How We as Practitioners Can Foster Stigma

• By: Sa'uda K. Dunlap, LCSW Lisa Furst, LMSW, MPH John Orr, MA, LMHC Vibrant Emotional Health
• July 14th, 2022
• implicit bias, mental health practitioners, mental health stigma, stereotypes, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue, therapeutic relationships
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Practitioners, despite our best intentions, may unconsciously foster stigma by downplaying or not recognizing the ways in which power dynamics, implicit bias, stereotypes, and lack of cultural humility can all build barriers to care. To illustrate the stigmatizing potential of a...

The Critical Role of Relationships in Integrated Health Care Delivery

• By: Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW S. Lala Straussner, PhD, LCSW New York University Silver School of Social Work
• October 1st, 2019
• behavioral health, care coordination, cultural humility, integrated care, interdisciplinary teams, person-centered care, social work, therapeutic relationships
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Integrated care models are now increasingly being adopted across all medical settings, including behavioral health. Their potential to help health care systems attain the triple aim of improving service quality, promoting population health and reducing costs has led policy makers to incentivize...

Supervision: Paying Attention to the Soul, Not the Technique

• By: Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD Four Winds Hospital
• April 1st, 2016
• childhood experiences, emotional regulation, mental health, personal growth, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapeutic relationships, trauma
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Although I’ve never been a psychoanalyst, I did spend a year in analysis and took classes at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute. I left at the end of a year because being in practice at that time I came to realize that my own style of work was much more realistic, confrontational and time...