From the Clinician
Clinical approaches to mental health and suicide prevention span a wide range of disciplines. Practicing physicians, therapists, and support teams offer us insights into some of the biological factors and mechanisms involved in their approaches to treatment and prevention.
If you are a doctor, therapist, case manager or other provider with insights from your work into biological influences on mental wellness, we would love to hear from you!
A Clinician asks… ‘Could Sleep Help End the Youth Mental Health Crisis?’
From the Clinician As her previous contribution showed, Dr. Kathleen Mackenzie’s blended insights as a clinician with lived experience provide important perspective. In a recent piece in Psychology Today, Dr. Mackenzie posed the question, Could Sleep Help End the Youth Mental Health Crisis? and set forth her arguments for targeting improved sleep for our youth. In this article […]
We Know So Much More Now…
From the Clinician AND From the Lived Experience Last spring we posted about mind-body insights and tools for stress regulation that we learned from Dr. Kathleen Mackenzie at the Active Minds conference, and recently we had a chance to catch up with her directly. Dr. Mackenzie’s insights are especially powerful since they stem from a […]
A Case Study in the Importance of Integrative Care to Mental and Physical Health and Wellbeing
By Susan Parmelee, LCSW As social workers we have a guiding tenet: “Start where the client is.” In practical terms, this means that if my client is not housed, does not have access to food, or is physically ailing, there is no chance of working on higher level needs through mental health therapy. Addressing the […]
A Co-Response Model That Works: An Interview with Michelle Muething, Executive Director of the Hope Center, on Clinicians and Law Enforcement Responding to Mental Health Crises – Part II
By Fred Bernard, MA In Co-Response, Part I Michelle Muething of the Hope Center discussed the center’s approach to providing crisis services alongside a local police response. In Part II, JKBF talks with Michelle about the opportunities of this approach for other communities, and why she believes pairing, not replacing, is important. JKBF: Are there any high-profile […]
Mental Health and Physical Health – We Need to Advocate for Integrative Care Models
By Susan Parmelee, LCSW As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in mental health services for youth ages 12-25 years old, I spend a lot of time talking to youth and colleagues about mental health and how we can prevent suicide. Suicide remains one of the most difficult challenges in our work due to the […]
A Co-Response Model That Works: An Interview with Michelle Muething, Executive Director of the Hope Center, on Clinicians and Law Enforcement Responding to Mental Health Crises
By Fred Bernard, MA One of the many issues raised in the outcry following the killing of George Floyd has been that the social response to mental health crises, including suicidal ideation and behavior, is often to default to calling the police. In a popular segment on the Floyd protests from Last Week Tonight with […]