Mental Health Professionals Too Afraid to Ask for Help: Stigma & Self-Care with Cassie Brown, LCSW

Help-seeking has a complicated relationship with the stigma of mental illness. And stigma, unfortunately, doesn’t just end at the edge of the helping professions. In this presentation, the research is addressed on how to identify the elements of internalized stigma that may color and impair clinicians’ own help-seeking or help-avoidance behaviors. This presentation also addresses how to plan for and increase appropriate self-care behavior and how to recognize and fight stigma both within and outside the clinical profession.

Cassie E. Brown (pronouns she/her/hers) is a graduate of the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. She has worked with adults with serious mental illness and substance use disorders in an inpatient hospital since 2013, and she previously worked with children with mental illness and trauma. She provides training on topics ranging from LGBTQ+ and gender diversity to self-care.

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