Heather K. Horton
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DEPARTMENT
Albany School of Social Welfare
Graduate Faculty and Student Handbook

UNIVERISTY 
MyUAlbany
UA Libraries
UA Library Social Work Databases
Eres Login
Blackboard (9)
Fall 2013 Academic Planning Calendar
Spring 2014 Academic Planning Calendar
U Albany's Counseling Center (Excellent!)
Disability Resource Center (for anyone and everyone who wants support)

WRITING/APA
Albany Writing Center
APA Guide Citation Fox (via UAlbany - step-by-step! Try it)
APA Style Guide (Thank you: Douglas Degelman, PhD Vanguard University of Southern California)
10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Critically Analyzing Information Sources
APA Style Guide
Plagiarism 1
Plagiarism 2

SOCIAL WORK
DSM 5 Library
Psychotherapy.Net (streaming videos of psychotherapy techniques)
Information for practice (Excellent!)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)
National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
CSWE Minority Fellowship Program (for doctoral students)
Social Work Career

Boston Liberation Health Group (A framework for Social Justice in Clinical Practice)
Social Work Action Network (UK)

Snopes (reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation)
Organizing 101

Quick Links

MyUAlbany
Google Scholar
UA Libraries
PubMed
PsychInfo
The Campbell Collaboration Library and Database
Cochrane Collaboration

Useful

Dictionary/Thesaurus
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Grad Resources (mentoring counseling and more)
Zotero
Scholarship opportunities (via UAlbany School of Social Welfare)
Albany Writing Center

Letters of Recommendation

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Joel Zimmer Photography


Coursework

HBSE 1

Video Links
Not Dead Yet  (Norman Lear at 93) (7 minutes)
Taller than the Trees (Aging/Japan/Caregiving) 17 minutes
What is Normal Assignment (Video)
A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race
Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of crack dealing
Carl Gustav Jung Explains His Groundbreaking Theories About Psychology in Rare Interview (1957)
WAMC Interview: Raising My Rainbow

Nature versus Nurture (50 minutes)
Camp Ramapo
Inside the Teenage Brain (60 minutes)
Medicating Kids (Frontline, 56 minutes)
A Girl Like Me (7 minutes)
The Fire This Time: The Watts Rebellion at 40 (12 minutes)
A Class Divided (50 minutes)
A World Without Gender (Star Trek, 5 minutes)
State Health Facts (Poverty by Race, Table and Map)
Lupita's Speech to Essence  on Growing up Darkskinned

Hari Kondabolu says his mom is hilarious & not bc of her accent

Content Links
Raising My Rainbow dot com
Theories for Clinical Social Work Practice: Interview with Joseph Walsh, Ph.D. (47 minutes)
Relationships Among Personality Theories and Theorists
Understanding Behavioral Individuality (Temperament)
Ethnicity, Nationality, Race, Heritage, and Culture (Blogger/Traveler's Blog)
If Men Could Menstruate (Gloria Steinem, 1978: Ms. Magazine)

The Brain from Top to Bottom

Research Methods

Video Links
Stanford Prison Experiment

Content Links

LawsDystopiaBlog
IRB Watch (a dead Link tbi)
The High Cost of Skepticism
Who Abused Jane Doe
American College Health Association National College Health Association
Social Research Methods (sampling, measurement, design, analysis)
Research Methodology and Statistics
General Social Survey
Information for Practice
National Comorbidity Study
Research America Polling and Public Opinion
Polling Article (with methods) "Public Supports NSA Spying On Their Email, Neighbors And Foreign Leaders"



Clinical Evaluation of Practice

Video Links
The Process of Evidence-Based Practice: Interview with Danielle E. Parrish, Ph.D. (23 minutes)

Content Links
BMJ Evidence Based Mental Health
California Evidence-based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)
BMJ Clinical Evidence
(excellent)
DHHS: Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence Based Practice
SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices



Research Methods (PhD Seminar)

Checklist for Writing a Publishable Paper
Writing a research article: advice to beginners

HBSE 2

Video Links
The Power of Addiction (Gabor Mate, Ted Talk/18 minutes)
Intervention
THIN
Tourette's
Tony's Story (11 minutes) 
Tracy's Story (CBT/Panic Attacks, 14 minutes)
Medicating Kids (Frontline, 56 minutes)
Living with Schizophrenia (15 minutes)
Examining Mental Illness in America
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
(TED Talk. 19 minutes)

