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Season 3 of Mental Horizons Podcast: How Organizations Persevere During COVID-19 Crisis.
This is the first episode of season 3 of Mental Horizons Podcast. In this episode, we learn how residential therapeutic communities may be some of the safest, most effective places for mental health recovery during this fearful time of the COVID-19 crisis and civil...
Announcing our booklet, A Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery
We're excited to announce that we will be publishing a booklet titled, A Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery. We have been working on this guide for over a year and are now in the final stages of artwork and design. The exact date of availability is unknown, but it...
All six episodes in one place: Mental Horizons and the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 Pandemic struck the U.S. several weeks ago, our thoughts went immediately to the people most vulnerable to such a crisis: those already challenged by mental and physical illnesses. We then reached out to several leaders in the mental health field and...
S2EP15: Transform Zoom Fatigue and Energize Your Community with this Assessment Tool
Almost over night, most of us have joined both pop-up and professional online communities during this COVID-19 global pandemic. We thrive in community, because humans are meant to live and work in close relationship with others. But what happens when these virtual...
S2EP14: COVID-19 and Trauma Resilience Strategies with Katie Mansfield
This special episode is part of our Mental Horizons podcast series responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is impacting the world and, more specifically, the mental health field. Stephanie spoke with Katie Mansfield about trauma resilience in the face of...
S2E13: How To Deliver Mental Health Support Remotely with Brad Richards
Brad Richards, psychiatric interventionist, returns to the podcast to share tips around how therapists and medical professionals can best deliver support through online and remote means. In this time of crisis, tele-health is scaling up rapidly, breaking down barriers...
S2E12: Life After COVID-19: What Organizations Need to Do Next
Virgil is joined on the podcast by Brian Hansen, executive director of Spring Lake Ranch. Brian is uniquely qualified to comment on what it takes for organizations and individuals to recover from a crisis or disaster. In this episode, he shared that while...
S2E11: Social Connectedness During a Global Crisis with Ross Ellenhorn, PhD
In a second conversation in this special series about COVID-19 and how it is impacting the mental health treatment field, Virgil spoke with Ross Ellenhorn, PhD, founder of Ellenhorn, a program based in Boston, NYC, and North Carolina. Their conversation opens with...
S2E10: COVID-19 and Residential Treatment Programs – a brief, special episode with Eric Levine, EdD
Virgil spoke with Eric Levine, EdD, Executive Director of CooperRiis Healing Community in North Carolina, about how residential treatment programs can best respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this short, special episode Eric talks about the importance of leaders...