North Carolina Psychological Association (NCPA)/Spring2021

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CE Workshop #2: Topic: #2: Best of the Free Resources for Untangling Mood and Anxiety Problems: Finding, using, and improving our toolkits

Presenter: Eric A. Youngstrom, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC-Chapel Hill

Executive Director, Helping Give Away Psychological Science (HGAPS.org)

Apr 23, 2021 09:00 AM

Overview:
People are most likely to seek help for themselves when they are distressed. Yet there are many factors that can contribute to the problem. Providers strive to make a formulation that resonates with the client--offering understanding and hope--while also guiding treatment. This is challenging, especially when clients often lack complete insight or words for the issues themselves. Well designed assessments can help scan for common problems, then help probe pain points to clarify formulation and goals, and track whether the work together is making progress. Ideally, tools would have optimal length, be easy to find and use, and available in languages and formats that are convenient, and free to use. Many such options exist, but they can be hard to find because they have no marketing budget. Helping Give Away Psychological Science (HGAPS.org) is a North Carolina nonprofit partnering with NCPA, UNC-Chapel Hill, and professional societies to better disseminate the best of the free tools and make them easier to use in practice. This workshop uses clinical cases to show how the HGAPS toolkit could fit into our clinical work in a variety of settings, enhancing things from screening and risk assessment to formulation, goal setting, and monitoring process, progress, outcomes, and maintenance of gains. The toolkit includes many patient-reported outcome measures and scales that tie in with EPIC and other medical records or measurement-based care, but also can be used outside of these frameworks. The HGAPS assessment toolkit has doubled in size over the past three years and is continuing to grow rapidly. At the beginning of 2021, it has 200+ web pages (600+ pages if printed as a book), 300+ PDFs, 70 measures with free automated scoring, and it has been accessed more than 300,000 times. The workshop includes opportunities to see how the toolkit can reveal “plot twists,” detecting key issues that the client did not or could not articulate in the first session. There will also be opportunities for feedback, suggestions, and team building to adapt the toolkit to better fit your work and serve the North Carolina Community.

Biography:
Eric Youngstrom, PhD, is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is also the Acting Director of the Center for Excellence in Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder. (continued on the next page) He earned his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Delaware, and he completed his predoctoral internship training at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic before joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Youngstrom is a licensed psychologist, a teacher, President and Past-President of Divisions 5 & 53 of APA, and a parent of two daughters who are now thinking about "adulting" and careers. He married another psychologist (a romance from freshman year!) who has been his foil and "Reality Fairy" throughout his professional journey. He is passionate about bringing the best information to the people who would benefit. This focus has transformed his teaching and research. He is the Co-Founder and President of Helping Give Away Psychological Science (HGAPS), a nonprofit that he will talk about in detail.

Slides:
Here are the slides from the talk. These have a Creative Commons license, CC BY 4.0. You can read more about that here or here. The gist is that you are free to:


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Learning Objectives:

 * 1) Identify three advantages to using Wiki for disseminating information about psychology resources
 * 2) Find, bookmark, and know how to use more than 50 free assessments that can be used in practice
 * 3) Be able to use Creative Commons licensing to make it easier to share and keep access to our tools and materials
 * 4) Use TRIP Database to find updated practice guidelines and  evidence maps for anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder

Q&A from Best of the Free Resources for Untangling Mood and Anxiety Problems: Finding, Using, and Improving Our Toolkit
Friday, April 23, 2021

Mark S. 09:52 AM

How much does money affect the results....e.g., pharma money?

Eric Youngstrom 10:55 AM

Great question! Less than I would have thought. The "pharma advantage" is more because they have been adding stuff to FDA open databases, not directly due to advertising. Wikipedia is quite vigilant about hunting down paid efforts to hijack pages for commercial interests. It still can happen, but less than I thought, and easy to fix quickly.

But the pharma advantage with Wikidata is use, because most psychology journals are paywalled.

Mark S. 10:45 AM

Can you explain how to find the info-graphics again?

Eric Youngstrom 10:53 AM

A bunch are linked to http://hgaps.org, and more are on Wikiversity pages. If you follow HGAPS on Twitter or Instagram, you'll get new ones as we share them.

Judy KP., PhD 09:52 AM

Curious how the quality of articles was determined and by whom.

(Spoke about this) – Democratically, with a rubric (by humans, not AI)…

Mary E. 10:45 AM

I have 2 questions. 1) are there any plans to add instruments for younger children to the assessment? 2) I work in integrated behavioral health in primary care peds and family practice. Any interest in talking about how to link in to these settings? In particular, I work in a Federally Qualified Health Care Center where we slap the best band aids we can on the issues our patients present. No need to answer here to everyone. My email is mary.evers.phd@gmail.com.

Mark S. 12:01 PM

What data is gathered when someone uses an assessment? Any confidentiality issues we need to inform the client about?

Dr. Leslie F. 12:01 PM

If you have patient use the app for assessment/screening, do you have access to their responses? If so, is it securely accessed? If not, do they just then communicate to you their scores?

Annotated Bibliography
Friedberg, R. D., Nakamura, B. J., Winkelspect, C., Tebben, E., Miller, A., & Beidas, R. S. (2018). Disruptive Innovations to Facilitate Better Dissemination and Delivery of Evidence-Based Practices: Leaping Over the Tar Pit. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 3(2), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2018.1427009

Youngstrom, E. A., Hinshaw, S. P., Stefana, A., Chen, J., Michael, K., *Van Meter, A., Maxwell, V., Michalak, E., Choplin, E. G., Smith, L. T., Vincent, C., Loeb, A., & Vieta, E. (2020). Working with bipolar disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic: Both crisis and opportunity. WikiJournal of Medicine. QID: Q99676980 Preprint: psyarxiv.com/wg4b. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wg4bj

Youngstrom, E.A., & Cotuna, A. (2020). Helping Give Away Psychological Science: Putting information and resources where the public and professionals can find and use them. North Carolina Medical Journal, 81, 117-119. https://doi.org/0029-2559/2020/81210

Youngstrom, E.A., Van Meter, A.R., Frazier, T.W., Hunsley, J., Prinstein, M.J., Ong, M., & Youngstrom, J.K. (2017). Evidence-Based Assessment as an integrative model for applying psychological science to guide the voyage of treatment. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 24, 331-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpsp.12207.

Youngstrom, E. A., Choukas-Bradley, S., Calhoun, C. D., & Jensen-Doss, A. (2015). Clinical Guide to the Evidence-Based Assessment Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 22(1), 20-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2013.12.005