Behavioral Health Today

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/

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

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 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/

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

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

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/

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/ 

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:

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

 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:

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