According to Psychiatric News (12/23), a commentary published online Dec. 14 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry posited that “physicians’ responsibilities in addressing racism and racial violence toward Black Americans range from examining and taking steps to counter our own implicit and explicit biases to addressing policies and procedures that reproduce inequities within mental health delivery systems.” After “drawing from literature and their personal experience, the authors” of the commentary “offered…recommendations for the field of medicine, as it relates” to educators, clinicians, and medical administrators.
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— “Psychiatrists Outline Strategies to Achieve Antiracism in Medicine, Psychiatric News, December 23, 2020