COMMITTEE REPORTS Continued.

Cultural

Present: Francis Lu, Kenneth Fung, Roberto LewisFernandez

Via Zoom: Ladson Hinton, Pablo Farias

Fellow: Kelsey Wong

Guest: Ana Gomez-Carrillo, Ittleson Consultant

During the meeting we discussed a case study that Kelsey Wong is preparing for Clinical Psychiatry News. We also discussed a paper that we were finalizing for Lancet Psychiatry entitled: “Integrating Neuroscience in Psychiatry: A Cultural-Ecosocial Systemic Approach”.

We also meet via Zoom with members of the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative to discuss potential collaborations, including possibly writing articles together or preparing curricular materials as part of the NNCI documents, sharing authorship with the GAP Committee. Before the next in-person April meeting, we will meet 2 to 3 times by Zoom to continue to discuss the case with Kelsey and the potential collaboration with the NNCI folks.

GENDER & MENTAL HEALTH

Attending: Carol Nadelson, Leena Mittal, Natalie Feldman, Kara Brown. By zoom: Sophie Grigoriadis, Nkechi Conteh, Nirmaljit Dhami

Completed revisions on a paper on the role of language in women’s mental health. Almost ready to submit. We started work on a blog about pregnancy and bipolar disorder. Our paper on the Physical and Psychological Impact of Overturning Roe v Wade was in press (since published in Dec). Nkechi is now a full member and Natalie will stay on with our new financial support as a former Fellow.

LGBTQ+

Attending: Stewart Adelson, Joanne Ahola, Kenn Ashley, Mary Barber, William Byne, Flavio Casoy, Alexis Chavez, Jack Drescher, David Lopez, Lorraine Lothwell, Marlin Mattson, Scot McAfee, Chris McIntosh, Alan Schwartz, Andy Tompkins

PROJECT TITLE:

Collaboration with Yale Youth Equity Science in Global Health Partnerships.

Describe “state of science” regarding treatment of gender dysphoria and sexual orientation conversion efforts, relation to culture wars, to be completed

November 2023, with the first draft mostly completed. This will be targeted to practicing psychiatrists, advocates and legal scholars. This will be submitted to a first tier psychiatry journal.

FOCUS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED DURING THE MEETING:

We completed most of the first draft of the manuscript.

PLANS FOR BETWEEN MEETING WORK:

Revision of manuscript in preparation for next meeting. How many times have you met virtually since November 2020? 5-6

FOCUS FOR NEXT MEETING: Completion of this manuscript.

MILITARY & VETERANS

Present: David Benedek, Robert Koffman, Harold Kudler, Elspeth Ritchie, Andrew Stone (GAP Committee on Terrorism and Political Violence)

1. Opportunity to Write a GAP Blog on the Psychology Today Website: GAP members and Committees are invited to contribute a 400–1000word blog for publication. Vignettes make for effective blogs. The Publications Subcommittee edits and reviews all submissions. Final approval rests with Dr. David Adler and GAP President Cal Sumner. GAP submits two blogs/month, every other Wednesday.

2. An Organized Campaign by Extremist Groups to Radicalize Service Members and Veterans at Time of Separation from Service (Andrew Stone led this discussion): Andrew shared a history of extremist groups seeking to recruit military members and veterans dating back at least a far as the Civil War. He pointed out that 15% of those arrested at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, had a military connection. Might it be possible to identify those at increased risk for radicalization and intervene early? A public health approach focused on individual and family wellbeing at time of separation and during transition to civilian life may be helpful in this. DoD, VA, Unit Organizations, Auxiliary Organizations, and Veteran Service Organizations could each play a role in intervention. The Center for New