
Launching Ideas: Mental Health and Psychological Well-being SIG
Posted on August 28, 2017 2:18 pm MST, by Walker Ladd
Welcome to the SIG for Mental Health and Psychological Well-being Research Community Forum
Please use this forum as an opportunity to introduce yourself and to share, develop and suggest potential research ideas.
Hello to all in the Mental Health and Psychological SIG! I value how Walker has brought us together for a focus of the utmost importance - supporting research and scholarly discourse relative to mental illness. I know we are all busy in our professional and social realities but this forum can be very powerful and deserves our attention. Though I am busy as a new faculty member at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA (to be clear since the podcast I had done with Psych U last spring indicated my prior Bloomsburg University affiliation) I am committed to service and scholarship in support of mental health awareness and challenging stigma toward people with mental illness. I am grateful to be associated with great professionals with a similar mission! Best to all!
Todd Hastings, U of Phoenix Alumnus - SAS, Nursing Education PhD
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Greetings Everyone!
I was happy to "stumble upon" the Mental Health and Psychological SIG. Perhaps not unlike others, my "day job" is a bit different from the research interests I pursue nights and weekends.
During the day, I faciliate research and care and treatment related to women living with HIV/AIDS, which I have been involved with for 30 years. I am a fairly recent grad (EdD, Sept 2015), where I focused my dissertation interventional study on meditation, positive psychology, and subjective well-being (specifically, gratitude interventions among adolescents). I have attended several conferences related to my dissertation, and two publications (finally!) were published within the past few months.
As Research Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Miami School of Medicine, I will be working towards funding and research projects where I am the principal investigator. I hope to be able to merge these two interests as a new investigator.
I look forward to a future of collaborations with this SIG focused more on psychological well-being and other strengths-based approaches to mental health and well-being.
Dr. Lunthita M. Duthely, EdD, MS
Academia.edu: https://hospicefellowship.academia.edu/LunthitaDuthelyEdDMS
Researchgate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lunthita_Duthely
Welcome, Dr. Duthely!
I am excited to have you join our group. Your work in HIV/AIDS is so important. Congratulations on your recent graduation and publications. You are an inspiration. You shared that your research interests include psychological well-being, gratitude, and meditation for adolescents. For a brief time, I had a consulting business taking mindfulness training into high school curriculum and for individual clients. I found that athletic teams were very interested in performance enhancement, and parents were interested in test anxiety mitigation for their children. The brain/concussion issue for teenage athletes is huge as well.
As you know, the brain science in this area is compelling. Adolescent brains are dynamic and dopamine driven. I often have my students look at studies on the effect of different drugs or alcohol on the corpus callosum. The irreversible damage really brings it home.
I am very interested in your topic and would like to support your research and possibly collaborate. Let me know more about what you are thinking! You can share in this thread.
Welcome to the SIG and take care!
Hello Dr. Ladd,
Thank you for sharing your experience of mindfulness in high schools!
My interest and opportunity (to refrain from using the word "challenge") is to replicate and expand the work I began with my dissertation study. Collaborating with a colleague in Japan, I made a first attempt with first year college students.
Yes, definitely, let us continue to communicate and be in touch regarding possible future collaborations!
-Lunthita
Hi Lunthita,
What are your thoughts on the "second victim" concept?
References:
ASHRM. (2016). The clinician and staff support toolkit: Navigating your way to developing a clinician and staff support program. Retrieved from http://www.ashrm.org/education/webinars/2016-04-Clinician-and-Staff-Support-Toolkit.dhtml
Pratt, S., Kenney, L., Scott, S. D., & Wu, A. W. (2012). How to develop a second victim support program: a toolkit for health care organizations. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety/Joint Commission Resources, 38(5), 235-40.
Seys, D., Scott, S., Wu, A., Van Gerven, E., Vleugels, A., Euwema, M., ... & Vanhaecht, K. (2013). Supporting involved health care professionals (second victims) following an adverse health event: a literature review.International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50(5), 678-687.
Wu, A. W. (2000). Medical error: the second victim. Western Journal of Medicine, 172(6), 358.
Wu, A. W. (2000). Medical error: the second victim. BMJ Quality & Safety, 726-727
Wu, A. W., & Steckelberg, R. C. (2012). Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse?. BMJ Quality & Safety, 21(4), 267-270.
Louise
Hello Louise,
I thank you for sharing the concept of the "second victim". I just glened Wu's (2000) article. In a field where most individuals are high achievers, you can understand how this "second victim" phenomenon could easily plays out amongst those in the field of medicine.
Wu's (2000) practical advice is an important one: "The decisive factor will be how we handle them. Patient safety and physician welfare will be well served if we can be more honest about our mistakes to our patients, our colleagues, and ourselves" (p. 727).
References:
Wu, A. W. (2000). Medical error: the second victim. BMJ Quality & Safety, 726-727. doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7237.726