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Courtney McMickens

Courtney McMickens

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
411 W Chapel Hill Street, Box 104426, Durham, NC 27710
411 W Chapel Hill Street, Box 104426, Durham, NC 27710
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Selected Publications

Justice-Involved Youth: Support for Community and Family Interventions.

Journal Article Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am · October 2024 Justice-involved youth have high rates of mental health symptoms and diagnoses. Unaddressed mental health needs are associated with exposure to adversity and trauma, as well as unidentified or mislabeled symptoms that may be present early in life. Justice- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental Health Crisis Responses and (In)Justice: Intrasystem and Intersystem Implications.

Journal Article Psychiatr Clin North Am · September 2024 Mental health crises among people who are marginalized merit special consideration. These groups are both overserved and underserved by mental health crisis systems: over-represented in acute treatment settings by number while facing inequities in outcomes ... Full text Link to item Cite

CHILD WELFARE INTERVENTIONS AND SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WHO EXPERIENCE TRAUMA

Conference Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · October 2022 Full text Cite

Striving for Equity in Community Mental Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Care for BIPOC Youth.

Journal Article Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am · April 2022 Supporting the mental health of youth who identify as Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Color (BIPOC) continues to be a challenge for clinicians and policymakers alike. Children and adolescents are a vulnerable population, and for BIPOC youth, these vulnera ... Full text Link to item Cite

Structural Violence with Child Welfare Systems

Journal Article Psychiatric Annals · November 1, 2021 The child welfare system is a collection of public and private agencies tasked with ensuring the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in the United States. Historically, child welfare policies have caused harm along economic and racial lines, and ... Full text Cite

Two Systems, One Population:: Achieving Equity in Mental Healthcare for Criminal Justice and Marginalized Populations.

Journal Article Psychiatr Clin North Am · September 2020 The mental health system is often not readily accessible, culturally responsive, or a reliable source of effective interventions for society's most vulnerable populations. Modern-era studies estimate the number of persons diagnosed with serious mental illn ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Qualitative Exploration of Mothers' Experiences Receiving Mental Health Services in a Supermarket Setting.

Journal Article Matern Child Health J · April 2019 Objectives Innovative mental health care delivery models have been proposed as a method to address disparities in access and utilization. The aim of this study is to characterize patients' perspectives and experiences of participating in one such innovativ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression

Chapter · September 12, 2018 Children with depression often first present with symptoms in the primary care setting. Because the clinical presentation in children can vary from the classic melancholy presentation that characterizes adult depression, symptoms often go unrecognized or m ... Full text Cite

Posttraumatic Symptom Reporting and Reported Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy.

Journal Article J Womens Health (Larchmt) · June 2017 INTRODUCTION: Increased prevalence of nicotine dependence among individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is well established. However, there are limited studies on the prevalence of smoking during pregnancy in relation to prepregnanc ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Readiness for Integrated Care Questionnaire (RICQ): An instrument to assess readiness to integrate behavioral health and primary care.

Journal Article Am J Orthopsychiatry · 2017 Integration of behavioral health and primary care services is a promising approach for reducing health disparities. The growing national emphasis on care coordination has mobilized efforts to integrate behavioral health and primary care services across the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Safety assessment in schools: beyond risk: the role of child psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

Journal Article Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am · April 2015 This article presents an overview of a comprehensive school safety assessment approach for students whose behavior raises concern about their potential for targeted violence. Case vignettes highlight the features of 2 youngsters who exemplify those seen, t ... Full text Link to item Cite

AIDS

Book · January 1, 2011 This comprehensive review examines the biological, medical, social, historical, and political aspects of HIV/AIDS. In AIDS, three Harvard-educated physicians explore the evolution of the HIV epidemic, contextualizing the disease from historical, social, an ... Cite