Collaborative Care for Pain Management



Earlier this month Virna Little, PsyD, LCSW-r, and Laura Sidari, MD, shared clinical pearls on using the collaborative care model to manage chronic pain.

Watch the recording | View the slides

Our next Mind Matters ECHO meeting will be held on September 13, 2023 from 5:30-7:00pm with James Wright, Chief of Crisis Center Operations for the 988 team.

If you have a case you'd like to share for consultation and support, please email Anitha Iyer, PhD, Course Director.

In order to provide compassionate and gender-affirming care to LGBTQ+ patients it is essential to understand key terminology about gender and sexuality. The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center has a handy glossary, which includes definitions of various gender and sexual identities, gender-affirming therapies, and more.

They also provide a list of outdated and insensitive terms, and their recommended replacements. 

Instead of __________, use ___________:

Berdache

Two-spirit

Biological female/male

Assigned female/male at birth

Cross-sex hormone therapy; hormone replacement therapy

Gender-affirming hormone therapy

Disorders/differences of sex development

Intersex

Female-to-male (FTM) and Male-to-female (MTF) Transgender man and transgender woman

Gender nonconforming

Gender non-binary

Hermaphrodite/Ambiguous genitalia

Intersex

Homosexual

Gay or lesbian

Legal name

Administrative name or Name on legal documents

Preferred name

Chosen name or Name used

Preferred pronouns

Pronouns

Sex change/Sex reassignment surgery/Gender reconstruction surgery

Gender-affirming surgery

Sexual preference/lifestyle

Sexual orientation

Transgendered

Transgender

An original JAMA investigation found an association between gender-affirming surgery and improved mental health outcomes and reduction in substance use. Gender-affirming surgery refers to any surgical procedures offered to affirm the gender identities of trans and gender diverse (TGD) people. 

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Joshua Safer, MD, FACP, FACE, Executive Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS) and pioneer in the field of transgender medicine, recently presented a Grand Rounds on the current evidence base in transgender medicine.

He also shared some high-level guidance in a Healio article.

The Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center at 45 Rivington Street in lower Manhattan will begin to open this summer. The $140 million, 133,000-square-foot facility—the largest private investment in behavioral health in New York State history—will transform behavioral health care in New York City by serving as a comprehensive “one-stop shop” for mental health care, substance use treatment, and primary care.

The Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center is a testament to the value that Mount Sinai places on behavioral health care. The Center is based on a unique model of highly integrated and coordinated care in a single location. We have completely re-envisioned the model of behavioral health care in order to address long-standing challenges in the field and provide exceptional, compassionate care to the Mount Sinai Health System community and beyond.

Visit the website and watch the mission video to learn more about the Center.

It's no secret that there is high stigma surrounding mental health which can be incredibly harmful to people living with mental health conditions and interfere with their treatment and recovery.

The CDC offers a variety of provider resources on mental health literacy, including a CME course from the University of Texas at Austin on stigma-free communication about mental health.

Information to share with your patients: gender dysphoria