Behavioral Health Today

Dr. Kevin Bowman and Dr. Graham Taylor discuss the demand for student mental health services, the response from college universities, and a list of services offered to students to enhance their learning and reach their full potential. Most young students entering college for the first time are at a formative stage in life where several developmental tasks can occur. As a result, and of concern, college campuses are seeing an increase in severity of depression, suicidal ideation, and anxiety in their students.

In this episode, Stephanie Taylor, Ed.S, NCSP, Clinical Director for Psychoeducational services at PresenceLearning, joins Dr. Graham Taylor to talk about the successes of teletherapy in students’ lives. Psychoeducational services in a telehealth setting allow for better student access, making meaningful connections, present an engaging student environment, and bring awareness to mental health components that oftentimes do not get addressed in our education system. Presence Learning teletherapy software provides a need for psychology services for students nationwide.

To learn more about Presence Learning visit: https://www.presencelearning.com/

For more information on teletherapy and telemental Health visit: https://www.apa.org/practice/guidelines/telepsychology

Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Allison Franklin, the Director of the CARES program at the SAFE Alliance. She is a nationally recognized survivor leader and subject matter expert on sex trafficking. In this episode, Allison shares her own story of survival and an understanding of the narratives of the men and women trapped in this trafficking experience. Together Allison and Graham identify the warning signs and symptoms for early detection and the misconceptions within sex trafficking. Seeking help can be difficult, but programs like the SAFE Alliance are available to intersect the complex needs of victims and offer hope to break the cycle they are in.

For more information about Human Trafficking resources visit:

• SAFE Alliance: https://www.safeaustin.org/

In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Dr. Kristen Wilkinson about the 'Sleeper Effect', its effects, and developing an understanding to be able to identify it early. Children experience a myriad of psychological effects when families divorce or separate, but there is a phenomenon many 'daughters of divorce' experience that causes depression, anxiety, lack of trust, and intimacy problems to occur later in life. These issues can be tied back to the trauma experience(s) from their adolescence, defined as “The Sleeper Effect”. 

If you are a daughter of divorce and would like to share your story, Dr. Kristen Wilkinson is collecting stories to give women an opportunity. To reflect on their experiences as daughters of divorce, to think about their unsuccessful, intimate relationships, their roller coaster of mental health issues.

Please contribute by email: [email protected] or by visiting: https://www.kristenwilkinsonpsyd.com/about and click The Sleeper Effect in the navigation.

In this episode, Dr. John Rekart joins Behavioral Health Today for a foundational discussion around how data can help us respond to mental health issues. Data management and collection of information cab be a helpful process for informing and shaping our understanding of mental health issues. Dr. Rekart talks about how to organize treatment approaches with the use of data and technology to create a discussion or to tell a story. 

For more information about Cerner Technologies visit: https://www.cerner.com/

For COVID-19 information from Cerner and PsychHub visit: https://psychhub.com/covid-19/

Aaron Gani, CEO of BehaVR, joins Dr. Graham Taylor to discuss virtual reality in behavioral health. BehaVR is a digital medicine company that specializes in virtual experiences to improve mental health. BehaVR has created a multi-session crafted experience to help people connect their mind and the physiological response.  VR offers improved retention, engagement, and a unique approach to therapy, providing clinicians the ability to craft an experience that helps people develop an understanding of their disorder earlier.

In this episode Joshua and Nikki Taylor, both collegiate and professional athletes, speak with Dr. Graham Taylor on the psychology of being an athlete and the mindset of self-motivation, the perspective of failure, developing emotional muscle, and self-awareness. They talk about the sports psychology of an athlete’s mind, their unique thinking process and training one’s self to think and emotionally respond purposefully to events in their lives.

Dr. Erin Elmore joins Dr. Graham Taylor to discuss the trend among teens of juuling, vaping, and e-cigarettes. They discuss ways to talk to teenagers about the dangers of juuling and vaping. Both juuling, the smoking of nicotine, or vaping of THC or CBD, the main components of marijuana, are newer forms of drug use. Vaping has become popular amongst older teens and young adults and as parents, teachers, and mental health providers should be aware of the risks, addictions, and ways to talk about this with teens and help them make informed decisions.

Access to mental health services are at all-time highs and the need for mental health care is growing. Russ Glass, CEO of Ginger, joins Behavioral Health Today to discuss telemental health and how they are connecting the demand for mental health access with therapists who can help. Ginger offers mental health services 24/7 and integrates unique data driven insights to offer collaborative care of both the therapist and a behavioral health coach to best fit your personalized needs. This approach has helped people get healthy far faster and with less frequency to relapse into higher levels of care.

 For more information about Ginger and their telemental services, visit www.ginger.io. Free resources to help promote good mental health can be found at www.ginger.io/roots

In this episode of BHT, Kathleen Stengel, BCBA and CEO of NeurAbilites joins Dr. Graham Taylor in a discussion about the growing field of Behavior Analysis. Together they talk about the importance of observation and how objective measuring can help inform treatment; allowing people to better reach their potential. Kathleen shares her own experience as a BCBA and her work with people with autism.

Learn more about NeurAbilites Healthcare at https://neurabilities.com/

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