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Physicians leading the charge: Dismantling stigma around behavioral health conditions and treatment



Physicians leading the charge: Dismantling stigma around behavioral health conditions and treatment

► View the AMA’s Behavioral Health Integration webinar series: https://bit.ly/3JwiSRU
Speakers share examples of how physicians and other non-physician clinicians of the care-team can be leaders in breaking the stigma barrier and normalizing treatment for people with mental health conditions.

Speakers:
• Sourav Sengupta, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry & pediatrics; director of training–child and adolescent psychiatry, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• Tiffany Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd, FACOG, professor of obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and population & quantitative health sciences; vice chair, Dept. Ob/Gyn; director, Research Division, Dept. Ob/Gyn; co-director, Maternity Center; medical director, Lifeline4Moms; engagement director, MCPAP for Moms
• Nancy Byatt, DO, MBA, MS, FACLP, medical director, Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program

Moderator:
• Mary Giliberti, JD, executive vice president of policy, Mental Health America

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:53 About the BHI Collaborative
2:02 Speaker Introductions
3:33 Stigma = Discrimination, Shame and Blame
8:43 Race/Ethnicity, Screening Data, and How Health Care Systems Fail Communities
10:36 COVID and Mental Health
12:40 Navigating Stigma in Behavioral Health Integration
16:57 Stigma Presents as Avoidance
20:09 Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices
21:08 Addressing Mental Health Issues Throughout the Health Care System
22:59 Workforce Education & Training
23:55 Stigma Against Perinatal Mental Health Conditions
26:55 Barriers to Perinatal Mental Health Treatment
28:35 MCPAP For Moms
30:52 Building Front-Line Provider Capacity
32:23 Trauma-Informed Care and Strengths-Based Approach
33:28 The Perinatal Period and Mental Health Screening
35:15 Perinatal Mental Health as a Public Health Problem and Universal Screening Recommendations
37:34 Trainings and Toolkits for Addressing Perinatal Mental Health
39:15 Proactive Practice-Level Interventions to Destigmatize Mental Health
41:37 Implementation Protocols
42:58 Social Determinants of Health
43:52 Increasing Front-Line Provider Capacity
44:32 How Can Physicians Deal With Stigma in the Profession?
48:08 Group Care vs. Individual Care
49:37 2 Evaluations During Pregnancy vs. 1 Evaluation (Screening)
51:04 HIPPA
52:16 Unconscious Bias and Stigma
55:35 Burnout, Depression, Stigma, and Physician License Renewal
57:38 How to Diagnosis Severity of Mental Health Disease From Screening

Presented by the Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Collaborative, this webinar series will enable physicians to sustain a collaborative, integrated, whole-person, and equitable approach to physical and behavioral health care in their practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

► Full transcript: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/behavioral-health-integration-webinar-series-stigma

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  2. @haroldmaio407 on

    Calling it stigma disarms the reality: prejudice.

    It is a widely prcticed technique. "If I call it stigma, I do not have to acknowledge it as prejudice ." The most intense example of that prejduice occurred of course in WWII Germany. Rape/stigma reigned in the US for generations before we were willing to recognize the realities of sexual assault, the violence , the violaton.

    Doctors , heeding the call for the stigma of AIDS, stood by, choosing not to address it as a medical issue as thousandds died before coming to their senses and the ethic of thsir profession.

    Harold A Maio

  3. @americanmedicalassociation on

    0:00 Introduction
    0:53 About the BHI Collaborative
    2:02 Speaker Introductions
    3:33 Stigma = Discrimination, Shame and Blame
    8:43 Race/Ethnicity, Screening Data, and How Health Care Systems Fail Communities
    10:36 COVID and Mental Health
    12:40 Navigating Stigma in Behavioral Health Integration
    16:57 Stigma Presents as Avoidance
    20:09 Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices
    21:08 Addressing Mental Health Issues Throughout the Health Care System
    22:59 Workforce Education & Training
    23:55 Stigma Against Perinatal Mental Health Conditions
    26:55 Barriers to Perinatal Mental Health Treatment
    28:35 MCPAP For Moms
    30:52 Building Front-Line Provider Capacity
    32:23 Trauma-Informed Care and Strengths-Based Approach
    33:28 The Perinatal Period and Mental Health Screening
    35:15 Perinatal Mental Health as a Public Health Problem and Universal Screening Recommendations
    37:34 Trainings and Toolkits for Addressing Perinatal Mental Health
    39:15 Proactive Practice-Level Interventions to Destigmatize Mental Health
    41:37 Implementation Protocols
    42:58 Social Determinants of Health
    43:52 Increasing Front-Line Provider Capacity
    44:32 How Can Physicians Deal With Stigma in the Profession?
    48:08 Group Care vs. Individual Care
    49:37 2 Evaluations During Pregnancy vs. 1 Evaluation (Screening)
    51:04 HIPPA
    52:16 Unconscious Bias and Stigma
    55:35 Burnout, Depression, Stigma, and Physician License Renewal
    57:38 How to Diagnosis Severity of Mental Health Disease From Screening

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