Behavioral Health Today

Part 1: Inside the Pathway Home™ Program with Mark Graham and Alethea Glave – Episode 77

Today’s episode is part of our clinicians’ series, where we take you behind the therapist door to give you an insight into what happens within the therapeutic relationship. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Mark Graham, LCSW, and Alethea Glave, LCSW, from CBC’s innovative Pathway Home™ Program, an evidence-based critical time intervention program that transitions individuals with serious mental illness from intensive behavioral health settings back into the community. On this episode we discuss the culture of Pathway Home™ Program and the many ways they address the needs of their clients, some of the unique challenges addressing the needs of clients of color and ways their team is building grater self-awareness to understand what they’re bringing into their interactions with their clients. Join us again Thursday for the second part and conclusion of this show.

For more information about Pathway Home™, please visit: https://cbcare.org/innovative-programs/pathway-home/
For more information about Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC), please visit: https://cbcare.org/

The World’s Most Comprehensive Mental Health eLearning Platform with Dr. Whitley Lassen – Episode 76

Psych Hub is the world’s most comprehensive online platform for mental health, substance use and suicide prevention education. In this episode Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Dr. Whitley Lassen. Whitley is the clinical director at Psych Hub, where she is responsible for the development and production of their content and e-learning solutions. Together they examine all that Psych Hub has to offer including their engaging learning hub, YouTube channel, resources for the general public, mental health communication guide, and other various initiatives. Psych Hub’s mission is the teach mental health providers the most effective skills possible to be better equipped to treat their clients and focus on educating the public to create more mental health literacy to decreasing stigma so that people can feel comfortable getting the help.

 

For more information about Psych Hub, please visit: https://psychhub.com/

For more information about Psych Hub’s YouTube channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_zQoiPtBDvsThGroagm3ww

For more information about The Communication Guide, please visit: https://psychhub.com/initiatives/psych-hub-communication-guide/

 

Connect with Psych Hub through social media:

Facebook: Psych Hub

Twitter: @psychhub

Instagram: @psychhubeducation

LinkedIn: Psych Hub

Cultural Competence and School System Challenges with Dr. Shaana Berman – Episode 75

Cultural competence means that we first understand a sense of who we are and what we bring so that we can have a clear understanding of any bias that could impact a valid assessment of a child’s true potential. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Dr. Shaana Berman about cultural competence and challenges within the school system. Shaana is a board-certified Behavior Analyst with over 20 years of experience, working directly with children who have autism and other conditions that impact behavior and learning. Together, Graham and Shaana discuss the challenges experienced with regards to race and socioeconomic status, the protections for parents and for students with special needs, the importance of the assessment process, recognition of the educational achievement gap, and finally a positive example of schools with high levels of performance and some of the ways they achieved success for each student. It starts with knowing yourself. We're setting the framework from which they will work for the rest of their lives and see themselves in terms of their own self meaning.

For more information about Dr. Shaana Berman, please visit: https://metamindmagic.com

Connect with Dr. Shaana Berman on Facebook, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/doctorshaana/

Surfacing Superpowers within ADHD with Dr. Ned Hallowell & Dr. Lloyd Sederer – Episode 74

ADHD is not a disorder entirely because it can be associated with success at the highest levels. In his latest book, ADHD 2.0, Dr. Ned Hallowell not only reframes the ADHD condition, he renames the condition as VAST, for Variable Attention Stimulus Trait. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Dr. Ned Hallowell and Dr. Lloyd Sederer about the condition known as ADHD. Together they discuss the importance of relationships, treatment options, education, and the stigma of this condition. We can reframe ADHD as Variable Attention Stimulus Trait (VAST) and by reframing this condition from a deficit disorder to VAST, it gives families and parents hope that these are problems that can be solved, and often really responsive to treatment, that can ignite a child's life in the best of ways.

 

For more information about the ADHD condition, please visit:

ADDitude Magazine: https://www.additudemag.com

CHADD Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, please visit: https://chadd.org

ADDA Attention Deficite Disorder Association, please visit: https://add.org

For more information about Dr. Hallowell and the Hollowell ADHD Centers please visit: https://drhallowell.com

For more information about Dr. Ned Hallowell’s new book on ADHD, ADHD 2.0, please visit: https://drhallowell.com/read/books-by-ned/

Follow Dr. Ned Hallowell on TikTok @drhallowell: https://www.tiktok.com/@drhallowell?lang=en

For more information about Dr. Lloyd Sederer, visit: https://www.askdrlloyd.com/

For more information about the novel Ink-Stained for Life, visit: https://www.askdrlloyd.com/ink-stained-for-life

 

Money Martyrdom and Mental Health with Joe Sanok – Episode 73

It’s okay for clinicians to charge and make money. Many clinicians have a real struggle and feel conflicted about their healing art and the collection of money. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Joe Sanok, speaker, mental health counselor, business consultant, podcaster, and creator behind the Practice of the Practice Podcast. Together they discuss the psychology of money, tips to restructuring your private practice business, and creative ways clinicians can evaluate their skills to appropriately value their services. Money magnifies what’s already there, so if you’re a person who wants to help the world, that’s going to magnify those areas. That impact starts with the clinician knowing their worth.

