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APA Foundation Welcomes 2023 Class of Fellows

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article APA & MeetingsFull AccessAPA Foundation Welcomes 2023 Class of FellowsSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:24 May 2023https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2023.06.7.13The American Psychiatric Association Foundation has announced the names of its 2023 class of fellows. With a total of 116 members, the 2023 class is its largest ever, as well as its most diverse—over 77% of participants self-identify as people of color, 61% as women, and 24% as LGBTQ+.The APA Foundation Resident Fellowship Program complements psychiatry residency training by providing experiential learning, mentorships, and professional development opportunities. Twenty-seven U.S. states and 80 medical institutions are represented in this class.“We couldn’t be more excited to add this impressive class into our community of fellows and fellowship alumni at this critical time in mental health care,” said APA Foundation Executive Director Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq. “This cohort has already proven themselves to be a valuable source of talent and innovation. The future of psychiatry is in good hands.”Each fellow participates in one of nine fellowships on such topics as child and adolescent psychiatry, psychiatric research, and public psychiatry. They will join 61 second-year fellows for a total of 177. ■The names of the fellows. ISSUES NewArchived

APA Foundation welcomes its largest class of fellows

The American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APA Foundation) proudly welcomed 116 future psychiatric leaders into the 2023 class of fellows, marking the largest class in its program history, according to an APA news release. The APA Foundation Resident Fellowship Program complements psychiatric residency training by providing experiential learning, mentorships, and professional development opportunities. Twenty‐seven U.S. states and 80 medical institutions are represented in this class. The 2023 class is also the most diverse in the fellowship's history, with over 77% of participants self‐identifying as people of color, 61% as women, and 24% as LGBTQ+. “We couldn't be more excited to add this impressive class into our community of fellows and fellowship alumni at this critical time in mental health care,” said APA Foundation Executive Director Rawle Andrews, Jr., Esq. “This cohort has already proven themselves to be a valuable source of talent and innovation. The future of psychiatry is in good hands.” Each fellow is assigned to one of nine different fellowships, encompassing topics from child and adolescent psychiatry to psychiatric research and public psychiatry. They will join 61 second‐year fellows for a total of 176. “We are looking forward to working with and training these future leaders of our field,” said Vedrana Hodzic, APA Foundation's director of fellowships, mentorship, and medical education, who oversaw the recruitment of this year's class.

Finding Ezra Jack Keats: In Search of a Children’s Book Icon

On a mission, I entered the Ezra Jack Keats archives in the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in early 2011.Chosen by the Keats Foundation Executive Director Deborah Pope and the de Grummond Curator Ellen Ruffin to do research for things to include in Viking’s fiftieth anniversary edition of Keats’ iconic The Snowy Day, I searched for items that would be meaningful for an extra eight-page supplement. Soon I found myself yearning to have had the information I was finding when I had taught Keats’ books in kindergarten and second grade. So much of his childhood and life presaged the stories he would tell and the art he would create in his picture books. On a deadline, I could not dwell on those treasures. I determined to come back and write a biography for those who still teach and read his classic books.

Partnership Between Psychiatrists, Faith Leaders Untapped Key to Expanding Reach of MH Care

Partnership Between Psychiatrists, Faith Leaders Untapped Key to Expanding Reach of MH Care

On the Translatability of Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary: A Critical View from the Twenty-First Century

