Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: The ASPECT Program
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Julie Grutzmacher, Director of Patient Advocacy and Population Health Initiatives at Prevent Blindness, answers the question: What is the ASPECT program?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Therapist and Client Relationship
Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Melissa Taussig, answers the question: What roles does empathy play in working with the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Vision Loss and Therapy
Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Melissa Taussig, answers the question: How do you approach therapy with the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Cultural Experiences Relating to Blindness
Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Melissa Taussig, answers the question: What are examples of ableist experiences relating to blindness?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Each Story is Unique
Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Melissa Taussig, answers the question: What would you highlight for therapists working with the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Avoiding Ableism in Therapy
Clinical psychologist, Joe Behen, answers the question: How can therapists avoid ableism in therapy?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO)
Clinical psychologist, Joe Behen, answers the question: What has your personal journey with Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO) been like?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Fear and Vision Loss
Clinical psychologist, Joe Behen, answers the question: How does fear affect therapeutic relationships?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Understanding Patient Anxiety
Clinical psychologist, Joe Behen, answers the question: What advice do you have for your colleagues about understanding vision anxiety?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Shared Lived Experience (Part 2)
Clinical social worker Jenelle Landgraf answers the question: Why is it important for therapists to know about disability history?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Shared Lived Experience (Part 1)
Clinical social worker Jenelle Landgraf answers the question: What has been the benefit of being a blind therapist and counseling blind or low vision individuals?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Disability Affirming Therapy
Clinical social worker Jenelle Landgraf answers the question: What is disability affirming therapy?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Biases and Therapeutic Practice
Licensed Professional Counselor, Jeanetta Price, answers the question: What biases did you have to overcome to become a therapist?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Planting Seeds of Hope
Licensed Professional Counselor, Jeanetta Price, answers the question: Why do you share your story about blindness, grief, and identity? How can therapy be a catalyst?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Blind Mental Health Professionals
Licensed Professional Counselor, Jeanetta Price, answers the question: Why does representation matter? How are blind and visually impaired therapists change agents?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Grief and Healing with Family
Licensed Professional Counselor, Jeanetta Price, answers the question: What advice do you have for family members of the blind and visually impaired community, as well as professionals working with the community?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Licensed Professional Counselor, Jeanetta Price, answers the question: What advice do you have for people who are new to sight loss or blindness?
Mental Wellness and Vision Loss: Why Mental Wellness Matters for Vision Loss
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Julie Grutzmacher, Director of Patient Advocacy and Population Health Initiatives at Prevent Blindness, answers the question: Why did Prevent Blindness create the Mental Wellness and Vision Loss series?