Mental Health Equity Champion Spotlight: Lisa Fortuna

• APA Leadership, Diverse populations, Teens and young adults

This quarter’s Mental Health Equity Champion is Lisa Fortuna, M.D., M.P.H., M.Div., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.

Mental Health Equity Champion Spotlight: Dr. Lisa Fortuna

• Diversity News and Updates

This quarter’s Mental Health Equity Champion is Dr. Lisa Fortuna, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California Riverside, School of Medicine.

Mindfulness in Psychiatry: A Bridge to Wellbeing for Diverse Populations

• Diverse populations, Healthy living for mental well-being

“Your breath is a tool that you have with you at all times, anywhere you go, always readily available.” Lisa Fortuna, M.D., M.P.H., MDiv, shared this insight on the therapeutic potential of the breath during the American Psychiatric Association’s virtual panel discussion “Meditation and Mindfulness: A Cultural Bridge to Mental Wellbeing.”

Program Highlights

Find examples of the model being implemented across different service and payer types.

Military and Veteran Mental Health

Learn more about Military + Veteran Mental Health at psychiatry.org

Racial Disparities in Childhood Adversity Linked to Brain Structural Differences in U.S. Children

Black children in the United States are more likely to experience childhood adversity than White children, and these disparities are reflected in differential changes to regions of the brain linked to psychiatric disease like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to new research led by McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham.

Coping After Disaster

Learn more about the recommended steps to begin coping with the possible stress that follows a tragedy.

APA Statement on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

Learn more about APA Statement on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 at psychiatry.org

Address Your Feelings During This Election Cycle and Seek Medical Care if Needed

• Patients and Families

During these uncertain times, it can be very difficult to manage all that is happening around us:  the pandemic, job and financial insecurities, police brutality leading to protests and community unrest, and uneasiness around the voting process and the election outcome. 

Trastorno por estrés postraumático infantil y del adolescente (TEPT)

Trastorno por estrés postraumático infantil y del adolescente (TEPT)

November Issues of American Psychiatric Association Journals Cover Trauma, Suicide, Resilience and More

The November issues of two of the American Psychiatric Association journals, The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services are available online.

Sense of Smell, Memories and Emotions

• Older adults, Patients and Families, Serious mental illness, Trauma

Many people have had the experience of a familiar smell bringing up a memory or a feeling. That is just one of several ways our sense of smell is associated with mental health and emotions. Memories associated with a specific odor may be particularly strong. In writing about the relation of these odor-evoked memories to our mental health, psychologist Rachel Herz, Ph.D., concludes that “from numerous perspectives it is evident that the autobiographical memories and emotional associations that ar