Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine (eBook)

Helena Hansen MD, PhDAssistant Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology,New York University, NY, NY Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhDFrederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and SocietyProfessor of PsychiatryVanderbilt University300 Calhoun HallNashville, TN

Introduction 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 society Edgar 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 communities Jack 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 Lives III: 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 Ernie Drucker and Gary Belkin: From Punishment to Public Health: multidisciplinary collaborations to divert people from arrest to mental health care Alethia Jones: Healthcare worker unions as agents of change - the story of 1199 Julie Netherland: Physicians as advocates at the Drug Policy Alliance