Mind On Mental Health

The Mind On Mental Health Podcast explores a variety of mental health and substance use related topics in under thirty minutes. Topics such as how to utilize positive coping skills, manage triggers and how to change your thought process are discussed. Each podcast features interviews with therapists and psychiatrists from Penn Medicine - Princeton House Behavioral Health in Central New Jersey.

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Episodes

Substance Use by the Numbers

Wednesday Sep 27, 2023

Wednesday Sep 27, 2023

There were more than 100,000 overdose deaths in 2022 in the US. So far this year, 2023, there have been 15,878 overdose deaths in New Jersey. One Princeton House therapist was directly affected when she lost a loved one. Join Andy Dean, LCSW as he interviews Sarah Devries, Senior Therapist and Team Coordinator, and Sarah Carstens, Clinical Director for Addiction Services, of Princeton House Behavioral Health. Carstens and Devries are both Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselors.
 
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Wednesday Jun 21, 2023

Loneliness can have the same effect on the body as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, and yet, there’s no place to put a Surgeon General’s warning. Host Andy Dean speaks with Jamie Winters, LCSW, senior primary therapist at Princeton House Behavioral Health, about how to address loneliness and purposefully interact with other people.
 
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Wednesday Jun 14, 2023

“I don’t see color,” say many people about their co-workers.
“You are so articulate.”
“Is that your real hair?”
Microaggressive comments might be said without malicious intent, but they have an impact on the receiver. Therapist Nicole Glover speaks with Andy Dean about how she coaches her clients to respond to micro aggressions in the workplace, using the skills of DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy. Plus, they discuss why receiving microaggression is exhausting.
Nicole Glover, LPC, LCADC, is clinical manager of the Women’s Program at Princeton House Behavioral Health and owner of Restoring Pieces, a private practice serving primarily people of color.
 
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Wednesday Jun 07, 2023

What’s a bigger divide between people in a workplace—being a man working with all women, or being a person of color working with all White people?What’s code switching and what is its impact on the person who uses code switching?
We continue our exploration of racial trauma with host Andy Dean and guest Nicole Glover.
 
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Wednesday May 31, 2023

Now that host Andy Dean and guest Nicole Glover have defined what racialtrauma is, in this episode they will talk about its effect on mental health. Depression, anxiety, and acute stress can result from racial trauma.  Listen to hear how and why.
 
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What is Racial Trauma?

Wednesday May 24, 2023

Wednesday May 24, 2023

Given everything that has been going on in recent years, racial trauma is a term that most people have heard. But what does it mean, exactly? Host Andy Dean starts a series on this important topic with Nicole Glover, LPC, LCADC, clinical manager of Princeton House’s Women’s Program in Hamilton, andowner of Restoring Peaces, a private practice where she works mainly with people of color. They will define and discuss the impact of systemic racism, interpersonal racism, and internal racism, and talk about how you can take responsibility for educating yourself on racial trauma.
 
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Wednesday May 17, 2023

Cultural issues, immigrant status, and religion inform all of us.  Join host Andy Dean, LCSW, and Jawad Bayat, Associate Director for Clinical Pastoral Education at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, as they discuss mental health in the Muslim community, the hopeful view of all illness in the Koran/Quran, and ways to avoid “spiritual bypassing” for both the therapist and the person seeking help.
 
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Wednesday May 10, 2023

This week we are examining the many ways that spirituality and mental health overlap.  Andy and guest Imam Jawad Bayat discuss the importance of relationships, mindfulness and self-talk and how they affect mental health as well as spirituality.  Jawad works with the staff and clients of Penn MedicinePrinceton House Behavioral Health in his role as Certified Educator and Associate Director for Clinical Pastoral Education.
 
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Thursday May 04, 2023

Spirituality is belief in something bigger than yourself. It’s not necessarily related to religion. Learn how Princeton House Behavioral Health Chaplain Jawad Bayat uses a spirituality group to make the concept of spirituality accessible to every person seeking mental health treatment. Bayat is one of the few hospital chaplains who is also an imam, but his groups are for anyone and are a forum for connection and healing.
 
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Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

What do you do when the child in your life worries about the world? We’ve had no shortage of tragedies, both natural and human-made over the past few years, and kids of all ages have access to an unrelenting news feed via social media, the news, and peers. Andy speaks with Dr. Chirayu Parikh, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with Princeton House Behavioral Health, about how to help your child (and yourself) cope with scary news.
 
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