The Northeast and Caribbean MHTTC is offering a self-paced, online, three-part HealtheKnowledge course, Wellness Matters: Self-Care for Mental Health Providers. We know that mental health care professionals commit time and energy to the care of others everyday, yet it can be difficult to find the time and energy to address their own self-care. This course offers self-care strategies and wellness frameworks, along with practices to increase resilience and flourish in one's personal and professional life. Resources are provided along with many opportunities for self-reflection. This course consists of 3 one-hour modules with interactive exercises and assessments focusing on: Self-Care Strategies to Survive and Thrive: Why does it matter? Wellness Frameworks and Strategies: The Dimensions Personal and Professional Resilience: Coming back stronger than ever Download flyer

View Presentation Slides A public health crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic causes distress for all involved, including career service providers. Attending to our personal wellbeing during this time is just as important as supporting individuals receiving services. This webinar highlights specific tools, strategies, and resources that promote provider wellbeing.   Session Objectives: Recognize the impact of the current public health crisis on staff wellbeing Identify the signs of distress and burnout Apply wellness strategies to address distress and burnout for career service providers Related Products: Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others Flourishing at Work Webinar Series Flourishing at Work Podcast Series Integración de Prácticas de Autocuidado en la Vida Cotidiana Para Profesionales de la Salud Mental Bouncing Back: Building Resilience at Work in the Time of COVID-19

View Slide Deck Healthcare Providers are meeting the challenge of providing compassionate and effective services throughout this challenging time. Healthcare providers also need to be compassionate with themselves, attention to self-care helps maintain wellness.  In this webinar, we will introduce the Self-Care Program Manual intended to help professionals in a range of disciplines and settings facilitate brief self-care sessions with their peers and colleagues. The Manual includes information for facilitating each session. After the webinar, we will host a series of sessions as well as a detailed outline of what the facilitator will say and do during each session.  Each session provides an opportunity to develop skills to improve well-being. When people take care of themselves first, they are better able to offer high-quality support and services, manage emotions, and re-connect to purpose and meaning in their work and life. Presenter: Peggy Swarbrick, Ph.D., FAOTA, is the Associate Director of the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies and a Research Professor in the Applied Department of Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers. She developed a strength-based 8-dimensional wellness model to promote recovery from mental health and substance use and has created self-care wellness programs for people in recovery, caregivers, families, youth, and professionals. As a co-investigator, consultant, and collaborator on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grants as well as the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) grants, she has contributed to research and been a lead for developing training and intervention manuals for many of these projects. Dr. Swarbrick was a co-investigator on Perspectives on the International Classification of Diseases (11th revision); Using lived experience to improve mental health diagnoses in the United States: INCLUDE – US Study. She worked for many years at the Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey Wellness Institute. Related Products: Pause, Breathe, Move: Self-Care for Healthcare Providers Self-Care Program Manual Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others Movement Video Series Peer Support for Healthcare Providers

Moving our bodies can help us to calm our minds. This set of 7 brief videos are reminders to get up, stretch and take a pause when you need it.  These mindful movements presented by our guide, physical therapist Dr. Ellen Anderson, are intended to address targeted areas to help us gently stretch and release tension such as our breath, back and neck. Each video reviews the interaction between mind and body and demonstrates simple practices that are accessible to most. The next time you feel tension starting to take over, give one of our videos a try! Please discuss physical activity with your medical provider before you begin. These videos are not intended to replace medical treatment, if you are experiencing pain please seek immediate medical care. Related Products: Self-Care Program Manual Pause, Breathe, Move: Self-Care for Healthcare Providers Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others  

The Toward Wellness and Recovery podcast explores topics of interest to those people who support and help others, such as health and behavioral health service providers. We have produced two seasons of the podcast, Season 1: Flourishing at Work and Season 2: Mind Care Matters.   Season 1: Flourishing at Work Mental health is such a critical component of all of our lives. Some not only take care of their personal mental health but dedicate their professional lives to supporting the mental health of others. On the podcast channel for Season 1: Flourishing at Work, we’ll talk about topics of interest to those providing mental health services. We’ll address evidence-based practices, emerging needs, and ways to enhance your own wellness while supporting others. These podcasts are produced by the Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The podcast series for Season 1: Flourishing at Work, can be found here.   Season 2: Mind Care Matters Mind Care Matters, a podcast series for behavioral health administrators, supervisors, and staff provides an overview of effective and innovative programs to inspire and support people with mental health conditions. Podcast host and psychiatric rehabilitation expert, Dr. Michelle Zechner, explores new and emerging psychiatric rehabilitation techniques, education, and research to help people living with mental health conditions to live, work and love beyond the symptoms of their mental health condition. The podcast series for Season 2: Mind Care Matters, can be found here.

