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Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine, 1st ed. 2019
A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health
Coordinators: Hansen Helena, Metzl Jonathan M.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine:
230 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine is a cutting-edge resource for psychiatrists, primary care physicians, addiction medicine specialists, emergency medicine specialists, nurses, social workers, public health practitioners, and other clinicians working toward equality in health.
The promise of structural competency and how to promote it
Helena Hansen and Jonathan Metzl
This introduction will describe the concept of structural competency, its motivation, goals, and approach.
Cases of Structural Competency In Action
I: Classroom and in-clinic structural intervention
Jonathan Metzl: Vanderbilt's pre-health curriculum in structural racism
Seth Holmes and Kelly Knight: UCSF/UC Berkeley structural competency curriculum and Rad Med actions
Philippe Bourgois and Joel Braslow: UCLA social medicine program and MD-Ph.D. training in the social sciences
Jeremy Greene: Johns Hopkins curriculum in science and societyEdgar Rivera Colon and Sayantani DasGupta: The Columbia Narrative Medicine Program and narrative humility
II: Community collaborations
Helena Hansen: NYU public psychiatry in residency training
as clinical engagement with communitiesJack Geiger: Community health assessments at Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Michael Montoya: Knowing your place structurally: Lessons from The University of California PRIME program.
Sue Estroff: Community members and peers as medical school instructors at UNC
Robert Rohrbaugh: Yale School of Medicine's curriculum in the community
Kamini Doobay: NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System - the product of medical student leadership/White Coats for Black LivesIII: Non-health sectors
Mindy Fullilove: diagnosing and treating racially fractured cities - urban (re)design as health intervention
Jack Saul: collective recovery through community organizations and schools in a time of racial/ethnic trauma
Mallory Curran: Medical-legal partnerships: advocacy with landlords, entitlement programs and in courts
IV: Policy Advocacy
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rnie Drucker and Gary Belkin: From Punishment to Public Health: multidisciplinary collaborations to divert people from arrest to mental health careAlethia Jones: Healthcare worker unions as agents of change - the story of 1199
Julie Netherland: Physicians as advocates at the Drug Policy AllianceAssistant Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology,
New York University, NY, NY
Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society
Professor of Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University
300 Calhoun Hall
Nashville, TN
Each chapter begins with a case study that illustrates a structural competency in practice
Includes an appendix with curricular materials and evaluation tools used by leading structural competency practitioners
Written by experts with cross-training in clinical and social sciences