On the Translatability of Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary:A Critical View from the Twenty-First Century Susan H. Gillespie (bio) Scene 1. Moscow, Russia, and Princeton and Philadelphia, USA. September 2015–January 2016. The Moscow Biennale and American Slought Foundation hold a series of events under the title "Straying. An itinerant project exploring urban errors, discrepancies, and territories in Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary (1926)." The project begins with an exhibition and accompanying events in Moscow and continues with symposia in New York and Princeton, and an exhibition and several events at Slought's Philadelphia gallery, featuring historical artifacts, projected media, and research. Scene 2. St. Petersburg, Russia. December 2016. Donald Trump has just been elected President of the United States. The "Critique of Humanities" and "Human Rights" Joint Seminar of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University holds a conference: "Art and Political Engagement. Walter Benjamin's thought in XXI century." The paper reprinted below is presented, in an earlier version, at that conference. Scene 3. St. Petersburg, Russia. November 2022. The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University is in the process of being closed; some of its professors and students are already in exile, others are just getting ready to leave the country. [End Page 871] Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary is a uniquely personal document full of candid reflections on the author's relationship to the 1917 Russian revolution and its reactionary aftermath, his unrequited love for Latvian revolutionary theater-maker Asja Lacis, his career as a bourgeois intellectual and critic, and the future possibility, for him, of writing. First published only in 1980, the journal provoked a spike of interest in 2015–16, in the form of an international series of art events hosted by the Moscow Biennale and the Philadelphia-based Slought Foundation. Does the Moscow Diary have something important to say to contemporary thinkers? The American sponsors of the series of events and exhibitions certainly thought so: Slought Foundation Executive Director and Chief Curator Aaron Levy found it "incredibly contemporary, a manual or a toolbox to navigate the current situation."1 In the following, I will draw on Benjamin's earlier essay "The Task of the Translator" (1923) to think with him about the translatability of the diary, and the experiences it reflects, into contemporary readers' understanding of the historical reality we confront now, almost exactly one hundred years later. "The Task of the Translator," I will argue, offers an approach to thinking about meaning in history that we can use to construe for the diary a uniquely and persuasively contemporary significance. We may do this, Benjamin would have insisted, only by paying explicit, concrete attention to the work's historicity. In employing one of Benjamin's most cited and difficult works to unpack the contemporary significance of a relatively obscure and personal text, I also hope to shed light on underappreciated aspects of the essay on translation. Method, here, is to think through the content of the diary based on the context of its creation and of what I deem to be Benjamin's understanding of the translatability of experience into thought and art, and the readability of the resulting works across time. The fact that, for Benjamin, this time is conceived as "eternal" and that the truth of "pure" language has a redemptive character, is paradoxically what allows him—and his sympathetic readers today—to make philosophical and ethical sense of the crisis Benjamin experienced in the 1920s and of the crisis that faces intellectuals a century later, as we confront the implosion of global capitalism and the violent aggression of Russia within its historical sphere of influence. In his opening salvo in "The Task of the Translator," Walter Benjamin insists: "Nowhere, when it comes to cognition of a work of art or an art form, is consideration of the recipient fruitful. For no poem is meant for the reader, no painting for the viewer, no symphony for its listening audience."2 Nor, for Benjamin, do artworks communicate content. Other forms of writing—journalism, advertising, popular literature—communicate content. Artworks do something greater, and the measure by which we recognize their...

Asian American Female Composers and Digital Memory

Asian American Female Composers and Digital Memory

Practical Guidelines for Managing Patients With Hidradenitis Suppurativa: An Update.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, inflammatory skin disease that is characterized by the formation of comedones, papules, nodules, abscesses and sinus tracts in the axillary, inframammary, groin, and gluteal areas. Up to 3.8% of the Canadian population has HS, though due to a lack of awareness of HS, many patients are initially misdiagnosed and do not receive adequate treatment early on in the disease course. Once a diagnosis of HS is made, developing an effective management plan can be a dilemma for many providers. There is significant variability in response to any given therapy within the HS patient population and many HS patients have other medical comorbidities which must be taken into consideration. The aim of this review is to provide a practical approach for all healthcare providers to diagnose and manage HS and its associated comorbidities. A sample electronic medical record template for HS management was developed by the Canadian Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation Executive Board and is intended for use in clinical settings. This will help to increase collaboration between primary healthcare providers, dermatologists, and other medical specialists and ultimately improve the quality of care that HS patients receive.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities and Industries

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence offers an intensive evaluation of how the smart city establishments are made at different scales through automated thinking headways, for instance, geospatial information, data examination, data portrayal, clever related things, and quick natural frameworks handiness. Progressing propels in electronic thinking attract us closer to making a persistent reproduced model of human-made and trademark structures, from urban regions to transportation establishments to utility frameworks. This continuous living model empowers us to all the bound to manage and improve these working structures, making them dynamically watchful. Keen Cities and Artificial Intelligence gives a multidisciplinary, joined procedure, using speculative and applied bits of information, for the evaluation of savvy city situations. This special issue shows how the mechanized and physical universes are associated inside this organic framework, and how nonstop data arrangement is changing the possibility of our urban as well as industrial condition. It gives a fresh sweeping perspective on the natural framework designing, advances, and parts that include the masterminding and execution of sharp city and industry establishments. This special issue also shows how the computerized and physical universes are connected inside this biological system, and how continuous information assortment is changing the idea of our urban and industry condition. It gives a crisp all-encompassing viewpoint on the biological system engineering, advances, and parts that involve the arranging and execution of keen city and industry foundations. After following double blind peer review for all the submitted manuscripts across the globe, and after the rigorous review process, revision and based on final recommendations of the reviewers and editorial team, finally 17 manuscripts have been accepted for publication.

