Beer Supervision: Recent Episodes
Aaron Rajamani and Jesse Richardson
Learn about the joys of working in Mental Health over a Cold Brew.
Join an Early Career Psychologist and Social Worker as they take an honest look at what it's like to work in the Mental Health field, interview expert guests, and review some local beers. Welcome to your first sesh.
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The legend returns to us in our time of need.... This episode we welcome back Dr. Josh West to speak to us about what to expect when working with mental health medications and he helps us review a supreme Japanese beer. We dive into the interesting history of psychiatric medications, the basics you should know, and what might new drugs may be around the corner.
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Sorry for the delay! We're back and talking about whether we need to consider religion or spiritualty as part of mental health practice. All while drinking the Galaxy Fart Blaster IPA.
We discuss how workers feel about it, what the research says, discuss this history of religion and mental health work and heaps more.
Strap yourselves in!
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This episode we review a Tassie Beer and discuss how technology has and will change the way mental health therapy is provided. Is telehealth effective? Are apps any good? What's coming up? Get some vaguely helpful answers right here!
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This episode we review a hemp beer and discuss the vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout. We discuss how the risk of being exposed to trauma is an unavoidable part of the work we do. However, there is a lot we can do to prepare ourselves and avoid this effecting our own wellbeing.
Helpful training:
https://professionals.blueknot.org.au/professional-development-training/training-for-individuals
https://www.wmhi.com.au/vicarious-trauma-training
https://www.orygen.org.au/Training/Resources/Trauma/Webinars/Working-with-yp-in-the-trauma-space
https://www.phoenixaustralia.org
00:00 - Intro
02:34 - Maku Beer
05:38 - What is Vicarious Trauma?
11:24 - Risk of Trauma
15:06 - What does it look like?
17:57 - Compassion fatigue and burnout
23:15 - Beer Check-in
25:38 - Evaluating and Managing your own risk
33:50 - What if I am experiencing it?
35:43 - Helpful training
39:19 - Literally nothing
40:10 - Knowing why you do it
41:37 - We are not different from our clients
44:13 - Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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It's Christmas! To celebrate we're cracking open a morning brew and discussing the latest frontier in mental health. We discuss recent research into how the natural environment effects our mental health and how climate change may shape the future of the mental health sector.
Some further reading!
Systematic literature review on the impact on Climate Change on Mental Health:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00074/full
Ecological Grief:
https://theconversation.com/i-felt-immense-grief-one-year-on-from-the-bushfires-scientists-need-mental-health-support-148251
Longitudinal study of mental health when movie to and from greener urban areas:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es403688w
Scoping review exploring “Screen time” and “Green time” for children:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237725
Importance of nature for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.2248
Links between climate change, environmental pollution, COVID-19 and Mental Health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721002485
Statistical analysis linking climate to suicide rates and economic variables:
https://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12991-016-0106-2
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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We're back for Season 2! This episode we discuss the forces that cause worker shortages in Rural mental health. Why we enjoyed working there, and why we eventually moved to work in a Metro area.
Royal Commission into Victorian Mental Health: https://finalreport.rcvmhs.vic.gov.au/download-report/
00:00 - Intro
04:43 - Beers Introduction
10:45 - What the problem?
15:30 - Benefits of working regional
17:31 - Lack of specialist services
21:29 - Why people leave
24:42 - Why we worked in and left Regional
33:09 - Research on Gippland rural workforce limitations
36:07 - Social and community connection
40:57 - Cultural differences beween metro and regional
41:53 - Beer Check-in
44:11 - Missing Career Pipeline
47:39 - Royal commission recommendations
53:03 - Holistic support to attract and keep workers
56:47 - It's systemic
60:19 - We recommend it!
61:42 - Beer Review
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The beers we drink are chosen by just us and we don't receive any sponsorships.
Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This week in our Season Finale, we drink a strange beer, discuss the unexpected things we've learned in our first few years working in Mental Health, and share some good ways we've found to keep growing as workers. See you in Season 2!
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Social worker Sean McLoughlin, joins us this week as we discuss the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health and helps us understand the unique challenges of reforming mental health in regional and rural areas. Sean brings with him experience and insights from various humans service including public mental health.
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This week we discuss how to prepare yourself as a student and a new graduate. Dr. Robyn Martin, Associate Dean of Social Work and Human Services at RMIT University, speaks to us about common things students grapple with when making the transition to practice and essential role that learning from lived experience plays in good mental health practice.
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Intro to Dr. Robyn Martin
06:25 Beer Introduction
09:26 Working at a university
10:44 Critical Mental Health
12:26 Really listening to your service users
14:00 Effect of work pressure on clinicians
16:05 Preparing yourself as a student
19:24 Advice for new graduates
21:45 Working according to your values
23:00 Hierarchy’s of knowledge
25:00 Value of lived experience educators
28:44 Does university prepare you for practice?
