Triumph Through Tensions: Mentoring During a Peer Support Practicum

by Hogg Staff | Nov 15, 2016

Mentoring a new peer supporter requires living with tensions. According to theories of organizational complexity, tensions exist in any complex adaptive system. There’s the maxim, “On the one hand…on the other hand” going on all the time. It makes for some interesting...

Understanding Obamacare

by Hogg Staff | Nov 10, 2016

With the recent election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, there is a very real chance that the Affordable Care Act will be gutted or repealed.

Peer Support with an Artistic Flair

by Hogg Staff | Nov 8, 2016

When my teammate Christina arrived on the Austin State Hospital peer support team three years ago, it was clear that she had a theatrical bent. I will never forget her cobalt-blue hair and the feathery dangling earrings she wore the day I met her. She soon introduced...

Episode 28: Jail and Mental Health

by Hogg Staff | Oct 25, 2016

Across the country, people are sitting in jail because they can’t afford bail or are awaiting desperately needed psychiatric services. We talk to Diana Claitor of the Texas Jail Project, who offers her perspective on the issue.

Wallace Award Winner: Postpartum Depression and Women’s Mental Health Literacy

by Hogg Staff | Oct 25, 2016

Sarah Guy, a doctoral student in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, and a 2016 recipient of the Frances Fowler Wallace Award from the Hogg Foundation, has recently completed her dissertation, “Understanding Women’s Perspectives of Mental...