ANÁLISE DE SEGUNDA ORDEM DE ESTRUTURAS EM CONCRETO ARMADO

With the expressive increase in the demand for increasingly tall and robust constructions, plus more and more complex structural details that end up becoming a key element for the projects of the structures of the undertakings, it is important to consider the efforts made by the reinforced concrete structures are subjected. In this sense, the present work has as objective the approach of the parameters of global stability a and Yz followed by the verification of the efforts on the pavements and the displacements of the building caused by the loads acting on the structure. In this work, the use of the global stability parameter a and Yz, which is of fundamental relevance and also prescribed in NBR 6118 (ABNT, 2014), was evaluated. The use of the parameter a considered for the evaluation of the overall stability of the structure, but which is not capable of estimating second order efforts, allows us to classify a structure as being of fixed or mobile nodes. The Yz parameter, on the other hand, can be used to obtain second order efforts. To carry out this work, a case study was launched in the structural analysis software Ftool. The present analysis carried out showed that it is possible to conceive a bracing system for a building with up to 30 floors, using the pillar-wall solution having as a substitute resource for the aforementioned solution the solution of frames formed by beams and columns addressed continuously by tall building literature. Therefore, it is worth mentioning that the solution with wall pillars tends to be more expensive than the solution with frames, a system adopted in the development of this work due to the economic viability of the construction, in view of a higher consumption of materials in the superstructure and also higher costs in the construction. execution of foundations, due to the efforts that will be generated in the building (horizontal forces and bending moments).

The Strength of Strong Ties

Last year was a blur for many of us. Whether leading a provider organization with nurses or a college of faculty and students, or while worrying about the health and safety of immediate and extended family members, we each experienced the pandemic in different ways. Like many of you, I turned to my nurse leader colleagues for support, inspiration, commiseration, and laughter during a difficult year. I am not sure how I would have made it through the pandemic without my network of colleagues, such as a small group of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows.

Leadership Development Activities and Benefits From the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows (RJWF-ENF) program was the gold standard for executive career development of nurse leaders from 1997 to 2017. With more than two decades of experience, ENF program leaders encouraged the fellows to "trust the process" during the difficult times of leadership development and value the collegial relationships they could develop with other nurse fellows. This article describes the benefits of the Action Learning Model for leadership development through the experience of the Boom-X-2K action learning team from the RWJF-ENF final cohort of 2014-2017. The moniker Boom-X-2K was chosen to emphasize supporting the intergenerational development of nurse leaders from three generations: Baby Boomers (Boom), Generation X (X), and Millennials (2K). This article also describes the action learning team's end product: a self-assessment tool designed to evaluate leaders' self-assessed ability to influence. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2021;52(7):344-348.].

Deliberating or Stalling for Justice? Dynamics of Corporate Remediation and Victim Resistance Through the Lens of Parentalism: The Fundão dam Collapse and the Renova Foundation in Brazil

Using the political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) lens of parentalism, this paper investigates the more subtle and less-visible interactional dynamics and strategies of power, resistance and justification that manifest between a multi-stakeholder-governed foundation and victims of a mining corporation’s dam collapse. The Renova Foundation was established to provide remedy through a deliberative approach to hundreds of thousands of victims from Brazil’s worst socio-environmental disaster—the collapse of Samarco Mining Corporation’s Fundão tailings dam. Data were collected from a combination of fieldwork and archival analysis to assess the perceptions of victims, their defenders and foundation executives. The findings reveal 12 dialectical tensions from Renova’s attempts to remedy the victim’s injustices. The case analysis contributes through proposing a dialectical process model of stakeholder resistance and subversion to parentalist PCSR. The case reveals the pivotal use of time via the act of stalling as a strategic resource to exhaust victims and reach settlements. Furthermore, organizations justify their parentalism by blaming delays on the bureaucracy and shared responsibility of multi-stakeholder deliberation. Ultimately, I contend that victims must have an equal voice in the outcome of their remediation and that businesses responsible for causing harm should not decide these matters.

