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Expert Q&A

Reevaluating Diagnosis Criteria for Minoritized Populations

October 1, 2024

QA2_Carmen Black_headshot.jpg Carmen G. Black, MD, MHS

Vice Chair of Education, Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

Dr. Black has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Dr. Black discusses reevaluating diagnostic criteria for minoritized populations, emphasizing how structural racism in medicine contributes to misdiagnoses and disparities in mental health care. She explores approaches for clinicians to provide more equitable treatment by considering cultural context and addressing unconscious biases in psychiatric assessments.

Expert Q&A

Disparities in Dementia Diagnosis

October 1, 2024

Nicolás Pérez Palmer, MD

Nicolás Pérez Palmer, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Director of Clinical Research Services, Latino Community, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit; Integrated Firm Director, Psychiatry, VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

Dr. Pérez Palmer has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Dr. Pérez Palmer explores health disparities in geriatric psychiatry, focusing on how social determinants affect dementia diagnosis and treatment among underrepresented populations, while addressing strategies to improve equitable care for older adults.

Psychoanalysis Looks Inward

July 29, 2024

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

The Holmes Report looked at racial, social, and economic biases in psychoanalysis. Beverly Stoute, MD, shares the findings.

Race and Unconscious Bias

July 22, 2024

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

Beverly Stoute, MD, shares research on the origins of unconscious racial bias.

Psychotherapy, Enactments, and Race

July 15, 2024

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

We talk with Beverly Stoute, MD, about how unconscious racial biases play out between therapist and patient.

RESEARCH UPDATE

Risk Factors for Adverse Childhood Experiences

February 13, 2024

Dee Rapposelli

Dee Rapposelli. Ms. Rapposelli has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Findings of a groundbreaking study exploring the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among diverse demographic groups.

Expert Q&A

End-of-Life Discussions With Patients With Advanced Dementia

October 31, 2023

Ruth Palan Lopez, PhD, GNP, FAAN

Ruth Palan Lopez, PhD, GNP, FAAN. Jacques Moore Endowed Professor of Gerontologic Nursing; Associate Dean for Research in the School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA.

Dr. Lopez has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

How can clinicians improve end of life care and minimize disparities by regions and race? Dr. Lopez identifies ways clinicians can build trust with minoritized populations. She also shares her 6 Ms approach to making patients with dementia more comfortable.

Racism and Psychiatry

May 1, 2022

Kali D. Cyrus, MD, MPH

Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Physician-activist in private practice, Washington, DC.

Dr. Cyrus has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Race and identity are hot topics, even for White people, so psychiatrists need to find a better way to talk about it. The pandemic brought the dynamics of oppression and inequality to the forefront in medicine. Racism is not just happening in the news, the protests, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Cultural Competence: Impact on Clinical Care

March 12, 2021

Fagie Mandel Greenberg, M.Ed., CDT.

Fagie Mandel Greenberg, M.Ed., CDT. Dyslexia and behavior specialist, EdMind LLC; Professor of Literacy and Special Education, Kean University, NJ. Ms. Mandel Greenberg has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Don’t be pressured into medicating your way out of cultural problems. What are the nuts and bolts of offering culturally competent care to children and adolescents? This article is a how-to with a case example that demonstrates a respectful approach to helping families caught between dominant and different cultural understandings.