"Taking “social factors” into account in the mental health clinic: lessons from Brazil "
VUMC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Objectives:
The activity is designed to help the learner
(1) describe the characteristics that make mental health care in Brazil uniquely attuned to social factors
(2) discuss how social science approaches can usefully inform clinical practices and psychiatric research.
About the Speaker:
Dominique P. Béhague, PhD
Associate Professor | Director of Undergraduate Studies | Medicine, Health & Society
Vanderbilt University
Reader | Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College London
Summary:
This talk reports on results from a mixed-methods anthropological and epidemiological birth cohort study in Southern Brazil on how mental health providers and patients seek to address the social determinants of mental health. It describes the limits of behavioral and competency approaches and demonstrates how socially sensitive therapy can support people’s desire to change the socio-economic, environmental, and political forces shaping mental health.
CME/CE credit for Psychiatry Grand Rounds is only available during the live feed time and for a brief time immediately following. The code for this week's session is displayed at the opening and closing of the meeting and also in the Chair's Office Zoom Account Name during the meeting.
For CME/CE information about this session, please visit:
https://zoom.us/j/98313399711
This talk is sponsored by the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
This educational activity received no commercial support.