Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine

Helena Hansen MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology, New York University, NY, NY

Structural Competency and Racial Health Disparities: Rethinking Pre-Health Education.- Structural Competence in a Longitudinal Medical School Curriculum in Humanities and Social Sciences.- The Walking Classroom: Social Medicine on the Streets of Baltimore.- "This Ain't No Tool, This Ain't no Kit": Teaching Structural Competency Through An Embodied Pedagogy in The Wake of Narrative Medicine.- Bringing Structural Competency to first-year medical students: a UCSF case study.- Rad Med's Structural Competency Training for Clinicians.- Collaborative Fieldwork on Homelessness, Severe Mental Illness and Incarceration: Cross-Training in Medicine and the Social Sciences.- The NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System: An Action-Oriented Collaboration among the Medical Students, Community-Based Organizations, Public Health Officials, and the Legal Sector in New York City.- Engaging Psychiatry Residents with Communities and with Mental Health Peers.- Beyond Humility: Relational Politics and Lessons from the University of California PRIME - LC program.- Yale Department of Psychiatry Structural Competency Community Initiative (YSCCI).- Community Health Workers as Accelerators of Community Engagement and Structural Competency in Medical Centers.- Teaching Urbanism for Health.- Partnerships for collective recovery in an immigrant/refugee community following massive trauma.- Urban Housing and Asthma - An Example of the Impact of Medical-Legal Partnership in Keeping Children Healthy.- From Punishment to Public Health: Cross-Sector Policy Innovations in Law Enforcement and Mental Health.- From Policy to Partnership: How Allied Healthcare Workers Advance Structural Competency.- Physicians as Policy Advocates: from the bedside to the state house.

"The book would be a worthwhile addition to any collection on cultural competency; diversity, equity, and inclusion; public health; social determinants of health; or health professions education. Hansen and Metzl's Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine: A Case Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health will, I hope, inspire further development and implementation of structural competency perhaps involving collaborations with health sciences libraries and librarians." (Gregory Laynor, Journal of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 109 (2), April, 2021)