30:45 Working on misconceptions in the classroom
33:00 Beer check-in
35:00 Progression of a PHD student
37:00 Why do a PHD?
39:00 What’s required to do a PHD?
42:00 What to consider when getting into Mental Health
44:00 Humility and asserting your values
47:30 Value of a multidisciplinary team
48:30 Beer review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Emily Unity speaks to us this week about Youth Peer Work, the exciting opportunities and significant challenges in working and developing an emerging field in mental health. Join as us we discover how critical lived-experience is in the recovery journey, and how we can improve our care by effectively marrying expert clinical knowledge with expert experience.
00:00 Introduction
03:33 Intro to Emily Unity
06:23 Beer Introduction
08:59 What is Youth Peer Work?
10:16 Distinction between peer work and clinical practice
13:25 Importance of relationship
15:33 Choosing Youth Peer Work
20:00 Individual and systemic advocacy
21:40 Challenges of working with other professions
26:25 Navigating self-disclosure of mental health
28:32 Working in a new and developing field
31:43 Experts by Experience
35:19 Beer check-in
35:50 Boundaries vs Engagement with young people
43:22 Good reasons to get into Youth Peer Work
44:26 Being prepared to enter the field
45:28 Role requirements and limits in career paths
48:01 Why it’s worth doing
50:00 Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This week we speak to Dr. George Doorn, Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Federation University. We get in insight into what it's like to become an academic, the joy of doing research, and how it impacts practice. Please also enjoy the ambient sounds of a cricket in the background.
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Intro and Outro Music:
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Analy Alfonso, a highly experienced counsellor speaks to us about what counselling is, and it’s unique strengths in client-centred practice. We also talk about the challenges of finding the right amount of emotional investment with your clients and never bring up the fact that Analy is the 2nd Alfonso on our podcast.
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Intro Analy Alfonso
04:52 Beer Introduction
08:48 What is Counselling?
11:28 The value of talking
13:07 Who can benefit from counselling?
16:41 The broad field of a counsellor
19:46 Comparing psychology and counselling
23:40 What makes a good/bad therapy experience
26:07 The strength of Counselling
28:34 The joy of working with adolescents
31:57 Are you really working in a client directed way?
36:47 Beer check-in
38:46 How emotionally invested should you be?
46:56 Great counselling experiences
50:44 Should you become a counsellor?
55:54 Beer review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This week Family Therapist Mark Glowrey helps us understand the highly innovative and creative space of family therapy. We discuss how therapy can unlock complex problems and help family systems get moving again in a positive direction. We learn about how it can open new doors for our practice. He brought us a beer to review too!
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Intro Mark Glowrey and Family Therapy
04:52 Beer Introduction
06:39 What is Family Therapy?
10:47 What contexts would you use it?
13:37 Benefits compared individual therapy
17:46 Limitations of the therapy
18:47 Engaging a whole family system
21:18 Working within highly conflictual systems
24:00 Beer Discussion
26:34 Change is the outcome
30:02 Factors effecting length of therapy
33:54 Private and Public service difference
35:30 Awareness of family therapy as an option.
36:31 Why you should consider doing Family Therapy
39:12 Practical joys and things to consider
42:14 Introducing family work to your practice.
44:42 Innovation/creativity and powerful break throughs
47:14 Family therapy is broad and flexible field
48:34 Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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This week we discuss how the concept of 'risk management' colours work in the mental health field, and how it changed the way we expected to practice once we actually started working.
00:00 Aaron’s move to Melbourne
04:00 Topic Intro
04:40 Beer Introduction
06:50 Defining risk
12:05 Prominence of risk management in mental health
17:05 Integrating risk management into therapy sessions
20:00 Pushing back on a risk focus
24:20 Effectiveness of risk assessment
25:40 Risk management vs therapeutic benefit
29:10 The missing middle of the system
32:00 Beer check-in
33:20 Risk in primary mental health
38:49 Risk factors
43:35 How to learn to work with risk
48:20 Beer review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Mental Health Researcher, Advocate, Social Worker and Lawyer, Dr. Chris Maylea discusses his recent paper with us calling for the end of the social work profession as well as the significant ethical concerns and contradictions with involuntary treatment in our current mental health system.
Check out Equallywell.org.au
The end of social work - Chris Maylea
https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa203/6018482?redirectedFrom=PDF
00:00 Introduction to Dr. Chris Maylea
01:20 Intro to ‘the end of social work’
03:10 Beer Introduction
06:15 Function of the mental health system
11:27 Structural issues with Victorian system
16:15 Contradiction of social work ethics and role
19:50 Human rights and involuntary treatment
28:40 Can involuntary treatment be justified?
37:47 Meaningful reform requires consumers
41:30 Disparity of care and health outcomes
47:00 Using your skills to create change
49:00 Capacity of social work to be self-critical
54:39 Failure of mental health and social work reform
59:20 Social workers are conservatives
62:30 Final takeaways for new workers
66:10 Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Child Consultant Psychiatrist Dr. Ajit Kumar shares with us his experience and research in diagnosing, treating and supporting people who experience psychosis. We speak about how to recognise it, early intervention, challenges with treatment, and so much more in a jam packed episode.
