February 2024’s MHA YouTube channel video releases explored addictions, social stigma, mental’s mental health, and emotional freedom techniques.
- Fireside: Working with Addictions (watch video). Dr. Amanda Giordano explores the ins and outs of working with clients with behavioural addictions and/or substance use disorders. Topics covered include recent advances in clinical practice, the effect of societal factors and family dynamics in addictive behaviours, addressing the impact of trauma and dual diagnosis, how to tailor treatment for specific client populations, and much more. For a transcript version, click here.
- Q&A: Cannabinoid Use – Overcoming Social Stigma (watch video). Dr. Jamie Rickcord explores the thorny issue of overcoming the social stigma and misunderstandings around cannabinoid use, as well as sharing his thoughts on recreational cannabis use and its implications on treatment research. Extracted from the MHA course, Personal Synthesis and the ECS: A Transdiagnostic Mechanism for How Trauma Breaks Down Self.
- Q&A: Men’s Mental Health – Strategies to Reduce Stigma in Seeking Help (watch video). Rachel Tomlinson explores strategies for reducing the stigma surrounding men seeking help, especially for mental health matters. Several resources and avenues of exploration are proposed as additional resources and food for thought. Extracted from the MHA course, Working with Toxic Masculinity in Male Clients.
- Emotional Freedom Techniques: Tapping for Anxiety Relief (watch video). Dr. Peta Stapleton explores the tenets of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which is also known as “tapping”. She defines EFT as a stress reduction technique which can improve an ever-broadening range of conditions through tapping on eight basic acupuncture points, and goes over the “basic recipe” for tapping – particularly in its application to anxiety relief. Extracted from the MHA course, Clinical Applications of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Anxiety.
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