Exploring the Social Determinants of Mental Health
A look at the theme for the 2022 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.
The 2022 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting is focusing on the social determinants of mental health, which have become increasingly relevant to the APA, the psychiatric community, and well beyond. Here are just a few of the expert presentations featured at the Annual Meeting.
Youth Cyberbullying: Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, but Cyberbullying Can Shred Souls
How pervasive is cyberbullying, and how is it affecting Gen-Z? This presentation discusses the impact of cyberbullying on youth mental health and the barriers to prioritizing this topic during visits with our patients.
Chair: Stephanie Alexis Garayalde, MD
Presenters: Anish Ranjan Dube, MD; Rana Elmaghraby, MD; Gabrielle L. Shapiro, MD
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2022
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Rooms 391-392, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Climate change is a major social determinant of mental health. How has it affected rural and indigenous communities? This presentation discusses several areas of concern impacting these communities, including poverty, poor housing, and declining food production.
Chair: Mary Hasbah Roessel, MD
Presenter: Edward Joseph Neidhardt, MD
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2022
Time: 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. CDT
Location: Room 295, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Structural Racism: Biopsychosocial Consequences
Racism is embedded in the history and culture of America, and it affects people both individually and collectively. This presentation discusses how psychiatry can play a major role in addressing institutional racism, its perceptual beliefs and cultural consequences, and resistance to behavioral change.
Introduction: Danielle Hairston, MD
Presenter: William Bradford Lawson, MD, PhD
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. CDT
Location: Rooms 275-277, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Our Women Patients: Clear Lessons for Turbulent Times
COVID-19, the MeToo movement, and the increasingly strict limitations on abortion have had a significant impact on women and their mental health. This presentation explores the status of these challenges in May 2022, and how we, as psychiatrists, can help our women patients.
Introduction: Catherine C. Crone, MD; Steven Samuel Sharfstein, MD
Presenter: Nada Logan Stotland, MD, MPH
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Room 290, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients
What ethical issues are raised in our clinical encounters with LGBTQ patients? This presentation will discuss historical psychiatric attitudes toward LGBTQ patients, followed by some common clinical questions raised by LGBTQ patients today, the origins of homosexuality and transgender expression, therapist self-disclosure, and controversies surrounding treatment of transgender children.
Chair: Jack Drescher, MD
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Room 296, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Human Trafficking Survivors
How can clinicians address the mental health needs of human trafficking survivors in a way that is trauma-informed, patient-centered, and culturally humble? This presentation will discuss the issues surrounding the public health issue of human trafficking and how collaboration can help provide for the medical and psychosocial needs of trafficked individuals.
Chair: Lujain Alhajji, MD
Presenters: Vanessa Padilla; Maria Hadjikyriakou, MD; Mitchell Rovner, MD
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Room 297, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
How can psychiatrists help divert individuals with serious mental illness out of the criminal justice system? This presentation will discuss the justice system and its relevance to psychiatrists, as well as the ways psychiatrists and judges can work together and engage the justice-involved community to help these individuals.
Presenters: Evelyn Stratton, JD; Zachary Lenane, MD, MPH; Thad Tatum; Michael Kelly, MD
Date: Monday, May 23, 2022
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Room 293, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Social Determinants of Substance Use Disorders During COVID Time
Although genetic, biological, and developmental factors may contribute to the propensity to use drugs, environmental factors within social domains also impact an individual’s risk for taking drugs, inclination to seek treatment for their drug use, and likelihood of relapse. This presentation will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on substance use disorders, related health care disparities, and mitigation strategies.
Chair: Nora D. Volkow, MD
Date: Monday, May 23, 2022
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Rooms 278-282, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Physician burnout is a public health crisis that negatively affects the lives and health of physicians, their patients, and health care systems and organizations. This presentation discusses the impact of COVID-19, as well as the issues that need to be addressed to eradicate physician burnout, including long working hours, inefficient and excessive workflows, untenable patient-staffing ratios, and lack of organizational support structure.
Chair: Constance Guille, MD
Presenters: Srijan Sen, MD, PhD; Elena Frank, PhD; Rashi Aggarwal, MD
Date: Monday, May 23, 2022
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Rooms 391-392, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
HIV: A Model of Health Inequities
Although progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection, many individuals remain at risk for infection and in need of testing, treatment, and care for related neuropsychiatric and psychosocial sequelae. This presentation discusses the structural and social factors contributing to HIV-related health inequities, strategies for addressing these inequities, and the role psychiatrists can play in assisting the patient populations who experience the greatest burden.
Presenter: Kenneth Bryan Ashley, MD
Date: Monday, May 23, 2022
Time: 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. CDT
Location: Room 296, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
The 2022 APA Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from May 21 to 25. We look forward to seeing you there! In the meantime, see the full schedule of 300+ educational sessions at this year’s meeting here, and read more about the social determinants of mental health at psychiatrictimes.com.
This Is the Water: The Social Determinants of Mental Health and the Future of Psychiatry
Kenneth S. Thompson, MD; Allan Tasman, MD
Radical Hope for the Social Determinants of Mental Health
H. Steven Moffic, MD
Social Determinants and Clinical Realities
Renato D. Alarcón, MD, MPH
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