Reliability and geotechnical safety applied to deep foundations in precast concrete piles - case study

Abstract The Brazilian standard pertinent to the design and execution of foundations, NBR 6122/2019, establishes that the safety inspection of foundations of a given project must be conducted based on compliance with specified safety factors. Safety factor verification is imperative to meet regulatory requirements; however, it is not enough to guarantee the safety of a foundation. As there is variability in the resistance and solicitation of the piles that make up a foundation, each safety factor value reflects a failure probability. Therefore, it is fictitious that the use of an adequate safety factor value implies the absence of failure risk. Thus, a reliability analysis, applied to a real building with an access ramp whose foundations are composed of precast concrete piles, based on the probabilistic moments, mean, and coefficient of variation, associated with the variability of pile resistance and solicitation, is presented in this article. The values obtained for the safety factors (2.14 and 1.98 for the building and the ramp foundations, respectively) and failure probabilities (1:2,244 and 1:3,131 for the building and the ramp foundations, respectively) implies that the project in question has an acceptable safety level. This article allows us to conclude that a small variation in the reliability index results in a large variation in failure probability; that a greater global safety factor does not necessarily lead to a lower failure probability and it becomes evident that this reliability analysis is a practical way, to manage the uncertainties inherent in foundation design, allowing rational decision making regarding performance.

Advocating for Early-Career Nurse Innovators: Modeling the Institute of Medicine Report.

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health was published by the of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies in 2011. The Missouri Nurses Foundation and Missouri nurses modeled a sustainable project, the Early Career Nurse Innovator Project, exemplifying the intent of that report. The Missouri Nurses Foundation Executive Board comprises experienced nurses, nurse educators, nurses in other leadership roles, retired nurses, public members of the board, and administrative support staff. This article describes a project that was developed, implemented, and evaluated to recognize and encourage early-career nurses who have designed and led innovations to improve and promote the health of Missourians. Five of these early-career nurses were the recipients of monetary awards to encourage future innovations; the second recognition cycle is in the planning phase. Through the work of the Missouri Nurses Foundation, the scholarship of bedside nurses was recognized.

Ergonomic risk analysis between servants during the execution of foundations

This research has the objective of evaluating the ergonomic risks to which the servants are exposed during the execution of foundations, in a construction site. It is characterized as an exploratory-descriptive and quantitative study. The results allowed verifying the precariousness of technologies directed to the work activities performed by the servants. It is suggested, therefore, that construction companies adopt economically viable measures to minimize the ergonomic risks to which these professionals are exposed, contributing to the improvement of the quality of life at work as well as the increase of organizational productivity.

APA Foundation Presents APA Staff, Member Donations to American Red Cross

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessAPA Foundation Presents APA Staff, Member Donations to American Red CrossRebecca GreenbergRebecca GreenbergSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:26 Dec 2017https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2018.1a22AbstractThe American Psychiatric Association (APA) Foundation donated a total of $30,000 to the American Red Cross (ARC) last month for disaster relief efforts in mainland United States and Puerto Rico. The generosity of APA members and staff along with matching funds from the APA Foundation made it possible to present a total of $30,000 to the American Red Cross last month for disaster relief efforts in mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico. Participating in the ceremony were (from left) Joshua Morganstein, M.D., a member of APA’s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters; Dan Gillison, executive director of the APA Foundation; Linda Mathes, CEO of the National Capital Region of the American Red Cross; and Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A., APA CEO and medical director.David HathcoxOf that amount, $20,000 was earmarked for relief for recent disasters, including hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the California wildfires; $10,000 was earmarked specifically for Hurricane Maria relief. The remaining amount raised—$3,000—is being donated to CrearConSalud, a newly formed nonprofit created by a group of Puerto Rican psychiatrists living in the United States. The group has made a series of trips to Puerto Rico since 2015, assessing community and mental health needs and organizing educational activities on the island.The funds were donated by APA members and staff to the APA Foundation’s Disaster Relief Fund and matched by the APA Foundation. Among those who donated were members of the APA Assembly, which held a special fund-raising event at its November meeting. The check presentation was held at the ARC’s national headquarters in Fairfax, Va. Participants included APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A.; APA Foundation Executive Director Daniel Gillison; Linda Mathes, CEO of the National Capital Region of the ARC; and Joshua Morganstein, M.D., a member of APA’s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters.The funds will help support the ARC’s mental health volunteer program, made up of 3,500 licensed professionals, including psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, school counselors, and school psychologists, all of whom are trained in disaster mental health interventions. ARC program leaders, including Valerie Cole, Ph.D., who manages Disaster Health Services and Disaster Mental Health at ARC, explained during a presentation that followed the check-presentation ceremony that ARC’s mental health services operate on the assumption that most people are resilient; however, a significant minority may be at risk of developing new or aggravated psychological disorders after a disaster. Geoff DeLizzio shows APA attendees a real-time map in the American Red Cross’s Disaster Operations Coordination Center in Fairfax, Va. The map tracks analytics from single-family fires to widespread disasters such as Hurricane Maria.David HathcoxResponders provide disaster mental health interventions focused on basic care, support, and comfort for individuals experiencing disaster-related stress. Cole noted that volunteer services are meant to augment the community’s mental health resources, not replace them. In a year marked by historic hurricanes, wildfires, and other crises, the ARC deployed more than 56,000 disaster workers (92 percent of whom were volunteers) and facilitated twice as many overnight shelter stays than in the past four years combined. Workers provided 13.6 million meals; 7 million relief items such as bottled water, flashlights, and tarps; 267,000 health and mental health contacts; and financial recovery assistance for 624,000 households. Of each dollar donated to the ARC, 91 cents is spent directly on humanitarian services and programs, according to the ARC.Geoff DeLizzio, ARC’s chief development officer, took APA attendees on a tour of the ARC’s Disaster Operations Center, the ARC’s “nerve center” where ARC staff and volunteers map and monitor analytics for disasters as they occur and “pre-position” millions of supplies such as food, water, and cots for future events. In 2017 alone, ARC provided 76,000 households with recovery support after home fires and made 401,000 “home safety” visits to prevent future fires.After the tour, APA and ARC leaders gathered for discussion. APA representatives commented on the ongoing mental health challenges in areas like Puerto Rico and California wildfire zones where recovery has been slow. In addition to raising money to support humanitarian efforts, Brad Kieserman, ARC’s vice president of disaster operations and logistics, said, “We rely on the philanthropy of time. Demand for mental health care in particular often outstrips available resources.” ■Information for psychiatrists interested in becoming an ARC volunteer can be accessed here. ISSUES NewArchived

