Mental Health Awareness & Advocacy: Recent Trend

Teacher

COURSE OVERVIEW

Over 40% of Americans report more mental distress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As our world continues to experience a mental health epidemic, Marter shares the latest statistics and trends in stress, suicide, depression, anxiety, addiction and other mental health issues. In this presentation, participants explore treatment implications while responding to changing needs.

Attendees leave prepared to become mental health advocates and support clients by promoting education, stomping out stigma, and supporting legislation that impacts behavioral healthcare providers and clients. Marter provides informative resources to attendees about mental health organizations like the National Association of Mental Illness, Hope for the Day, Born This Way, and the Kennedy Forum.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Explain current statistics and trends in stress, suicide, depression, anxiety, addiction, and other mental health issues.
Explore treatment implications and changing needs considering the recent trends.
Discuss how to become a mental health advocate and support clients by promoting education, stomping out stigma, and supporting legislation that affects behavioral healthcare providers and clients.
Identify organizations that can support and be a resource for clinicians and clients seeking services, workplace training, and enforcement of mental health parity.

Target Audience: Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, & LMFT

Content Level: Beginner to Intermediate

2 CE Hour Credits Approved By: NAADAC, ASWB, & NBCC

State Board Approval

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quizzes 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 0
Certificate Yes
Assessments Yes

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Joyce Marter

Joyce Marter has been a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor for over twenty years and is an expert in mindfulness, self-esteem, career, and the psychology of money. She is the Founder of Urban Balance, an insurance-friendly, counseling practice with over 175 therapists working from nearly twenty locations in six states.

Marter is a leader in the profession and has served as President of the Illinois Counseling Association, two terms as President of the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association, and Chair of the Midwest Region of the American Counseling Association. She is Adjunct Faculty at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.

As a member of the National Speakers Association, Joyce is a national keynote speaker and corporate trainer. She is routinely consulted as a mental health expert in the media and has been featured in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, CNN, Real Simple Magazine, and MTV.

Her book, The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life will be published by Sounds True in July.