COMMITTEE REPORTS Continued.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Members attending: David Sasso, Chair, Anish Dube, Andy Lustbader, Ken Weiss, Helena Winston Fellow attending: Christopher Magoon

We spent Friday morning reviewing our overall mission as a committee and brainstorming about new avenues for topics and products.

Regarding our ongoing history video project, Ken Weiss will redistribute the current script and seek comment on how to move it forward.

We discussed possible topics for ongoing writing projects, in particular the opportunity to publish on the GAP blog hosted on Psychology Today.

We had a fascinating conversation via zoom with critically acclaimed classical composer Julia Adolphe, who shares interests in creativity and the arts and the experience of mental illness and treatment among creative professionals. She has produced a podcast on the topic and is currently in a fellowship program at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. We will follow up with her to see if there are potential points of collaboration (on her podcast, joint writing projects, etc.). Finally, we congratulate our fellow, Christopher, on the completion of his GAP fellowship and an excellent job on the fellow plenary, and we are excited to welcome him back over the next two meetings as a Ginsburg Fellow.

Child Committee

Member’s Attending: Dorothy Stubbe, Eunice Yuen, Susan Daily, Gabrielle Shapiro, Cynthia Pfeffer, Jonathon Dowben

GAP Fellow: Janet Baek on parental leave

Dr. Barry Sarvet has requested to step down as co-Chair and Dr. Eunice Yuen will take the position of co-Chair with Dr. Dorothy Stubbe.

Member’s Transitioning to Emeritus Status: The Child Committee acknowledges the enormous contributions of our emeritus members: Drs. John Schowalter, Peter Tanguay, and Ted Shapiro. We acknowledge their valued mentorship, contributions and friendship over their many years on the Child Committee. We will seek to acknowledge and honor them with a small gift.

Members to be invited: The Child Committee discussed colleagues to invite to join the Committee.

FOCUS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED DURING THE MEETING:

The committee completed and submitted an article to the GAP publications board, Clinical Considerations in Working with Children of Color: Past, Present, and Future. The burden of systemic racism and health inequality for Children of Color and their family’s needs to be acknowledged and addressed in the provision of mental health treatment by child and adolescent psychiatrists. The article highlights the advances and ongoing challenges for child and adolescent psychiatrists in confronting issues of racial disparities in children’s mental health care more fully. The article will be submitted to the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

PLANS FOR BETWEEN-MEETINGS WORK: Child and adolescent mental health has been identified as a national emergency by multiple organizations. This large-scale epidemic is a challenge for communities, pediatric and mental health care providers, healthcare systems, and especially the children and families that are suffering. The Child Committee is considering an article addressing these issues. The details and outline will be the focus of our between meeting work.

Climate

Present: Elizabeth Haase, co-chair; Janet Lewis, co-chair, Beth Mark, member, John Sullenbarger, ECP guest, Emily Schutzenhofer, resident guest, Josh Wortzel, Child Fellow

Unable to attend: Alex Yoon, fellowship applicant, Ferdnand Oswuagu and Andrew Olangunju

CURRENT PROJECTS: Curriculum study

This study aims to demonstrate the didactic effectiveness of a three hour climate curriculum. In our prior project, we demonstrated that there was resident and training director interest in climate education which increased with increased awareness of/exposure to information about climate mental health effects. However, because we aimed to show that a majority of residencies were interested