Transforming Mental Health With Small Interventions

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3 ай бұрын

The Michael Shermer Show # 402
If you’ve ever wanted mental health support but haven’t been able to get it, you are not alone.
In fact, you’re part of the more than 50% of adults and more than 75% of young people worldwide with unmet psychological needs. Maybe you’ve faced months-long waiting lists, or you’re not sure if your problems are ‘bad enough’ to merit treatment? Maybe you tried therapy but stopped due to costs or time constraints? Perhaps you just don’t know where to start looking? The fact is, there are infinite reasons why mental health treatment is hard to get. There’s an urgent need for new ideas and pathways to help people heal.
Little Treatments, Big Effects integrates cutting-edge psychological science, lived experience narratives and practical self-help activities to introduce a new type of therapeutic experience to audiences worldwide: single-session interventions. Its chapters unpack why systemic change in mental healthcare is necessary; the science behind how single-session interventions make it possible; how others have created ‘meaningful moments’ in their recovery journeys (and how you can, too); and how single-session interventions could transform the mental healthcare system into one that’s accessible to all.
Shermer and Schleider discuss: her own experience with mental illness and eating disorder • 80% of people meet criteria for a mental illness at some point in their life • the goal of therapy • navigating therapy modalities, access, payments, insurance • What prevents people from getting the mental health help they need? • outcome measures to test different therapies • traditional therapy vs. single-session interventions • growth mindset • Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) • difference between goals and values • how action brings change.
Jessica L. Schleider, Ph.D. is an American psychologist, author, and an associate professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University. She is the lab director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University and her Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology at Yale School of Medicine. She has received numerous scientific awards for her work in this area and her work is frequently featured in major media outlets (Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Washington Post). In 2020, she was selected as one of Forbes Magazine’s ‘30 Under 30’ in Healthcare. She has developed six evidence-based, single-session mental health programmes, which have served more than 40,000 people to date. She is the author of The Growth Mindset Workbook for Teens and co-editor of the Oxford Guide to Brief and Low Intensity Interventions for Children and Young People. Her new book is Little Treatments, Big Effects: How to Build Meaningful Moments That Can Transform Your Mental Health.
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@TJ-kk5zf 3 ай бұрын

great guest. God bless, Michael

@AtypicalPaul 3 ай бұрын

Yes! I don't feel a need to add to her words. Just, yes.

@toddboothbee1361 3 ай бұрын

Finding in my childhood an artistic discipline with many intellectual and technical facets saved my life.

@carolspencer6915 3 ай бұрын

Good morning Skeptic, Michael and Jessica Reassuring to hear some super sensemaking in the realm of mental health. You also mention Jordan Peterson briefly here! Just want to suggest my heart felt gratitude to a previous addiction service patient of mine, this person during one of our many worth while clinic appointments, a good few years ago now. Suggested taking a look at Jordan Peterson's work on KZbin. Super grateful I did. Long story very short. Thankyou for the sensemaking sanity brain gym. Grateful indeed. 😀 💜

@luck484 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the book and the podcast. I bought the book. Sadly, I don't believe the health care system in the US can use these techniques. My impression of the health care system is that it is about financial transactions, the book seems to be about human transactions. If HMO's or PPO's can build a business model then perhaps mental health services will become a commodity. There is a good chance the book will have a positive impact. People want to be OK, and feel OK. There are personal choices on how to use technologies, like the internet. The way the internet works now is that business entities extract attention from individuals and sell the attention to other business entities. At the moment I can't think of a way for business to make money from mentally healthy people.

@davidwardrop9214 3 ай бұрын

Another great talk from Skeptic.

@lufeacbo8 2 ай бұрын

👏👏👏

@mpaczkow 3 ай бұрын

Very Interesting. Like many other Michael Shermer events. I think part of the problem with health care is that the true cause of a ‘condition’ is often hidden but there is a bias to pursue the simplest path to immediate effect. I think this applies to both physical and mental healthcare. Doctors will write scripts for drugs but less frequenly for nutritionists, or physical trainers. This is driven by the way we pay for healthcare certainly, but I suspect that the reason we have such a system is hidden, and more complex to solve. It seems like certain parts of the system are optimized with some effect but isolated by geography, class, race, etc.

@brothabuddha879 3 ай бұрын

Purchased my copy today!

@venkataponnaganti 3 ай бұрын

What is her website?

@hueyiroquois3839 3 ай бұрын

In my experience, MH counseling is like traditional Chinese medicine. Every shrink I've been to has a radically different, but equally pointless description of how to fix whatever problem. The ones with doctoral degrees aren't particularly bad, but some of them still believe in BS like aromatherapy, multiple personality disorder, and that self-esteem mythology.

@teddywinroth 3 ай бұрын

Being a psychologist and psychotherapist myself I agree and respect your opinion. In my mind we psychologists are like doctors in the 1700. On the verge of actually knowing something. Yet it is still worth continuing to struggle for better knowledge and understanding of the human mind.

@luck484 3 ай бұрын

@@teddywinroth Interesting metaphor, Reality as it presented itself 300 years ago to a person or people a lot like me. How was human experience diffrent 300 years ago? I am wondering if individual human experience has improved over the time period in question. The author subject of the interview seems to be trying to improve the cost effective delivery of mental health services. I am OK with that. What did mental heath services look like 300 years ago. How is that measured? I had a job where the management request to the workers was "continuous measurable improvement." From my point of view the results were not impressive, because measurable is not a definition or relevant.

@toddboothbee1361 3 ай бұрын

CBT is passe. Coping is not a good strategy. Metacognitive therapy (MCT) is apparently the most effective approach amongst evidence-based therapies.

@alphacause 3 ай бұрын

From looking at the thumb nail, I though Michael Shermer was inviting Anne Hathaway to be interviewed about mental health 😉

@roobookaroo 3 ай бұрын

To Mike Shermer. I love the show, never miss an episode, even watch some a few times (ex: Daniel Lieberman). But I feel that you should spend at least TWO OR THREE SECONDS at the beginning to show in full screen the title cover of the book, i.e. today, Jessica Schleider's book, and not just flip it around for half-a-second. This would not be more than fair to the guest.