 

For more information about Practice of the Practice, please visit: https://www.practiceofthepractice.com/

if you're interested in talking with Practice of the Practice or joining their Next Level Practice Community, please visit: http://www.practiceofthepractice.com/apply

For more information about Joe Sanok’s new book Thursday is the New Friday, please visit: http://thursdayisthenewfriday.com

Part 2: Children's Mental Health Challenges with Jerry Barone – Episode 72

This episode resumes the conversation with Dr. Graham Taylor and Jerry Barone of Effective School Solutions (ESS). They discuss other ESS programs including, virtual therapeutic support, crisis assessment, and re-entry solutions, mental health vision, planning the support, and their successes.  Last year through February, this year, Effective School Solutions had 89% of students fully engaged in virtual services, 16% increase in GPA, absences were down 35%, disciplinary incidents were reduced by 38% and the retention of their students in the districts was around 99%. As we look toward the re-entry challenges back into the classroom for Fall 2021, our goal should be to provide our students, teachers, and parents with tools to self-regulate and as a result, many kids will be just fine.

 

For more information about Effective School Solutions, please visit: https://www.effectiveschoolsolutions.com/

Read articles on Thought Leadership, please visit:

https://www.effectiveschoolsolutions.com/thought-leadership

Part 1: Children's Mental Health Challenges with Jerry Barone – Episode 71

Among students ages 12 to 17, Abnormal Psychology found a 52% increase in depression, 71% increase in reports of serious psychological distress. And sadly, there's been a 47% increase in students who had suicidal thoughts. Some significant mental health challenges are growing in our communities that impact our children. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Jerry Barone, the chief clinical officer at Effective School Solutions, K-12 whole school mental health program that incorporates mental health best practices into the traditional school day. Together they explore ESS’s multi-tiered system of support, services provided, and process of student assessment. Effective School Solutions seeks to equip both teachers and students with learnable skills to be self-empowered, self-regulating, and to be mindful of themselves.

 

For more information about Effective School Solutions, please visit: https://www.effectiveschoolsolutions.com/

Read articles on Thought Leadership, please visit:

https://www.effectiveschoolsolutions.com/thought-leadership

Clinicians Series: Treating Sex Addiction - Episode 70

This episode is part of our clinician series, we're going to be taking you behind the proverbial therapy door, giving you a more, in-depth look at compulsive sexual behavior disorder and what patients experience. Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Dr. Stefanie Carnes. Stefanie is the president of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals and a senior fellow for Meadows Behavioral Healthcare. In their time together they discuss the stigma and misunderstanding of sex addiction, trends in trauma history and its impacts with healthy intimacy, and the importance of group and family therapy in the healing process. There is hope in this treatment and people come out the other end to experience healthy sexual relationships, both for themselves and with their partner.

 

For more information about International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals, please visit: https://iitap.com

For more information about Sex Help and information about sex addiction, please visit: https://sexhelp.com

For more information about books on sex addiction, please visit Gentle Path at the Meadows at https://www.gentlepathmeadows.com/bookstore/books/

For residential treatment or more information about Meadows Behavioral Health, please visit: https://www.themeadows.com

Transforming Men’s Wellness with Owen Marcus & Lucas Krump - Episode 69

Most men struggling to find a foothold in really knowing what a real man is and what a real man does. EVRYMAN has a men's wellness organization whose focus is to help men transform their lives by harnessing the power of their emotions and deepening their connection within themselves and with other men. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Owen Marcus and Lucas Krump from EVRYMAN about their men’s support group and the challenges for men’s emotional integrity. Together they discuss the meaning of masculinity, how our culture plays a part in men’s wellness, and the roadblocks men experience in being introspective with each other. The goal of EVRYMAN is to help men express their needs without feeling overwhelmed, discover what excites them, and help men create a plan and take action steps towards those areas that are important to them. We want to make a difference and sometimes not having an awareness of ourselves can keep us small. EVRYMAN is helping people reach their potential.

 

For more information about EVRYMAN please visit: https://evryman.com/

Learn more about EVRYMAN resources, please visit: https://evryman.com/resources/

If you are a therapist and think your clients could benefit from EVRYMAN, please visit: https://evryman.com/professional/

Birthday Special: Fighting Racism with Inner Work with Brandon J. Johnson M.H.S. – Episode 68

In celebration of our first birthday, we’re re-releasing one of our favorite episodes from the past year. Compassion is unequivocally what we need to see for individuals to understand where some of their racist beliefs are and how we can begin to make impactful change. In this episode, Brandon J. Johnson, M.H.S talks with Dr. Graham Taylor about how introspection and empathy are the cornerstones of managing our racism. if we can just make room for the person's experiences, we might find ourselves expanding into a greater shared appreciation for and understanding of what's going on around us and in the lives around us. It's about understanding and loving each other more deeply. We want to move to a point that we're empathetic enough, that when we see it, we feel moved to address it.

