Hill Crest Social Worker Helps “Wake Up” Employee State of Mind

When working with child and adolescent populations, it is imperative to have an open mind about how to approach their behaviors, according to Hill Crest practitioner Jamie Sellers. As part of employee orientation at Hill Crest Behavioral Health Services, each staff member attends a “State of Mind” presentation led by Sellers, which encourages employees to tune into their own intuition to help them recognize the resources they have to effectively help others.

Once people begin to understand the role ‘state of mind’ plays in their everyday life experience, they naturally start to show improvements in many areas of their lives,” said Sellers. “Shedding light on this often invisible factor wakes people up and their listening, rapport, communication, creativity and overall enjoyment of life generally improves.”

According to Sellers, once people understand the role that their state of mind plays in the everyday experience of life, they learn how to access more common sense knowledge and realize that intrinsically they have all the skills they need to help others. Each individual, Sellers says, has different views and ideas that impact others at some point.

To help employees adjust to their new roles at Hill Crest, the presentation also encompasses listening skills, building rapport, effective communication, stress relief and burn-out prevention.

Sellers, a licensed clinical social worker, joined Hill Crest in 1999 and earned a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in social work from the University of Alabama.

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