Morgan Shields - Breaking Academia's Silence on Inpatient Psychiatry

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4.8 • 201 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Shields is one of the few health policy researchers who focuses on quality of care and issues of coercion within inpatient psychiatry. Her research exposes how current healthcare settings are influenced by power imbalances, profit structures, and organizational priorities that are fundamentally misaligned with the human needs of individual patients.

Dr. Shields completed her Ph.D. in Social Policy at Brandeis University and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also directs her own research group. She has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as Health Affairs, Psychiatric Services, and the JAMA Network.

She has also completed several policy reports for entities such as the U.S. Health and Human Services Office, and has served as a legal expert in cases related to psychiatric patient discrimination. In doing so, her research has effected change at the state and federal levels, prompting internal investigations and structural reforms within agencies such as the Veterans Health Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.

In this interview, Dr. Shields discusses her current work, which aims to identify strategies for implementing patient-centered and equitable treatment within existing mental health care structures—toward a wholesale re-imagining of inpatient psychiatry.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:13.1	Hello and welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Julia Lejeune. I'm a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago
0:25.2	and a science news writer at Mad in America.
0:29.1	This week, we will hear from Dr. Morgan Shields.
0:33.8	Dr. Shields completed her PhD in social policy at Brandeis University and is currently an assistant professor at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also directs her own research group.
0:50.3	Dr. Shields is one of the few health policy researchers who focuses on quality of care within
0:56.5	inpatient psychiatry.
0:59.3	She has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as health affairs, psychiatric
1:05.6	services, and the JAMA network.
1:09.0	She has also completed several policy reports for entities,
1:13.3	such as the U.S. Health and Human Services Office,
1:16.6	and has served as a legal expert in cases related to psychiatric patient discrimination.
1:23.7	Dr. Shields' research exposes the ways in which current health care settings are influenced by
1:29.6	power imbalances, profit structures, and organizational priorities that fundamentally misalign with
1:37.1	the human needs of individual patients. Her research has affected change at the state and federal
1:43.3	levels,
1:50.9	prompting internal investigations and structural reforms within agencies such as the Veterans Health Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.
1:54.6	Today on the podcast, we'll be discussing Dr. Shield's current work,
1:59.0	which aims to identify strategies for implementing
2:02.6	patient-centered and equitable treatment within existing mental health care structures,
2:08.2	and in doing so, reimagines inpatient psychiatry.
2:12.3	Dr. Shields, thank you so much for being here and taking the time out.
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