00:00 Podcast Reviews
04:00 Introduction to Dr. Ajit Kumar
05:43 Ajit’s road to Child Psychiatry
09:28 Beer Introduction
13:10 What is Psychosis
16:15 Causes
21:11 Early Signs
28:22 Positive and Negative Symptoms
33:00 Medications and Psychological Treatment
34:00 Beer Check-In
36:08 Prevalence of Psychosis
38:46 Need for early intervention
40:05 Psychosis or Another Mental Illness?
48:02 Hearing voices outside of Mental Illness
51:16 What leads to better outcomes
55:49 Medication Compliance/Choice.
63:23 Beer Review
69:55 Please Seek Support if you experience Mental Illness
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Recorded at the Burra Brewing Co. in Korumburra VIC. Social worker and Advocate, Natalie Alfonso speaks to us about why everyone benefits from people with a lived experience of mental illness being part of the workforce and what people with a mental illness need to consider when entering the field.
00:00 Introduction to Burra Brewing Co.
02:15 Introduction to Natalie Alfonso
03:44 Beer Introduction
05:43 Why this Topic?
09:50 What difference does it make?
14:50 Geoffrey’s life and death
15:45 Mental Health as a worker
16:40 External and Internal Stigma
22:00 Disclosure of Mental Illness
25:05 Looking for the right
29:30 Being prepared/Practical Tips
40:20 Beer Check-In
43:00 Good Workplace Policy
49:45 Workloads and Mental Health
54:35 Lived Experience is a Strength
59:35 Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Psychologist and Business Owner, Justine Anderson talks to us about why starting a private practice in mental health might be for you. She shares with us the advantages, rewards and what you need to consider when starting up.
00:00 Introduction to Justine Anderson
03:21 Beer Intro
07:33 Private Practice in Early Career
14:55 Considering the Business Side
18:14 Good and Bad Reasons to get into Private
24:15 Business Sustainability
26:30 Beer Check-In
27:50 Isolation and Peer Supervision
32:31 Specialising in Young People
35:41 Setting Boundaries about your Role.
42:22 Things you should do Before Starting.
48:54 Beer Review
52:00 Next Episode
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Mental Health Social Worker, Liz Harbridge takes us on a journey of how mental health practice has evolved over the years and why progress is not guaranteed if we don't intentionally learn from our history.
00:00 Introduction to Liz Harbridge
02:56 Beer Intro
05:44 Value of getting into Mindfullness
11:22 Deinstitutionalisation
17:52 The Business Model
20:49 Changes in Diagnosis
23:59 Fragmentation of Services
25:29 Missing Therapeutic Communities
29:08 Holistic Support Service
31:31 Lost gains/Not taking progress for granted
35:30 Effect of Technology
37:32 Flexibility of Mindfulness as a therapy
41:18 Issues with the Mental Health Workforce
43:52 Value of Unions
47:01 Early Intervention
48:35 Beer Check-In
50:06 Stigma and Consumers working Mental Health
57:52 Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Dr. Josh West Psychiatric Registrar, joins us as we discuss how to manage ourselves well to provide the best care we can to clients that we find challenging. We also delve into what it's like to be a Doctor in Mental Health.
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Who is Dr. Josh West?
02:13 This week's beer
05:30 Psychiatry's role in mental health
09:30 Collaborative work
13:40 Why Psychiatry?
19:00 Self-care in high pressure work
24:10 Beer check-In
25:13 Being prepared for draining work
29:34 Counter Transference
35:19 Managing our expectations
41:25 Specific presentations we find challenging
44:20 When there's no immediate solution
52:13 Beer review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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We discuss what it's like to provide Therapy. What does it involve? What are we aiming for? What are the challenge and mistakes to avoid? We also spend some time discussing assessment and diagnosis for Mental Illness and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Beer Intro
04:05 Working in Mental Health during COVID-19
10:20 Aims of Psychotherapy
12:50 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
22:35 Trauma Therapy
35:54 Assessments and Diagnosis
42:23 Difference between University and Practice
44:46 Podcast Plans
45:50 Beer Review
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El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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Our journey into working in Mental Health. Pathways, Difficulties, Opportunities and What we wish we had know. In this episode we also talk about being a Social Worker in Mental Health.
00:00 What is Beer Supervision?
02:30 Who are we?
04:25 Beer introduction
07:00 Why/How did you get into Mental Health?
11:00 Why Social Work?
14:00 Mental Health Social Work
17:15 Working within a Multi-Disciplinary team.
20:35 Challenges of starting in Public Mental Health
23:52 Burnout
30:14 What keeps you in Mental Health?
34:10 Future Podcasts/Guests
35:55 Beer Review
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Intro and Outro Music:
El Camino del Alce by Silva de Alegria
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