What I would take back.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 431-432; doi:10.1037/fsh0000702In this poem, the author describes when she was nine and in a hospital bed, her leg in a vise of needle teeth. After the pain, a family member returns with her father. The author describes the fog of forgetting a broken vow of the family member. She then describes her daughter injuring her toenail, which required bandages. The daughter asks if the wound will hurt, and the author says yes, remembering her own experience in the hospital bed as a nine-year-old. The daughter pleads with her mother to stay, and the mother reels her back to her hosp...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Season’s roulette.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 429-430; doi:10.1037/fsh0000696In this poem, the author recalls the deaths of her parents and her sister's mastectomy. This leads her to wonder if she is playing genetic lottery with her family’s history. Death loses this round of Cancer Roulette but leaves her with a reminder, a tiny heart-shaped scar over her heart, the mother side, and a marker in her breast which aches when it rains. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Summer solstice.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 427-428; doi:10.1037/fsh0000708In this poem, the author describes spending summers with her grandfather in Beijing. When he became sick, she and her sister would feed him soup. She was always scared by the tubes in his nose, his varicose veins, and how he would cough fistfuls of air. Soon her mother stopped taking them to see him. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A journey through loss and shifting perspectives.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 425-426; doi:10.1037/fsh0000710The author shares her challenging experience of being a caretaker over the course of 10 months for her mother, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She shares her story so that others who may find themselves in an unimaginable situation of loss know that there is hope, and the possibility to find peace when you allow yourself to shift your perspective on how you handle obstacles in life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Cath lab deluge — A haiku.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 424; doi:10.1037/fsh0000719This haiku reflects on the author's experience of lying on a hospital catheterization table with minimal chest pressure and shortness of breath symptoms, and what was found to be an abnormal electrocardiogram and Troponin. The cardiologist’s diligent efforts to clear the blockages with a resultant torrent of blood flow into those vessels was followed by a series of implanted stents that not only saved his life, but also the long-term viability of his heart. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Review of UNSTUCK: An OCD kids movie.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 422-423; doi:10.1037/fsh0000722Reviews the documentary film, UNSTUCK: An OCD Kids Movie by Kelly Anderson and Chris Baier (2017). In the film, Anderson and Baier interview six children diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), whom they refer to as “kid experts.” It provides a new way of educating the public on a psychological disorder that is often casually referenced but frequently misunderstood. With its focus on children and their families, UNSTUCK offers families, educators, therapists, and researchers alike a viewpoint often overlooked in current film an...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Inequities in behavioral health: What do we really know?
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 420-421; doi:10.1037/fsh0000734Behavioral health problems are ubiquitous in today’s society. Social, environmental, and physical stressors impact our daily activities and wellness, contributing to mental health conditions, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, as well as substance use. We know that populations and identities are not equally impacted. Populations who experience greater stressors suffer more. Structures and systems cause and reinforce inequities in health, inclusive of behavioral health. Still, there is insufficient understanding of the existing disparities in be...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Participant compensation in health equity research: How equitable is it?
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 415-417; doi:10.1037/fsh0000729In this article, the authors highlight their experience in navigating outdated, inequitable policies at institutions and in advocating for changes that support health equity research with a focus on participant compensation. As two new assistant professors establishing their programs of health equity research, they call on colleagues to examine their practices of participant compensation while consider an intersectional and systems-level framework. Their goals are to develop culturally responsive interventions that bolster well-being and ameli...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Clinician’s commentary to accompany “Clinical, operational, and financial evaluation practices in integrated behavioral health care”.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 413-414; doi:10.1037/fsh0000732Presents a clinician's commentary to accompany the article "Clinical, operational, and financial practices in integrated behavioral health care" by A. R. Muse et al (see record 2022-60013-001). In this commentary, the authors address four questions: (1) How does this article, written by researchers, resonate with your experience as a clinician? (2) What Is one thing you might do differently in your practice after reading this article? (3) What factors might facilitate or hinder the uptake/implementation of ideas in this piece? What is one unan...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Fractured families and social networks: Identifying risk and resilience factors for supporting positive mental health in Venezuelan immigrant groups.
Conclusions: Findings from the present study suggest that community context, support for ethnic identity, and the ability to foster meaningful connections to others with similar experience and identity are critical factors in resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Pediatric mental health crisis: Propelling the Surgeon General’s advice to action.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 40(3), Sep 2022, 305-311; doi:10.1037/fsh0000733The nation is facing a pediatric mental health crisis that is years in the making. The pandemic potentiated the crisis by isolating youth and compounding family stressors. In response, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory in late 2021 recommending actions that health care and other sectors should take to improve youth well-being. Integrated care has a critical role to play in both implementing and moving beyond the Surgeon General’s recommendations. The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association’s Pediatric Special Interest Group (SI...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
From surviving to thriving: Strategies to cultivate individual and organizational resilience in the health care workforce.
In this president's column, the author notes that resilience has been identified as a strategy to mitigate the triumvirate of burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress. Once viewed as an innate personality trait, there has been an increased focus on the cultivation of resilience among health care providers, with attention to evolving educational models depending on the career stage of the provider and interventions for interprofessional health care workers. Strategies to develop the “7Cs” of individual resilience, which were initially applied to children and adolescents, have begun to be applied to physicians. If...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
What I would take back.
In this poem, the author describes when she was nine and in a hospital bed, her leg in a vise of needle teeth. After the pain, a family member returns with her father. The author describes the fog of forgetting a broken vow of the family member. She then describes her daughter injuring her toenail, which required bandages. The daughter asks if the wound will hurt, and the author says yes, remembering her own experience in the hospital bed as a nine-year-old. The daughter pleads with her mother to stay, and the mother reels her back to her hospital bed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: F...
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Season’s roulette.
In this poem, the author recalls the deaths of her parents and her sister's mastectomy. This leads her to wonder if she is playing genetic lottery with her family’s history. Death loses this round of Cancer Roulette but leaves her with a reminder, a tiny heart-shaped scar over her heart, the mother side, and a marker in her breast which aches when it rains. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Summer solstice.
In this poem, the author describes spending summers with her grandfather in Beijing. When he became sick, she and her sister would feed him soup. She was always scared by the tubes in his nose, his varicose veins, and how he would cough fistfuls of air. Soon her mother stopped taking them to see him. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
