Webinar: Mental Health and COVID-19
Friday, January 22, 2021
9:00 am | (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) | 1 Hour
Presenters:
Michelle D. Roberts, PhD ABD, LPC, NCC
Webinar Description
Surveys show a major increase in the number of U.S. adults who report symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression during the pandemic. Learn how mental health symptoms can further impact health literacy levels at a time when understanding public health information has never been more important — or confusing.Learning Objectives:
After the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explain how the pandemic’s impact on mental health can create additional health literacy barriers
- Identify how mental health symptoms such as depression, anxiety and trauma impact health literacy skills needed to follow public health guidelines
- Identify how low health literacy levels can impact COVID-19 patients, their families and their medical providers
- Learn what health educators can do to help medical professionals identify and intervene when mental health issues impact health literacy issues
About the speaker
Michelle Roberts, MEd, MSJ, LPC, NCC is the founder and clinical director of the Relational Trauma Recovery Center, with offices in St. Louis, Mo., and Portland, Ore., where she practices EMDR, attachment-focused therapy, and other evidence-based trauma models. She is a nationally certified counselor licensed in Missouri and Oregon and a member of the EMDR Disaster Network, a group of experienced EMDR therapists offering acute trauma treatment for healthcare professionals, first-responders, hospital workers, and therapists who have been working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Roberts is a doctoral candidate in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she also received a master’s degree in education in counseling. Prior to her clinical work, Roberts was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering mental health and, later, a founding director of Health Literacy Media. Her work has been recognized by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National Mental Health Association, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She served as a member of the board of the REACH Institute in New York, N.Y. Led by national leaders in child psychiatry, psychology and pediatrics, REACH arms primary care providers with the best, evidence-based therapies to improve the mental health of children and adolescents. Roberts also served as a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow at the Carter Center in Atlanta and has remained involved in the center's mental health and social justice initiatives for the past 16 years. Roberts is the author of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement’s new publication: “How to manage your Anxiety during COVID-19: A guide that will provide you with information and ways to manage your anxiety when it comes to dealing with Coronavirus/COVID-19.”
JHU’s Daily COVID-19 Data in Motion: Jan. 22, 2021:
https://youtu.be/zqVeGkD4IeE
Here's How to Spot Coronavirus Misinformation on Social Media:
https://youtu.be/IcNLrmChKBM
Health care workers share the devastating mental toll of COVID-19: "I'm no hero, I'm broken":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-health-care-workers-ptsd-depression/
Video Links:
JHU’s Daily COVID-19 Data in Motion: Jan. 22, 2021:
https://youtu.be/zqVeGkD4IeE
Here's How to Spot Coronavirus Misinformation on Social Media:
https://youtu.be/IcNLrmChKBM
Health care workers share the devastating mental toll of COVID-19: "I'm no hero, I'm broken":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-health-care-workers-ptsd-depression/
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