Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine
A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health
Editors: Hansen, Helena, Metzl, Jonathan (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the “structural competency” framework to reduce inequalities in health. The essays describe on-the-ground ways that clinicians, educators, and activists craft structural interventions to enhance health outcomes, student learning, and community organizing around issues of social justice in health and healthcare. Each chapter of the book begins with a case study that illuminates a competency in reorienting clinical and public health practice toward community, institutional and policy level intervention based on alliances with social agencies, community organizations and policy makers. Written by authors who are trained in both clinical and social sciences, the chapters cover pedagogy in classrooms and clinics, community collaboration, innovative health promotion approaches in non-health sectors and in public policies, offering a view of effective care as structural intervention and a road map toward its implementation.
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.
- About the authors
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Helena Hansen MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology,
New York University, NY, NYJonathan 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
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Teaching and Testing Structural Competency in Pre-health Undergraduate Classrooms
Pages 3-14
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The Walking Classroom and the Community Clinic: Teaching Social Medicine Beyond the Medical School
Pages 15-25
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This Ain’t No Tool, This Ain’t No Toolbox
Pages 27-33
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Reflections on the Intersection of Student Activism and Structural Competency Training in a New Medical School Curriculum
Pages 35-51
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The Structural Competency Working Group: Lessons from Iterative, Interdisciplinary Development of a Structural Competency Training Module
Pages 53-74
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine
- Book Subtitle
- A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health
- Editors
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- Helena Hansen
- Jonathan Metzl
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-10525-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-10525-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-10524-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIX, 230
- Number of Illustrations
- 8 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
- Topics
