This episode focuses on the Indigenous community, Dr. Virani discusses the systemic racism issues faced by this community with two psychiatrists who have Native American heritage, Dr. Mary Hasbah Roessel, a psychiatrist at the Santa Fe Service Unit in Santa Fe Indian Hospital working in the outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is Navajo from the southwestern US.  Dr. Stefanie Gillson, who is Dakota Sioux and is finishing up her 4th-year psychiatry resident at Yale University and starting her Child & Adolescent Fellowship at Yale.

In this episode Dr. Virani and our guests examine

• Indigenous war veterans and the treatment faced when returning from war
• PTSD and survivor’s guilt
• Tribal heritage as related to a therapeutic relationship
• Ethnic matching
• Being an indigenous psychiatrist
• The effect of white cultural norms on therapy
• Religious and spiritual assessment in the therapeutic evaluation
• DSM-5 cultural formations
• Effects of colonization policy on poor health outcomes of indigenous peoples
• Historical intergenerational trauma
• The broken promise of Indian health services
• Indigenous women’s mental health and the incidence of physical violence
• MMIWG report
• Tribal government ruling and the US government

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