Professionals in general healthcare, behavioral healthcare, and educational settings are trained to support, educate, and inspire others. While they are wonderful at caring for others they may have difficulty tending to their own well-being.   Burnout and compassion fatigue can lead to poor job performance which can negatively impact colleagues, patients/clients, and students, as well as family and friends.  Attention to self-care and simple daily practices can build resilience and increase a person’s overall wellness.   This Self-Care Facilitation Manual (“the Manual”) will help professionals in a range of disciplines and settings facilitate brief self-care sessions with their peers and colleagues. The Manual includes information for facilitating each session. There is a session plan provided for each session as well as a detailed outline of what the facilitator will say and do during each session.   Related Products: Pause, Breathe, Move: Self-Care for Healthcare Providers Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others Movement Video Series Peer Support for Healthcare Providers

A public health crisis can cause distress for all involved, including providers of behavioral health services. Attending to your personal wellbeing during this time is just as important as supporting the individuals you serve. Providers are encouraged to be aware of the toll that working with others in distress can have on their own mental wellbeing. This webinar covers the following objectives: Recognize the impact of the current mental health crisis on provider wellbeing Identify the signs of distress and burnout Apply wellness strategies to address distress and burnout   Provider Wellbeing During a Public Health Crisis Recording - April 1, 2020 Provider Wellbeing During a Public Health Crisis Recording - April 21, 2020 Provider Wellbeing During a Public Health Crisis Powerpoint Slides

View Presentation Slides   This workshop targeted to mental health providers will explore the concepts of personal resilience and post-traumatic growth, including definitions and application of the ideas in personal and professional life. The links between adverse events and challenges will be discussed and how we can use these difficulties to help us grow stronger and more balanced through post-traumatic growth. Strategies for building resilience and encouraging growth will be sought from participants and discussed from a Post-Traumatic Growth lens and from the positive psychology “Flourishing” model- Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA).   Webinar Objectives: Explore resilience and post-traumatic growth for mental health providers Identify links between difficult situations and post-traumatic growth Review PERMA (Seligman) model Identify strategies for flourishing for mental health providers

The Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) has been hosting mutual support calls for mental health supervisors and direct service providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in the document are tips and resources that supervisors have shared with us over the last few weeks to address the challenges of providing supervision during this current crisis.

Healthcare providers do such important work helping those in need of healing, yet many are stressed, overwhelmed, and worried especially given recent challenges and pressures. To continue providing high-quality care while remaining resilient in the face of ongoing challenges, self-care is critical. Self-care is a set of planned and deliberate actions that you take daily or weekly to manage your stress and create or re-create a feeling of wellness. Self-care activities are what you do to get well, feel well, and stay well. Remember caring for yourself is as important as caring for others! Related Products: Flourishing at Work Webinar Series Flourishing at Work Podcast Series Pause, Breathe, Move: Self-Care for Healthcare Providers

View Presentation Slides Download Certificate Mental Health Providers are skilled at helping others manage emotional difficulties and crises, but how good are we at asking for help when we need it?  Webinar Objectives: Explore our expectations, challenges, and issues around getting help when we need it Identify who and what can offer supports in difficult times Discuss the importance of support Apply concepts to get support for ourselves  Related Products: Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others Pause, Breathe, Move: Self-Care for Healthcare Providers Bouncing Back: Building Resilience at Work in the Time of COVID-19

    A public health crisis can cause distress for all involved, including providers of behavioral health services. Attending to your personal wellbeing during this time is just as important as supporting the individuals you serve. Providers are encouraged to be aware of the toll that working with others in distress can have on their own mental wellbeing.