Hi Weldon. Sorry I've been hunkered down and not really reading much. A couple non-sequiturs: Mimi Parker died the other day, sadly, which belatedly drew my attention back to her band Low. They apparently didn't like the term "slowcore" and actually did some things that wouldn't qualify for the characterization, but most of their stuff would. Worth checking out if you don't know them.
There are some weird regulatory shenanigans going on in my state involving the various licenses in my general field. Essentially, it looks like a focused effort to insert libertarian philosophy into occupational licensing, first order of business being using the national mental health crisis to justify significantly undermining training etc. standards, bolstered by bad arguments, bad science, and abetted by the field's unfortunate preoccupation with "empirically validated treatments" that they're going to pretend could be taught to/delivered by about anyone, or (I predict) a clever phone app. All of this also conveniently distracts focus from all the social/economic factors contributing, instead reframing everything as a big-state repressive regulatory system. Frankly, this is the beginning of something I've seen coming for a long time, and dearly hoped I was wrong about.
I'll let you know more when I can, but I'm very, very interested in any further information/articles your happen across focused on the many factors contributing to widespread mental health problems that aren't exclusively not enough providers. You're better informed than I am about all of that, and I'm apparently better informed than they majority of my colleagues, thanks partly to you.
So for better or worse, you're having a soon-to-be-demonstrable impact on this area, and I really appreciate it. There will be some good material coming from all of this.
More to follow over the course of the next couple weeks.
For what it's worth, AOC didn't seem upbeat about the results.
A musical suggestion: "The Other Side", Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy (1992).
Hi Weldon. Sorry I've been hunkered down and not really reading much. A couple non-sequiturs: Mimi Parker died the other day, sadly, which belatedly drew my attention back to her band Low. They apparently didn't like the term "slowcore" and actually did some things that wouldn't qualify for the characterization, but most of their stuff would. Worth checking out if you don't know them.
There are some weird regulatory shenanigans going on in my state involving the various licenses in my general field. Essentially, it looks like a focused effort to insert libertarian philosophy into occupational licensing, first order of business being using the national mental health crisis to justify significantly undermining training etc. standards, bolstered by bad arguments, bad science, and abetted by the field's unfortunate preoccupation with "empirically validated treatments" that they're going to pretend could be taught to/delivered by about anyone, or (I predict) a clever phone app. All of this also conveniently distracts focus from all the social/economic factors contributing, instead reframing everything as a big-state repressive regulatory system. Frankly, this is the beginning of something I've seen coming for a long time, and dearly hoped I was wrong about.
I'll let you know more when I can, but I'm very, very interested in any further information/articles your happen across focused on the many factors contributing to widespread mental health problems that aren't exclusively not enough providers. You're better informed than I am about all of that, and I'm apparently better informed than they majority of my colleagues, thanks partly to you.
So for better or worse, you're having a soon-to-be-demonstrable impact on this area, and I really appreciate it. There will be some good material coming from all of this.
More to follow over the course of the next couple weeks.