Behavioral and Cultural Health

Yumlish: Diabetes and Multicultural Nutrition

Dr. Fernandez talks to us about behavioral health, integrated behavioral health care models, and how those are related to his other specialty, cultural psychiatry.

Pedro José Fernandez, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center. He serves as CO- Chief of Psychiatry at Parkland Health. Dr. Fernandez earned his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine and holds board certification in Addiction Medicine and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.

“​​Depression is one of those things that becomes this insurmountable beast at times where even the simplest tasks are very challenging. So, if you have diabetes and depression, you could see how that could then really severely impact your overall course and diabetes. And then that ends up being this vicious cycle where the more uncontrolled your diabetes is, the more could contribute to depression, then vice versa, the more you're depressed, the less likely you might adhere to diabetes treatments.”

Question of the Day: What is one thing you could do or are doing to improve your behavioral health?

On This Episode You Will Learn:

Behavioral Health

Cultural Health

Cultural Psychiatry

Integrated Behavioral Health Care

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Key Points:

00:00 - Intro with Shireen!

01:13 - Can you talk to us about why you decided to move into the field of psychiatry and how you became focused on behavioral health and cultural psychiatry?

04:51 - What is the correlation between diabetes and depression?

07:00 - Can you speak to the stigma associated with mental health and what is being done to overcome it?

09:46 - What can health systems do to address mental health?

17:00 - Your most recent publication is about integrated behavioral health care (IBHC) models and the benefits of implementing them in existing health care systems. Can you tell us integrated behavioral health care models are and how implementing them can meet needs in today’s health care systems?

19:24 - How could IBHC models potentially help patients from a cultural psychiatry perspective?

21:56 - What are some challenges predicted in the implementation of IBHC models? How could those be addressed most effectively?

24:05 - How can our listeners connect with you and learn more about your work?

25:03 - Outro with Shireen!

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