​Content Links

Personality Theories
Relationships Among Personality Theories and Theorists
Narcissistic Personality Disorder

How to Spot a Narcissist
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder

Schizophrenia (Ted Talk - Elyn Saks)
DSM Content Links
APA DSM 5
  • Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5
DSM 4 TR
  • Psych Net UK (DSM Disorder Sheets)
  • Disorder Sheets for Personality Disorders
  • APA Diagnostic Classification (BehaveNet)
  • DSM All Psych Online

Personality Tests

MMPI
Meyers-Briggs Foundation

Other Content Links
A blog about Mental Health

DSM 5 in Distress
Schizophrenia is the New Retarded

Children and Mental Health (Surgeon General Report; Theory, Intervention, & Assessment for all Disorders)
Podcast: Best Practices and Resources for Psychopharmacotherapy (Interview with Kia J. Bentley)
National Comorbidity Study
Global Assessment of Functioning Scale
Relationships Among Personality Theories and Theorists
What Black Men Think
Royal College of Psychiatrists (CBT description)
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF CBT)





Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's a part of our life. And I tend to think of it like my shadow. Sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there’s very little, but its always with me.
          
                                                                                  - Aimee Mullins



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Current thinking re: "schizophrenia" from the International Society for Psychological and Social Responses to Psychosis (ISPS): 

ISPS recently changed its name to eliminate the word “schizophrenia,” based on a growing international consensus that the stigmatizing impact of the term far outweighs the limited validity of the construct.  Our previous keynoter, Richard Bentall, PhD, has written persuasively that while there is scientific evidence for the existence of certain symptoms, there is no evidence for a unified “disease” called schizophrenia.  Even one of the so-called hallmark features of schizophrenia – auditory hallucinations – has been called into question by traumatologists, who cite evidence that hearing voices is a common feature of PTSD and dissociative disorders.  Professors Romme and Escher's research shows that hearing voices is a common occurrence among patients and non-patients.  Recovering voice hearer Ron Coleman has suggested that the phenomenon of “negative symptoms” is merely a description of people who are lost in their voice hearing experiences and too distracted or despondent to interact effectively with the outside world.  Others have found that “negative symptoms” are the manifestation of profound depression and demoralization, which are also common experiences among those diagnosed with schizophrenia.

What is it that one is recovering from and what does it mean to be in recovery or recovered?  Recovery has become a popular buzzword in mental health, but its definition is also controversial.  For some it means living with symptoms; for others it means elimination of symptoms.  Some use professional treatment including medication and consider themselves recovered because they lead highly functional lives.  Others consider dependence on prescriptions and therapists as indicators that one is not yet fully recovered.  Given that there are new challenges to ways of thinking about the experiences formerly defined as schizophrenic, it is time to reconsider what recovery from these experiences looks like.


Blogs

Social Work & Mental Health

Sectioned A Blog about Mental Health and Mental Healthcare
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Overcoming Schizophrenia

Creative Schizophrenia Blog
Mental Health Social Worker
Bipolar Bimbo
Social Work Blog Directory
Social Work / Social Care and Media (Talented SW bloggers)
Virtual Connections
The New Social Worker Daily
Classroom to Capitol (social woker, activist, blogger)
Latina Lista
A Social Work Blogger (Excellent!) 
        How Much Do Social Workers Earn?
        Secrets for Passing the LMSW Exam
        20 Interview Questions Every Social Worker Needs to Know
The Mental Elf Reliable mental health research policy & guidance
Hack Social Work A blog: Be your best at SW practice!
Bipolar Blog If you are offended by swearing, don't click! 
        Worst Things to Say to a Person with Mental Illness
        Best Things to Say to a Person with Mental Illness
The New Social Worker: Quarterly magazine for SW students & recent grads, focusing on SW careers for those new to the profession
Social Work Links
Social Work Blog Directory

Mental Health, Addiction, etc.

Sectioned A Blog about Mental health and Mental Health Care
The Healthy Place
A Mental Health "Channel."
Brains
Philosophical discussions on the mind.
All in the Mind A blog abt life & beyond through the mind’s eye.
Laura’s Psychology Blog A fun blog about interesting news related to psychology.
World of Psychology A blog found at the popular PsychCentral.
Cognitive Daily Developments within the field of cognitive psychology.
The Reality of Anxiety A popular blog on anxiety & panic disorders. Aimee, the author, suffers from social anxiety and chronicles her journey here.
Beyond Blue Spiritual guide through depression.

