Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine

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

• Structural Competency and Racial Health Disparities: Rethinking Pre-Health Education.- Structural Competence in a Longitudinal Medical School Curriculum in Humanities and Social Sciences.- The Walking Classroom: Social Medicine on the Streets of Baltimore.- "This Ain't No Tool, This Ain't no Kit": Teaching Structural Competency Through An Embodied Pedagogy in The Wake of Narrative Medicine.- Bringing Structural Competency to first-year medical students: a UCSF case study.- Rad Med’s Structural Competency Training for Clinicians.- Collaborative Fieldwork on Homelessness, Severe Mental Illness and Incarceration: Cross-Training in Medicine and the Social Sciences.- The NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System: An Action-Oriented Collaboration among the Medical Students, Community-Based Organizations, Public Health Officials, and the Legal Sector in New York City.- Engaging Psychiatry Residents with Communities and with Mental Health Peers.- Beyond Humility: Relational Politics and Lessons from the University of California PRIME – LC program.- Yale Department of Psychiatry Structural Competency Community Initiative (YSCCI).- Community Health Workers as Accelerators of Community Engagement and Structural Competency in Medical Centers.- Teaching Urbanism for Health.- Partnerships for collective recovery in an immigrant/refugee community following massive trauma.- Urban Housing and Asthma - An Example of the Impact of Medical-Legal Partnership in Keeping Children Healthy.- From Punishment to Public Health: Cross-Sector Policy Innovations in Law Enforcement and Mental Health.- From Policy to Partnership: How Allied Healthcare Workers Advance Structural Competency.- Physicians as Policy Advocates: from the bedside to the state house.

“The book would be a worthwhile addition to any collection on cultural competency; diversity, equity, and inclusion; public health; social determinants of health; or health professions education. Hansen and Metzl’s Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine: A Case Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health will, I hope, inspire further development and implementation of structural competency perhaps involving collaborations with health sciences libraries and librarians.” (Gregory Laynor, Journal of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 109 (2), April, 2021)