Dissemination is a strange thing for me. On the one hand, I’ve never been great at “tooting my own horn” as it were, so it’s not really been the most foremost thought when thinking about my research and the project that will come out of it (an assessment tool for online mental health course creation\/evaluation). At the same time, my current sponsor does have valid concerns, due to the nature of the mental health arena, that will ultimately limit where and how I disseminate. In particular, the more that I lean into data regarding the sponsor’s clients, the less likely it will be that I can publish anything at all. The practical nature of this resource may not lean as much towards being appropriate for many journals (though this may be an underestimation and misunderstanding on the journal front).<\/p>\n
As mentioned, the idea is to create an assessment tool for online mental health course creation\/evaluation. Currently, there are long waiting times for those seeking mental health assistance, and I am assisting a mental health practitioner to create and publish online learning resources. It is hoped that creating online courses and resources will allow clients for mental health services receive a form of help and guidance in the interim, while waiting for in-person and\/or group therapy. This resource will allow mental health practitioners to ensure that the courses they create meet their clients where they are while maximizing therapeutic and information retention aspects.<\/p>\n
In thinking about how best to proceed, then, I would like to take what I create and put it up in some form on the web, possibly as an OER. That would allow it to be taken, used and adapted beyond what I create, allowing mental health professionals to apply it within their own contexts. Internally at work it will be helpful to present a professional development workshop for the social workers, clinicians and other staff to learn how the tool works and how to apply it within the courses that they both create and facilitate. Once a workshop is created, however, it should be straight forward to adapt the workshop to address other mental health practitioners; The more workshops that can be held, the more courses can ideally be created out of this, ideally allowing more people to receive supports for mental health and mental illness during a vulnerable time.<\/p>\n
At the same time, there are benefits beyond the daily practice of mental health, and with the rise in mental health concerns across academia. In this case it might also be helpful to speak with someone like eCampusOntario<\/a> or ALT<\/a> to either present workshops there or to discuss how these concepts might be adapted to ensure online courses created consider mental health accessibility and support natively. This would mean that the end resource would need to be accessible to both mental health practitioners (therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, clinicians, etc) and academics (faculty, facilitators, professors, instructional designers, etc). Presenting this both on a website and through professional development workshops would ideally allow those who need it most to not only get it in their hands quickly, but also learn how to apply it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dissemination is a strange thing for me. On the one hand, I’ve never been great at “tooting my own horn” as it were, so it’s not really been the most foremost thought when thinking about my research and the project that will come out of it (an assessment tool for online mental health course creation\/evaluation). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt622"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0157\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}