Politics

Snopes (reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation)
The Audre Lorde Project
American Wolf (Classic!)
PostWhoreAmerica
Peace Action of Central New York
From a Left Wing
Politico
Daily Kos
Hot Air (conservative blogger)



Miscellaneous

All Over Albany
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Flower Boxes. August, 2012
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Photo by Karen P.
Social Networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing...technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is out greatest asset.
                                                                                    - Aimee Mullins

Deafness Related Links


US: 
Academic/Research/Service-Related

Albany


Among the very best interpreters around: Integral Interpreting
Capital District Deaf Mental Health Consortium
Options Interpreting
Albany County Department of Mental Health
New York Office of Mental Health
State Interagency Council of Developmental Disabilities
ASL of the Capital region
Russ Wolff (Psychologist specializing in deafness and mental health)
Empire State Association of the Deaf

New York City


Rochester
American Sign Language and Interpreting Education Department at NTID
Brain and Vision (Bavelier Lab)
Deaf Rochesterians
Deaf Studies Laboratory (RIT)
Deaf Wellness Center (Rochester, New York)
Sign Language Research Center (University of Rochester)
Sign Language Proficiency Interview

DC
Gallaudet Research Institute
Visual Language and Visual Learning

Massachusetts
Worcester Recovery Center
    INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR DEAF PERSONS
Massachussets Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

West
Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission
Minnesota Chemical Dependency Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals
Cognitive Neurolinguistic Research (Corina Lab)
Sam Simon Foundation (cool!)
Thresholds (Psychiatric Rehab - Deaf Program)

South
Info re: Teaching ASL
The Alabama Mental Health Interpreter Training Project

National
Deaf Linx Fighting Audism through Empowerment and Education (Excellent!)

ADARA
Health Disparities Among Adults With Hearing Loss: United States, 2000-2006
CDC Hearing Loss Stats   or  CDC Hearing Loss Stats PDF
US Census Bureau Fact Finder
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
  Selected Presentations from NASMHPD Commissioners Meeting (2009)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders




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Free Time

November 2016
Boston Liberation Health Group (A framework for Social Justice in Clinical Practice)
Social Work Action Network (UK)
Snopes (reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation)


September 2016
Art Museums NYC
Top Ten Art Museums NYC
Whitney

August 2016 

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writing
Obama's Speech Post Dallas (text only)
Michelle Obama's DNC Convention Speech
 (YouTube)

October 2015
Libra Seeking Balance (Astro blog)
Lee Loos Esoteric Corner (Astro blog)

The Weight (MH & Tennis come together in Mardy Fish's struggle w Anxiety)

September 2015
Eclipse in New York

Social Selection and Social Causation
September Super Moon Eclipse
Horse Names

Hunting Dog Names
Idiom Dictionary

February 2015
Dr Axe (essential oils, DIY recipes, natural cures)

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November 2014

Leslie Feinberg September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014
Russell Brand and his Call for Revolution (Video)
The Dark Side of Creativity

The brain acts fast to reappraise angry faces
Bipolar disorder and the importance of Socializing

February 2013

Harlem World (online magazine)
A warning to college profs from a high school teacher


October 2012

Yoga with Loretta Pyles
Amanda Todd November 27, 1996 - October 10, 2012
STFU, Parents

Six Criticisms of Wilber's Integral Theory

September 2012

Grad Resources (Time Management)
Grad Resources (Emotional Fatigue/Academic Pressure)

April 2012

The Stigma of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
From O.J. to Trayvon

The Human Brain in the Age of Insight
: Eric Kandel

March 2012

Conversion Disorder: What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy
Welfare Queen (good read, blogger)
Depression criteria might include grieving*
What you should be reading in mental health
Updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders*
Fritjof Capra
Center for Ecoliteracy

February 2012

The Bridge (a documentary about suicide; graphic) 

January 2012

Whats Trending in the US
Pendulum Waves
25 Top Tumblr Blogs
Philosophy: Critique: Radicalization: Emancipation
Venus in the Fifth
"The Clearance Aisle: The Best & Most Random Stuff" (blog)  

2011

All That Is Interesting
Reb Online.net

Sky Cloud Sky
LV7Thinks.com
Fire Tom Friedman
Megan Amram on September 11, 2011










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Torch Lake, Michigan. August, 2013

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