May 2024’s MHA YouTube channel video releases explored child ADHD and parenting, forming healthy habits, and the importance of addiction training.
- Fireside: Child ADHD and Parenting (watch video). Dr. Justin Coulson discussed child ADHD with a focus on how therapists and parents can support neurodiverse children. Topics covered included prevalence and common misconceptions about ADHD, embracing and affirming neurodiversity, non-pharmacological interventions for managing symptoms, parental involvement, multidisciplinary collaboration, supportive technology, and much more. More on parenting? MHA’s 27-hour Micro-Credential, Evidence-based Parenting: Raising Children to Thrive, covers what’s at the heart of good parenting, and how therapists can help parents foster family wellbeing and raise children to thrive.
- Forming Healthy Habits: Practical Preparation (watch video). Dr. Justin Coulson offers insights into the creation of healthy habits and the elimination of maladaptive ones, and cuts to the pointy end of the issue – the alignment of values and goals. Extracted from the MHA course, Healthy and Harmful Habits: Practical Solutions for Professionals and Clients.
- Why Addiction Training is Essential for All Mental Health Professionals (watch video). Addiction does not discriminate and can affect individuals across demographic categories and over the course of the lifespan. Whether you work in a community agency, school, college/university, hospital, faith-based organisation, or private practice, it is imperative that you can assess for and respond effectively to clients who use drugs of abuse and/or engage in addictive behaviours. In this video, we explore some of the contexts where mental health professionals may encounter addiction. Read the article version of this video here.
- Q&A: Adjusting Addictions Treatment for Complex Disabilities (watch video). Dr. Amanda Giordano explores adjustment approaches for clients working with complex disabilities and dependencies, with a strong focus on compassionate granularity in tailoring treatments. Extracted from the MHA Fireside series interview, Working with Addictions.
- Q&A: Addictions Training For All Mental Health Professionals (watch video). Dr. Amanda Giordano explains her conviction that all mental health practitioners should be trained in substance use disorders prevention and treatment – or should at the very least have a working understanding of addiction that accompanies their practice. Prevalence rates, community & social impacts, and populations are touched upon as arguments for better SUD training within the mental health care cohort. Extracted from the MHA Fireside series interview, Working with Addictions.
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