05. Making Impactful Changes in a Fractured System: Why I Quit Working in Public Mental Health

For many social workers and counselors, working in the mental health field is unsustainable and rife with ethical violations. Many of us feel complicit in a system that can often do more harm than good. Here you'll hear my personal experience working in mental health crisis, why I decided to quit, and what I did to contribute to communities and build capacity outside the field. In this episode, you’ll learn: what it can be like to work in the public mental health system issues with US mental health crisis services and why we lean so heavily on institutionalization ways in which racism and oppression permeate mental health diagnoses, treatment, and outcomes what you can do as an advocate or mental health worker to make small but impactful changes Links Institute for the Development of Human Arts - https://www.idha-nyc.org/ Get bonus episodes on substack! ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://depthwork.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Research Social Workers rejecting calls to replace police: https://theappeal.org/social-workers-are-rejecting-calls-for-them-to-replace-police/ ODD, ADD & Racism : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1044389419842765 Role of Peer Specialists: https://citylimits.org/2019/02/13/cityviews-is-new-yorks-mental-health-system-listening-to-people-whove-lived-it/ Parachute Program in NYC for first episode of psychosis: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/20/parachute-therapy-psychosis-new-york-uk Open Dialogue Approach to Psychosis: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00403.x Institute for Dialogic Practice Narrative Psychiatry by Bradley Lewis Disclaimer: The DEPTH Work Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Information on this podcast in no way to be construed or substituted as psychological counseling, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, or any other type of therapy or medical advice.

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