New blog post! I review a dynamic systems model of pursuing happiness. Zerwas and Ford find that the system of happiness and goal pursuit can potentially lead to paradoxical effects. Pursuing happiness too intensely can make you less happy!
Iowa Senate File 538- gender transition procedures related to minors strips providers of Medicaid funding from Sept 18 forward and doesn't allow Medicaid to be used by clients for gender affirming treatment. If a counselor has a transgender client, and has used the gender dysphoria code and many others (7 pages of ICD codes) then they will be retroactively stripped of funding. I am so angry for clients and for providers. As a clinician, I feel so mad that states are telling transgender youth in lower SES that they can't be who they truly are, and now they can't even talk to a counselor. I just can't. @socialwork@Email2TootBot#SocialWork#psych#psychology#iowa#lgbtqia#transgender#transgenderrights#counseling#counselor#therapist#therapy
Christine -- This is horrible! What do you mean by retroactive? Does Iowa Senate File 538 claw back past payments? Cut providers off from Medicaid for past use of those billing codes? Does it totally drop those providers from the Medicaid program?
I'll go read this bill when I can -- clients in a moment to see.
Okay -- quick look -- seems already signed by the governor but not in force yet. Is this tied-up in court?
I'm finally reading Pessoa's The Cognitive-Emotional Brain, and I wrote a brief essay on it. I'm staying pretty high level, even though the book is pretty detailed and technical.
I hope to write a few posts on general thoughts as I read through it. I wish I'd gotten to it in grad school, because there's a lot of thoughtful analysis there!
New blog post on TMS! It's a basic explainer on the technique. I heard from some readers of my post last week that things were a bit "over their heads"--so I wanted to give more background.