 

 If you are interested in learning more about Black Mental Wellness Lounge, visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCebATdInxniQlf12aJtmDpA

Visit the Black Mental Health Alliance at: https://blackmentalhealth.com/

Visit PsychHub to take action against racism at: https://psychhub.com/taking-action-against-racism/

Birthday Special: When Evidence-Based Treatments Don’t Work with Dr. Susan Litton – Episode 67

In celebration of our first birthday, we’re releasing the second of two new episodes this week. This episode is part of our Clinicians’ Series, where we take a deeper dive into therapeutic processes. Dr. Susan Litton, CEO of PsyBooks and Clinical Psychologist, returns in a discussion with Dr. Graham Taylor about the limits of evidence-based practices and the art that goes into combining the diverse forms of psychotherapies. Evidence-based approaches run the risk of not attending to patient’s ability to being the agents of their change and becoming their own self-healers. In this discussion, we ask clinicians to trust they have enough information and understanding of your client, and to have done their own inner-work to select the approach for the presenting problems and not get stuck within the proverbial evidence-based box.

 

For more information about Dr. Susan Litton and PSYBooks, please visit: https://www.psybooks.com/

Birthday Special: Trauma Stewardship with Lidia Michel, Psy.D. – Episode 66

In celebration of our first birthday, we’re re-releasing one of our favorite episodes from the past year. We entered the field with fire and that trauma stewardship is about tending to the coals. In this episode, Lidia Michel, Psy.D. joins Dr. Graham Taylor in a discussion on trauma stewardship and how to care for those that care for others. Lidia speaks on the guideposts of stewardship: identifying your working role model, minimizing to make time for rest, hypervigilance and awareness of the speed of your work, and recognizing diminished creativity in your work, and ways to add self-care to your routine to be effective in our work. Self-care is critical and essential to the longevity, within our careers and for the services that we want to provide and for us to be effective in our work.

 

For more information about Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk, visit: https://traumastewardship.com/inside-the-book/

For more information about The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, visit: https://brenebrown.com/books-audio/

For more information on the Positive Psychology Center, visit: https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/

Birthday Special: Therapy Reimagined with Katie Vernoy and Curt Widhalm - Episode 65

In celebration of our first birthday, we’re releasing the first of two new episodes this week. In this episode, Katie Vernoy, LMFT, and Curt Widhalm, LMFT, the founders of Therapy Re-imagined Conferences, and hosts of the Modern Therapist Survival Guide Podcasts, join Dr. Graham Taylor in encouraging clinicians to reimagine therapy and therapist education. Their conferences and podcast are embracing aspects of making continuing education more active, teaching therapists how to find their authenticity, ways to bring their whole selves into their practice, and reconnecting to the values of what brought you into being a therapist.

 

For more information about Therapy Reimagined Conference 2021, please visit: https://therapyreimaginedconference.com

For more information about the Modern Therapist Survival Guide Podcast, please visit: http://mtsgpodcast.com/

For more information about the Therapy Reimagined Private Facebook Group, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/therapyreimagined

For more information about Therapy Reimagined, consultation, workshops, resources, and more, please visit: https://therapyreimagined.com

Birthday Special: The Psychology of Pandemics with Dr. Steven Taylor – Episode 64

In celebration of our first birthday, we’re re-releasing one of our favorite episodes from the past year. Author of The Psychology of Pandemics, Dr. Steven Taylor joins Dr. Graham Taylor in a discussion about the current and past pandemics. Dr. Steven Taylor outlines the patterns that occur from a global pandemic, identifies the warning signs of stress, and the components of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for symptoms that linger past the COVID-19 Pandemic. Together they identify the issues occurring and possible solutions toward better awareness and develop resilience that we can get through this. Let’s identify the things we can control, seize those, and the things that are out of our control will likely go much better for us.

For more information about the impacts of COVID-19 visit: https://coronaphobia.org

Free use self-assessment test to identify the warning signs of stress caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, visit: https://coronaphobia.org/list/

Trauma-Informed Work with Guy Macpherson Ph.D. - Episode 63

Trauma is a very unique aspect of our field, where we get to not necessarily bring people up out of their trauma but to join them in it. And as we do, we watch them find this path that's uniquely their own and they get to walk us through their path of healing. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Dr. Guy Macpherson, clinical psychologist, and creator of the Trauma Therapist Project and the host of Trauma Therapist Podcast. Together they talk about trauma-informed work, opportunities for self-care within ourselves and the community, the importance of our self-exploration and authenticity within the therapeutic relationship, and finally the value of being able to honor someone's trauma process.

 

If you’re working with people who have been impacted by trauma, working in this area alone is very challenging. The Trauma Therapist Project is creating a community and safe space for trauma therapists to care for each other, share their experiences, and encourage each other.

 

For more information about Trauma Therapist 2.0, please visit:

http://traumatherapist2.com

 

For more information on the Trauma Therapist Podcast, please visit:

https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/podcasts/

 

For more information about The Inner Work eBook, please visit: https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/downloads/the-inner-work-ebook/