameer Hinduja – “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Finding Forrester, Facing the Giants, The Blind Side…”
• Integrating Mindfulness into CBT –  Robert Hindman – “use mindfulness as a potential intervention–as opposed to a guiding principle. Instead of initially teaching… mindfulness to reduce worry… begin by helping… evaluate the content of one of her worries…”
• Managing Psychiatric Medication: A Challenge for Pregnant Women – Nonna Khakpour – “data obtained over the last 30 years, about which medications are harmful and which can be used safely, are incomplete…”
• Mental health implications of undocumented immigrant status – Laura M. Gonzalez and Nathaniel N. Ivers – “person… is already living in a state of physical, mental and emotional deprivation… become familiar with eligibility for health and human services for undocumented immigrants…”
• Overcoming Leftover Depression After Trauma Healing – Trauma Institute – “types of activities… most associated with healing from depression… Tasks that help give a sense of mastery… Social outings…”
• Report Looks for Ways to Better Engage Young Fathers in the Child Welfare System – Chronicle Of Social Change/SJS – “by identifying and involving fathers early on… opportunities for safety, permanency and well-being for children and families…”
• What Age Should Teenagers Start Dating? – Your Teen Magazine/Barbara Greenberg – ” respondents… chose 16 (74%) as the appropriate age, followed by 14 (23%)… need to educate our kids about dating… about love, liking, sexuality, and emotionality…”
• Words Matter: How Language Affects How You Relate – GoodTherapy.org/Trey Cole – “words as both substantial (i.e., able to make a mark) and framing (making what we say and how we say it imminently important)…”

Healthcare

• Digital technology for mental health: asking the right questions #DigitalMHQ – Mental Elf – “collaborative project which seeks to discover the top ten research priorities… complete a short survey…”
• High integrity child mental healthcare – BMJ – “1 in 10 children and young people worldwide have mental health difficulties that substantially affect their lives…”
• How Loneliness Begets Loneliness – Olga Khazan – “People with few social connections experience brain changes that cause them to be more likely to view human faces as threatening… harder for them to bond… If you use…[digital] connections as a way station… lower levels of loneliness…”
• Mental illness and emotional wellbeing: part of the same continuum? – Mental Elf- “low correlation… between mental illness and wellbeing measure outcomes… predictors of mental illness scores… different… predicted wellbeing outcomes…”
• New Guide to Aid in Successful Transition from Criminal Justice Settings – SAMHSA – “10 guidelines… provide action steps agencies can take to work across systems… promote recovery and help ensure successful reentry from jails and prisons…”
• Questioning the uncritical acceptance of neuroscience in child and family policy and practice – socialworknz – “two children’s brains, side by side. Presented as cast iron evidence of the impact of child neglect… The brains were a con…”

Social Work, Technology & Education

• Global Field Ed Dispatches: The Placement (Cambodia) – Innovate@BCSocialWork – “organization… working for focuses on… peace studies and conflict transformation…”
• National Indian Child Welfare Association Conference: ICWA Compliance – Melanie Sage – “Indian Child Welfare Act is a federal law that requires child welfare systems to carry out special efforts to keep children connected to their families and tribes… presentation…”
• #NatCon17: More Hope and Promise – Stuck on Social Work – “Dr. Tom Insel… talked about how Technology can help “Bend The Curve” with mental health treatment… providers and clients are working… to develop new programs…”
• Social Work Month 2017: What We’ve Been Up To – Pat Shelly – “first part of the [#MacroSW twitter] chat addressed what people were doing to celebrate Social Work Month… I stand for the mentally ill and elderly…”
• Social Worker Month: 10 Reasons for Social Workers to Stand Up – PsychCentral/own – “10 Inspiring Social Work Quotes… The things I love about being a social worker is the ability to be flexible and use your own creativity within the profession…”

NonProfit Career and Private Practice

• 45 LinkedIn Groups for Nonprofit Professionals to Network or Find Jobs – Wild Apricot – “general discussion on nonprofit topics… GuideStar — The Nonprofit Conversation… LinkedIn Nonprofit Solutions…”
• Creating a Community Among Therapists, Not Competition – Maelisa Hall – “important for those of us in the mental health profession to support one another…”
• How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit – Beth Kanter – “burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails… technology has blurred the lines between work time and time off… Turn Off Email Notifications… Use Scheduling Programs…”
• How to Turn Prospects into Clients – Selling the Couch interview w/Dori Gatter – “convince a potential client that you are a good fit for them… Commit to fast response callbacks… Use a virtual receptionist…”
• Is your Money Story Impacting Your Private Practice? – Private Practice Experts Kelly & Miranda – “running a business and setting a fee is about being clear about your financial needs… negative beliefs about money… People won’t want to pay me what I think I’m worth…”
• Pacing Yourself – Allison Puryear – “Return on Investment is not just about money; it’s about time, too… be strategic about the way you approach building… let your priorities be your priorities…”
• Planning The Interior Design And Décor For Your Private Practice –  Practice of the Practice/Tara Murphy – “Start with an inspiration piece and work from there… sit in your clients seats and see what they are looking at…”
• Red Flags for Outsourced Billing – Samara Stone – “Not being able to get in contact… no access to the billing system… unable to run any reports… how high your AR is…”
• What is Facebook live? – Ask Juliet and Clinton – “have something that you can talk about… talk to your audience… Facebook Live… going down the feed… Have your own questions ready…”
• What to Do If Your Blog Post is Stolen – Sharon Martin – “Every piece of original content that you post on your website is copyrighted… Take a photo of the stolen work…”

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