In this episode, we welcome Dr. Shannon Peters(She/Her, peterss@bu.edu), a lecturer at the Department of Health Sciences at BU Sargent College. She introduced transgender mental health and healthcare, and how we could support transgender individuals.
Shannon’s Scholarly, Research and/or Practice Interests include:
* Impacts of systemic oppression, discrimination, and trauma on the mental health of marginalized individuals (e.g., race, LGBTQAI+, immigration status, etc.)
* Transgender healthcare and mental health
* Gender-based violence response and prevention
* Institutional corruption and financial conflicts of interest in psychiatry and psychology
* Medical neoliberalism and depathologizing normative distress in global mental health
The moderator of the podcast is Dr. Karen Jacobs (kjacobs@bu.edu), who is the Associate Dean, Digital Learning and Innovation, a Clinical Professor and the Program Director for the online post-professional doctorate in the occupational therapy program at Sargent College.
Marial Williams (marialw@bu.edu), a Boston University entry-level occupational therapy doctoral student, composed the music for the podcast.
