Behavioral Health Today

How many days each week are you working? Three five, maybe six. And how many hours are you putting in on average? 30, 40, or 50 hours a week? Would you say that you've achieved and are living the proverbial work-life balance you want? In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Joe Sanok on this new book Thursday is the New Friday, and shares with us how we can take charge of and create our work-life balance. Together Joe shares his new book and the evidence-based methodology and ways to doing the work that matters the most, how to be intentional to your self-care, customizing your situation to be more productive and balanced, and strategies to think to approach your business model that might free up more time to have a balanced life.

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We know that mental illness is a significant part of our lives as a nation, one in five adults are going to experience a mental health illness each year. Roughly 10% of people are going to experience a major depressive episode this year, and 20% of people will experience an anxiety disorder. In this episode Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Lauren Conaboy the Vice President of National Policy at Centerstone, a not-for-profit health system specializing in mental health and substance use disorder treatments. Through her advocacy, Lauren has directly influenced the passage of several bills including passing legislation to create the nation’s first ever three-digit dialing code for suicide prevention or mental health emergencies, as well as directly influencing several provisions of the 2018 support act, a bill designed to combat the nation’s opioid crisis.

If you are in crisis, please call the national suicide prevention lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). (+1 for military or veterans)

For more information about Centerstone call 1-877-HOPE (4673)-123 or by visiting: www.centerstone.org

The needs for telemental health have not been greater than right now, but problems exist with access to therapy as well as the equitable treatment of the employed therapists. The Difference is causing a shift in the teletherapy industry. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor sits with award-winning entrepreneur and Columbia University-trained psychotherapist Bea Arthur. She is the CEO of The Difference, a telemental health service created for accessible, affordable, and anonymous therapy, but with a different business model giving the working therapist equitable benefits and pay. Together, we talk about the importance of equity and access to therapy, issues of sustainability in private practice, and the industry shift The Difference seeks to provide for the future of universal mental health access.

For more information about The Difference, please visit: https://thedifference.co/

To request a demo of The Difference, please visit: https://thedifference.co/#modal

If you’re interested in learning more about working with The Difference, please visit: https://thedifference.co/careers/

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To learn more about Bea Arthur, please visit: https://www.beaarthurtherapy.com/

Students of color educated in high poverty urban schools have traditionally experienced low achievement. However, there are some high poverty schools serving large concentrations of students of color that achieve high levels of academic performance. What if we can identify these systems and structures in the high achievement schools that have been shown to produce a positive impact on academic performance by facilitating effective strategies in the classroom and within the school itself? To address this topic, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Dr. Shaana Berman about her dissertation, Overcoming a Legacy of Low Achievement: the systems and the structures in a high performing high poverty, California elementary school. 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. She has extensive training in early childhood and special education applied behavioral analysis, developmental assessment, curriculum, design, IEP, and training teachers to deliver effective instruction to diverse populations of students.

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

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

What if we could incorporate into our students' learning a wide range of skills, attitudes, and behaviors that could have a positive effect on their success in school? Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills can help children with enhancing and empowering their self-esteem, their interpersonal relationships, their health and wellness, and personal engagement throughout their life. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Noah Teitelbaum. Noah is the executive director of empowering education, a nonprofit that enables learning by contributing to the social and emotional wellness of students, families, and educators through a mindfulness-based bilingual, social and emotional learning curriculum. Together Graham and Noah discuss the five major competencies of SEL, the spectrum of instruction around these topics, the benefits of SEL to both students and teachers, and the successful implementation and connection to the classroom. As students look toward re-entry in the fall, SEL gets a chance to come in and be a really impactful component of their re-entry, and in some ways more important than initially returning right to the academic rigor.

For more information about SEL, please visit: https://casel.org/

For more information about Empowering Education, please visit: https://empoweringeducation.org/

For more information about Munchy and Jumpy, please visit: https://empoweringeducation.org/book/

This episode is the first in a series geared towards early career practitioners and those working with ECPs. In this series, we'll be talking with seasoned therapists and asking them what they've learned in their own private practices or group work. To kick off this ECP series, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Dr. Erin Elmore in our talk about her early career experiences working with children. Together they discuss theoretical approaches, the path that brought Erin into child therapy, the experiences in taking the leap into private practice, understanding the identity shift from student to professional, and the lessons learned with tips for new practitioners as they think about their own private practice in child therapy.

For more information about Dr. Erin Elmore, please visit: https://drerinelmore.com/

For information about Building Your Own Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals by Lynn Grodzki, please visit: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393709483

For information about The Paper Office for the Digital Age by Edward L. Zuckerman and Keely Kolmes, please visit: https://www.guilford.com/books/The-Paper-Office-for-the-Digital-Age/Zuckerman-Kolmes/9781462528004

For information about How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist, by Kenneth S. Pope and Melba J. T. Vasquez, please visit: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317071

Primary care physician colleagues often are the first healthcare professionals to uncover a mental health diagnosis due to their increased access to patients. That's why mental health screenings within the primary care settings are such a vital part of a patient's overall health. Speaking with Dr. Graham Taylor on the topic of mental health screenings within the primary care settings is Dr. Cecily Havert, a primary care physician. Together they discuss the mental health screening process, various types of screening tools, bridging the conversation from medical into the mental health piece, the impact of COVID-19 on primary care, and the importance of gaining the trust of your patients. The research shows that the early identification of mental illness not only increases the effectiveness of treatment, but it can also reduce long-term personal costs and larger-scale healthcare costs. Having, a healthy mental state is so critical and so pivotal to keeping physical health in check.

For information about mental health screening, please visit https://www.helpyourselfhelpothers.org

For more information about Dr. Cecily Havert and the Northern Virginia Family Practice, please visit www.nvafamilypractice.com

For more information about Dr. Cecily Havert on the Living Breathing Medicine Podcast or the Secondhand Podcast, please visit https://nvafamilypractice.com/nvfp-media/?filter_category=podcast

What if you could learn from dynamic videos with highly talented actors portraying patients with various diagnostic presentations to include a therapist, interacting with them? These visual guideposts and demonstrations could really accelerate, enhance, and increase the enjoyment of your learning process and a better understanding the mental health diagnoses that we address every day. In this episode Dr. Graham Taylor talks with Andrew Rubin and Dr. David Paltin from Symptom Media, an online mental health continuing education course collection and film library of over 600 videos available by subscription. Together they discuss bringing together mental health professionals and filmmakers together to create interesting clinical videos, how they’re being used, and the philosophies behind the portrayal of human-focused, de-stigmatizing mental health education.

For more information about Symptom Media, please visit: https://symptommedia.com/

Access a free trial by visiting: https://symptommedia.com/free-trial/

The conclusion of this two-part episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Mark Graham, LCSW, and Alethea Glave, LCSW. Together they take you behind the therapist door and show the inner workings of CBC’s innovative Pathway Home™Program, a transition program for individuals with serious mental illness from behavioral health settings back into the community. They discuss the challenges of rehospitalization, the importance of empowering their clients to advocate for themselves, and we share stories of successful transitions and how the team supports each other. The clients of the Pathway Home™ teaches us that recovery is possible, and people can go on and have very functioning lives.

For more information about Pathway Home™, please visit: https://cbcare.org/innovative-programs/pathway-home/

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/