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 contributor

Highlights

Therapists’ responsibility in the media
Using popular press to advocate for mental health
Navigating social media
Covid toll on therapist’s mental health
Answering the “how are you?” question as a therapist in COVID 
Therapists in therapy 
Helping COVID frontline care workers in therapy
Working with College kids during COVID
Including therapists in COVID policy

Connect with Us

Dr. Jessica Gold
@drjessigold on twitter and instagram
www.drjessigold.com

Tamara
IG @drtamarasoles
Twitter @drtamarasoles
Facebook Dr Tamara Soles
email [email protected]
drtamarasoles.com

Resources
https://www.nami.org/Home

https://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 Show
If you're enjoying the show, help us spread the word so others can enjoy it as well
1. 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