COMMITTEE REPORTS Continued.

RESEARCH Continued.

Our most important endeavor was rediscovering the interpersonal connectedness we experience when working together. This interconnectedness is the foundation of our work, the basis for our creativity, and the foundation of our trust and respect for each other. We rediscovered “conversational thought,” which has been absent in virtual committee meetings. By the end of our morning session on Friday, it was clear our group is still a living human entity.

Dr. Erin Belfort, visiting for the first time in person, but a visitor on multiple occasions virtually, was considered and unanimously elected for committee membership; and unanimously elected as well to GAP at the meeting of the Steering Committee on November 19, 2022. Dr. Belfort is a family psychiatrist by training and experience; the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Director at the Maine Medical Center; and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is the psychiatrist for the Gender Clinic at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, at the Maine Medical Center. Lastly, she is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Ritvij Satodiya, our Fellow for the past two years, entirely virtually until this meeting, was awarded an Ethel Ginsburg Fellowship by the GAP Board of Directors. He will thus have two additional meetings subsidized by GAP as a member of the Research Committee. Dr. Satodiya is Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; and currently at Emory University completing a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship.

Regarding our ongoing project, initiated prior to the virtual hiatus as a result of COVID, “Utilizing Context in Psychiatric Practice,” Dr. Harper reviewed, Know Me, Know My World: What are we doing with context, the potential first chapter of an edited book, with Dr. Adler (Chair, Publications Board). Dr. Adler encouraged us to proceed along the lines suggested by the chapter. We re-established our relationship, with respect to this project, with Oxford University Press. Our previous editor with Oxford has retired and is living happily with her husband in Arizona. Oxford assigned a new editor from the Medicine Section with whom we will be working.

Other less ambitious projects are being developed including potential op-ed publications and contributions to the GAP Blog on the Psychology Today website.

We discussed future virtual meetings, prioritizing the schedules of our early/mid-career members. We decided the next virtual meeting would be on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, at 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time for one hour. Future meetings will be for one hour with the frequency to be discussed further at the November 30th meeting.

I have asked Dr. Harper to coordinate further meetings of the editing group, editing assignments, as well as communication with Oxford University Press. As Dr. Harper will be participating in the upcoming IACAPAP meeting, returning December 9, 2022, those activities will begin shortly thereafter.

Last but not least, Yajaira Paparone, who has been a Contributing Member for several years, is reuniting with us and will be joining the January Virtual Call, and attending the next Non-Virtual meeting. For those of you who do not know her, she trained with a very prominent Family Psychiatrist. Welcome back, Dr. Paparone!

Social Justice

Present: Kenn Ashley, Hugh Cummings (guest, promoted to member at the meeting), Ali Haidar (guest, promoted to member at the meeting), Alex Harris (guest, promoted to member at the meeting)

1. We collaborated on a Google Doc and came up with the following (which has been sent to Frances Bell) for the website:

About the GAP Social Justice Committee

Within GAP, the Social Justice Committee will work to raise attention of members to relevant issues at all phases of discussion and dissemination, ranging from membership practices to committee meetings to GAP’s deliverables. The Social Justice Committee will propose a series of recommendations designed to improve the organization’s attention to diversity, equity, non-exclusion, anti-racism, and issues of broad social justice. Outside of GAP, the Social Justice Committee will work to influence policy related to topics of relevance to social justice in the theory and practice of psychiatry.

CURRENT AND PLANNED PROJECTS INCLUDE:

1. A survey of membership to better understand demographics, considerations, and membership observations and needs, including feedback from GAP Fellows and recent GAP Fellowship alumni

2. A review of GAP products from the beginning of the organization in order to determine and disseminate: a. What was GAP doing at the time? b. What was going on in society and culture? c. How did the GAP products influence what happened next?

3. A plan to conduct interviews with longtime GAP members to better understand their perceptions regarding the importance and impact of social justice in the products and discussions of the organization

2. Social Justice view of GAP: Project proposal a. 1946: post-Truman, government foisted racist views on the country i. Highways to disrupt communities ii. Projects iii.Psychiatry: Post-war, rising of NIMH b. 1963: deinstitutionalization a. What is GAP thinking along the lines of social justice? Did they have an impact?

What was GAP doing? What was the parallel of cultural ferment? How did GAP products influence?

GAP Products: Resources—The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (ourgap.org)

Leverage the wisdom of the elders: Social Justice in Action

Would be nice to interview all of the Presidents

Could help identify major areas of outcome regarding GAP projects, products, and influence

Interview the older members of the group and find out what they were doing, what they had in mind, and the impact they perceived

Looking at the GAP reports, social justice seems to have been a motivating force of the organization, and we will want to take an agnostic view and find out “did it get lost?”

This committee will review the GAP products and categorize them

Consultation: Take the story, reimagine it to a more successful/productive conclusion future

Clearly, nonjudgmentally assess the past and then construct a product that helps productivity Move things forward (product: Findings of “facts”— evidence)

STATED preferences vs. WORK in action a. Historical overview will help understand what GAP has done over the last 75 years b. We can look to see if this matches with stated values (to present to the steering committee)

Multiple ways of telling a story a. Evidence/facts b. Interpretation c. Reaction from the system

Deliverables: a. Lessons learned b. From leadership: What is their articulation of goals for GAP? c. How do the historical goals / record match the practices and goals of the organization? d. Jane would like to write a blog post

3. The committee began work on a survey for the membership regarding demographics/identities

SYSTEMS INNOVATION & TRANSFORMATION

Present: Wes Sowers, Manish Sapra, Mardoche Sidor, Anna Skiandos, Hunter McQuistion,

Virtual: Jules Ranz, Bruce Fage, Deepika Sastry, Nubia Lluberes, Rachel Zinns, Sosunmolu Shoyinka

I. The meeting began with introductions and personal updates

II. Review of the progress of sales on the Seeking Value Book a. There have not been very significant sales of the book so far, still a little more that 100. b. There has been limited follow through on promotional efforts identified at our last meeting c. Hunter had a review published in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. d. Sunil Khushilani described his book on Quality processes and LEAN principles and interface with Value