Behavioral Health Today

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/

Part 2: Rethinking Your Private Practice with Joe Sanok – Episode 62

If you don't know the best use of your time and your money, where you're getting the biggest ROI, then you are missing out in so many different ways. In this second episode, we resume our discussion with Joe Sanok, the creator of Practice of the Practice, about ways to think about money and to grow that wealth in a way that can be beneficial to ourselves our time. Together they talk about opportunities for veteran practitioners, how to rethink the usage of our time and energy, and a message to practitioners about self-care and an encouragement to enter the public space more aggressively, actively guiding the conversation as a well-educated person that has the ethics behind it. Our message is bigger than what our clients hear. Our message is bigger than our own office.

 

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

 

If you are just getting started in your private practice, please visit: https://practiceofthepractice.lpages.co/next-level-practice-invite/

 

Starting a Private Practice? Get this 28-step Checklist, please visit: https://practiceofthepractice.lpages.co/28-step-checklist-split-test/

 

Apply for Practice of the Practice consultation, please visit: https://practiceofthepractice.lpages.co/pop-apply-page/

 

For more information about Thursday is the New Friday book, please visit: https://www.amazon.com/Thursday-New-Friday-Smarter-Matters/dp/1400225981

Part 1: Rethinking Your Private Practice with Joe Sanok - Episode 61

Mental health is such a wonderful field to be involved in, but in our schooling, we are not typically taught about the business side of running a private practice. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Joe Sanok, the creator behind the practice of the practice. Joe is a speaker, a mental health counselor business consultant, and a podcaster. In 2012, Joe started the practice of the practice podcast and it's become the number one podcast for counselors in private practice, helping private practice clinicians find innovative ways to start and to grow and scale the private practice. Together they walk through the offerings of Practice of the Practice and how practitioners in the various stages of their career can rethink their private practice and align their work in unique ways that are successful and fulfilling.

 

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

 

If you are just getting started in your private practice, please visit: https://practiceofthepractice.lpages.co/next-level-practice-invite/

 

Starting a Private Practice? Get this 28-step Checklist, please visit: https://practiceofthepractice.lpages.co/28-step-checklist-split-test/

 

Apply for Practice of the Practice consultation, please visit: https://practiceofthepractice.lpages.co/pop-apply-page/

 

For more information about Thursday is the New Friday book, please visit: https://www.amazon.com/Thursday-New-Friday-Smarter-Matters/dp/1400225981

EHRs and You with Dr. Susan Litton - Episode 60

There are a lot of aspects to our practice: HIPAA compliance, working with insurance panels, collecting copays, notifications of sessions coming up, note-taking, and more. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Susan Litton, CEO of PSYBooks. Susan shares her story going from Clinical Psychologist to Web Developer and Designer a passion that gave her unique skills to help create a better EHR and Portal. She explains the history behind EHRs and some of the challenges that practitioners experience. And a look behind the PSYBooks program and some of the convenient tools behind their program to help streamline management and help practitioners.

 

 

For more information about PSYBooks, please visit: https://www.psybooks.com/

 

Read more about EHRs at https://www.psybooks.com/why-do-people-hate-ehrs/

Read more about the Open Notes Rule at https://www.psybooks.com/does-open-notes-apply-to-me/

Read more about PSYBooks integration at https://www.psybooks.com/more-than-a-three-room-house/

Read more about the various PSYBooks programs at https://www.psybooks.com/why-get-an-integrated-product/

Functional Contextual Approaches to Behavioral Health with Kristen Rollman, BCBA - Episode 59

The field of behavior analysis continues to uncover new and improved knowledge about behavior - for the purposes of description, prediction, and control - to emphasize the functional relationships between behavior and one's environment. In this episode Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Kristen Rollman, BCBA about the functional contextual approaches to behavior analysis, its importance within the assessment process, and how this approach can help understand cultural competency. By asking these types of questions you're really able to connect more with the families, the clients, and the programming that you're implementing to ensure it is the best fit for that individual. 

 

For more information about Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, please visit: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781626259133/ 

For more information about Relational Frame Theory and Contextual Behavioral Science, please visit: https://contextualscience.org/ 

Part 2: Effective Leadership with Head Coach Joshua Taylor - Episode 58

In part 1 we were able to establish a foundation of what effective leadership is and some of the meaningful ways we define the role of being a leader. There are great opportunities for us to find ways to lead in our lives. In part 2, Dr. Graham Taylor is again joined by Joshua Taylor, Head Coach of the University of Missouri Women’s Volleyball Program. We'll resume our conversation today with a free association naming exercise that Dr. Taylor poses to Josh to think about those who have been leaders and mentors in our lives that have left an indelible mark. 

For resources from our topic of effective leadership:

Harvard Business Review 10 Must Reads on Leadership by Peter F. Drucker, please visit: https://store.hbr.org/product/hbr-s-10-must-reads-on-leadership-with-featured-article-what-makes-an-effective-executive-by-peter-f-drucker/12546

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, please visit:
https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/

Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden, please visit: https://mhebooklibrary.com/doi/book/10.1036/0071453393

Part 1: Effective Leadership with Head Coach Joshua Taylor - Episode 57

 In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Joshua Taylor, Head Coach of the University of Missouri Women’s Volleyball Program. Together they discuss the characteristics of being an effective leader, the value of being a good teammate, modeling yourself as a leader, living a disciplined life determined to do right things, gratitude and the importance of empathy and trust. These strategies, these ways of thinking, attitudes, behaviors, relational qualities, these are generalizable to all parts of our lives.

An effective leader earns the right to lead through individual connections and building trust within their group. 'Ubuntu' is a term that roughly translates to the concept 'I am, because we are'. In other words, Me is a result of We. And it's a way of living that some might see as the essence of being human, a person becomes a person through other people.

 

For resources from our topic of effective leadership

Harvard Business Review 10 Must Reads on Leadership by Peter F. Drucker, please visit: https://store.hbr.org/product/hbr-s-10-must-reads-on-leadership-with-featured-article-what-makes-an-effective-executive-by-peter-f-drucker/12546

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, please visit:
https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/

Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden, please visit: https://mhebooklibrary.com/doi/book/10.1036/0071453393