Dr Carmen Black joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Andrea Shamaskin-Garroway, Dr E. Mimi Arquilla, Elizabeth Roessler, and Dr Kirsten M. Wilkins: “Undoing Institutional and Racial Trauma Through Interprofessional, Trauma-Informed Education.”

Dr Michael J. Oldani joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Papal Doctrines’ Deep Trauma Legacies in Minoritized Communities.”

Dr Ziad Obermeyer talks about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.

Disparities in children’s mental health care could be addressed through expansion of school-based programs via passage of the Mental Health in Schools Act.

Due to insurance company regulations, current restrictions on access to mental health care prevent many from obtaining needed care.

There are many misconceptions about psychiatry as a science that contribute to the continued social stigmatization of mental illnesses.

Training in the humanities helps to provide psychiatrists with an insight into the human condition, as represented in literature, film, and other media forms.

Summary of federal and state autism-specific legislation that governs insurance coverage for those with autism spectrum disorder and their caregivers.

Efforts are underway to make posttraumatic stress disorder a condition for which the Veterans Administration will authorize coverage for use of service dogs.

The Domenici Wellstone Equitable Treatment Act sought to increase access to mental health care services and improve the efficiency and fairness of insurance coverage for mental illness.