Sarah Y. Vinson, M.D.  

Social Justice and Mental Health, Decriminalization of Trauma and Mental Illness, Black Mental Health

• McMickens, C., Jackson, N., Williams, K., Reese, L., Hardeman, L., Vinson, S. Justice-Involved Youth: Support for Community and Family Interventions. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2024; 33(4). doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2024.02.005.

• Williams, K., French, A., Jackson, N., McMickens, C., White, D., Vinson, S. Mental Health Crisis Responses and (In)Justice: Intrasystem and Intersystem Implications. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2024, Volume 47, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2024.04.001

• Ogbu-Nwobodo, L., Shim, R., Vinson, S., Fitelson, E., Biggs, A., McLemore, M., Thomas, M., Godzich, M., Mangurian, C.. Mental Health Implication of Abortion Restrictions for Historically Marginalized Populations. The New England Journal of Medicine, October 2022, Volume 387,#17. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211124

• Wamuo, C., Pearson, M., Vinson, S. The Collaborative Advocate: Psychiatrists’ Role in Addressing Criminal Legal Involvement,Psychiatric Services, October 2022. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.22073010

• Goldman, M., Vinson, S. Centering Equity in Mental Health Crisis Services. World Psychiatry. May 2022, Volume 21, #2. doi.org/10.1002/wps.20968

• Vinson, S., Dennis, A. Systemic, Racial Justice-Informed Solutions to Shift “Care” from the Criminal Legal to the Mental Health Care System. Psychiatric Services. 2021, 72(12):1428-1433

• Vinson, S. Structural Trauma and Psychiatric Practice: A Call to Action. Psychiatric Annals. 2021, 51(11):505. doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20211021-01

• Vinson, S., Kamara, A. Disabled Individuals and Structural Trauma: Implications for Mental Health Providers. Psychiatric Annals. 2021, 51(11):513-515. doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20211012-01

• Shadravan S.M., Edwards M.L., Vinson, S. Dying at the Intersections: Police-Involved Killings of Black People With Mental Illness. Psychiatric Services. 2021, 72(6):623-625. doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000942

• Robles-Ramamurthy, B., Coombs, A., Wilson, W., Vinson, S. Black Children and the Pressing Need for Anti-Racism in Child Psychiatry. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021, 60(4):432-434 https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(20)32150-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

• Murray, P., Vinson, SY. Social Determinants of Children’s Mental Health. In: Parekh, R., Al-Mateen, C., Lisotto, M., Carter, R. eds. Cultural Psychiatry in Children, Adolescents, and Families. American Psychiatric Association Publishing; 2020. Chapter 10.

• Fowler, B., Vinson, S. Digital Media, Culture, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health In: Parekh, R., Al-Mateen, C., Lisotto, M., Carter, R. eds. Cultural Psychiatry in Children, Adolescents, and Families. American Psychiatric Association Publishing; 2020. Chapter 14./li>

• Shim, RS, Vinson, SY. eds. Social (In)Justice and Mental Health. American Psychiatric Association Publishing. 2020

• Vinson, S., Waldman, R. The Pandemic Paused the U.S. School to Prison Pipeline: Potential Lessons Learned. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 2020, 4(11):799-800. 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30306-0
• Vinson, S., Coffey, TT, Jackson, N, McMickens, CL, McGregor, B, Leifman, S. Two Systems, One Population: Mental Healthcare, Criminal Justice and Marginalized Populations Living with Mental Illness. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2020, 43(3):525-538. doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2020.05.006

Presentations

Academic Grand Rounds and National Peer-Reviewed Presentations

 

• We Should All Be Child Advocates: A Call to Action for All In Promoting Population Mental Health

• Social (In)Justice and Mental Health

• Social Determinants of Children’s Mental Health

• Ghosts in the Office : Structural Racism and Black Mental Health Inequities

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Impairment and (Under)Treatment and Stigma

• 2023 Andrea Delgado Memorial Lecture Award Black Psychiatrists of America
• 2022 Creative Scholarship Award from The Society for the Study of Psychiatry Culture for the text Social (In)Justice and Mental Health
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Society
• 2020 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award
• 2020 APA Minority Fellowship Jeanne Spurlock Outstanding Alumna Award
• 2018 University of Florida College of Medicine Outstanding Young Alumna Award

Professional Societies

• American College of Psychiatry
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Association of Community Psychiatry
• American Psychiatric Association
• Black Psychiatrists of America