Creating an Environment where Healing Mental Illness is Possible: A Treatment Team Approach

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this video I’m going to talk about how you can create an environment where healing is possible and increase your chances of beating your mental illness. And while most people don’t have the opportunity to go to residential treatment if they need it, there is one thing that I’ve taken from my experience there that helps me be a better therapist now than I was before. And that’s taking a team approach to treatment. Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapynutshell.com Thanks BetterHelp for sponsoring the video: BetterHelp- Professional, Affordable Online Counseling starting at around $65 a week https://www.betterhelp.com/therapyina... Learn more in one of my in-depth mental-health classes: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=01192021 Check Out My Favorite Books for Mental Health: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/bes... Music licensed from www.Bensound.com or Artlist.io Images from Freepik.com (premium license), Pixabay, or Wikimedia commons Therapy in a Nutshell, and the information provided by Emma McAdam, is solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. If you are in crisis please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to therapy in a nutshell. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family
0:06.7	therapist, and this is the podcast where I condense mental health skills into bite-sized nuggets of
0:13.1	health. Hello everyone. I'm a licensed therapist and I'm in a raspberry patch.
0:23.6	Why?
0:24.6	Because I have three children inside and this is probably the quietest place I can find.
0:29.6	In this video, we're going to talk about how you can create an environment where healing and growth is possible and how to increase your chances of beating mental illness.
0:41.3	When I worked in residential treatment, I was able to take part in some seriously amazing growth.
0:53.3	So I worked with these girls who had been through hell.
0:56.0	They'd been through trauma and dysfunctional families.
0:58.0	Many of them were experiencing multiple mental illnesses at once.
1:02.0	So like eating disorders, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, complex PTSD,
1:06.0	borderline personality disorder, suicide attempts.
1:09.0	Their situation often included other difficult medical or
1:13.3	educational or situational challenges. And most of these young women were in treatment because
1:18.4	their parents were so worried for their safety that they had no other option. And the coolest
1:23.8	part was we were able to see some really impressive and amazing changes occur within this group of girls because we built a relationship of trust and they worked their tails off and so did we.
1:37.3	And also, you know, the amount of intervention really helped. These young women and their families, they got dozens or hundreds of interactions a week to help them change their habits and to learn new skills and to resolve old trauma. And really,
1:51.5	the level of support was, you know, incredible. And that helped a lot of these young women get
1:57.6	better. And while most people don't have the opportunity to go to
2:01.2	residential treatment if they need it, there is one thing that I've taken from
2:05.4	my experience there that helps me be a better therapist now than I was before.
2:09.2	And that's taking a team approach to treatment. So at that residential treatment center,
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