Basic Aspects of Deep Soil Mixing Technology Control

Improving a soil is a process of increasing its physical/mechanical properties without changing its natural structure. Improvement of soil subbase is reached by means of the knitted materials, or other methods when strong connection between soil particles is established. The method of DSM (Deep Soil Mixing) columns has been invented in Japan in 1970s. The main reason of designing cement-soil columns is to improve properties of local soils (such as strength and stiffness) by mixing them with various cementing materials. Cement and calcium are the most commonly used binders. However new research undertaken worldwide proves that apart from these materials, also gypsum or fly ashes can also be successfully implemented. As the Deep Soil Mixing is still being under development, anticipating mechanical properties of columns in particular soils and the usage of cementing materials in formed columns is very difficult and often inappropriate to predict. That is why a research is carried out in order to find out what binders and mixing technology should be used. The paper presents several remarks on the testing procedures related to quality and capacity control of Deep Soil Mixing columns. Soil improvement methods, their advantages and limitations are briefly described. The authors analyse the suitability of selected testing methods on subsequent stages of design and execution of special foundations works. Chosen examples from engineering practice form the basis for recommendations for the control procedures. Presented case studies concerning testing the on capacity field samples and laboratory procedures on various categories of soil-cement samples were picked from R&D and consulting works offered by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Special emphasis is paid to climate conditions which may affect the availability of performing and controlling of DSM techniques in polar zones, with a special regard to sample curing.

Should There be Laws Mandating Nurse Practitioner/Patient Ratios?

Should There be Laws Mandating Nurse Practitioner/Patient Ratios?

The mindful nurse leader: Key take-away: Go slow before you go fast.

The first and second articles in this three-part series on mindfulness described the production of the video "In the Moment: Stories of Mindfulness in Nursing" as part of the authors' Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellowship program. In this final installment, we discuss our leadership approaches and lessons learned, both as a team and individuals.

Colleen H. Swartz, DNP, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC

For Dr. Colleen Swartz, chief nurse executive of UK HealthCare (UKHC), success is achieved by providing patient- and family-centered care through the combined and coordinated efforts of the entire team. Dr. Swartz is certainly a strong proponent of the essential value of nursing, but her experience and expertise have taught her that "it's all about the team in today's complex and sometimes chaotic health care environment. And nursing leadership plays a pivotal role in making teamwork a reality. My role and, in turn, what I hope is my legacy, is to enable the entire team to find a path to patient and family as the center of our collective knowledge and interventions. At times, that is very difficult, and not always evident in light of the swirling complexity and multiple, sometimes conflicting, messages that bombard the caregiver at the bedside."