Mental Health Advocacy in COVID
Psychiatrist Dr. Jessica Gold joins me to discuss mental health advocacy in the popular press and social media, how she navigates this responsibility and amplifies the voices of frontline workers and therapists particularly during COVID 19. We also talk about therapists in therapy and how Jessi how she supports frontline workers in her work. Jessica (“Jessi”) Gold, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement, and Outreach in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in Saint Louis. She works clinically as an outpatient psychiatrist and primarily sees college and graduate students, as well as faculty, staff, and hospital employees. In her administrative role, Dr. Gold is helping her university and hospital's overall mental health response to covid for faculty and staff and finding acute and sustainable ways to take care of our own. Dr. Gold is particularly interested in college mental health, women’s mental health and gender equity, physician wellness, and the overlap between popular media, stigma, and psychiatry. While she has published frequently in the more "traditional" methods of research papers and academic publications, she has also enjoyed teaching about mental health topics and decreasing stigma through writing for popular press outlets and she been featured in, among others, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TIME, Vox, Newsweek, Self, InStyle, Glamour, and Forbes, where she is a contributorHighlightsTherapists’ responsibility in the mediaUsing popular press to advocate for mental healthNavigating social mediaCovid toll on therapist’s mental healthAnswering the “how are you?” question as a therapist in COVID Therapists in therapy Helping COVID frontline care workers in therapyWorking with College kids during COVIDIncluding therapists in COVID policyConnect with UsDr. Jessica Gold@drjessigold on twitter and instagramwww.drjessigold.com TamaraIG @drtamarasolesTwitter @drtamarasolesFacebook Dr Tamara Solesemail tamara@thesecurechild.comdrtamarasoles.comResourceshttps://www.nami.org/Homehttps://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2018/Why-Suicide-Reporting-Guidelines-Matter https://www.newsweek.com/my-coping-skills-therapist-2020-fail-fail-again-1547686 https://cmha.ca/https://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/https://afsp.org/Support the ShowIf you're enjoying the show, help us spread the word so others can enjoy it as well1. Leave a review on itunes/apple podcast 2. Share an episode on Social media. Be sure to tag me on it so I can see @drtamarasoles on facebook, twitter and instagram