Mental Health Prescriptions; New Exhibits at Honolulu Art Museum; Women in the Workplace 

HB1072, Prescriptive Authority for Psychologists: Steve Katz

Last night on Town Square, our panel of two medical doctors, a psychologist and a psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist discussed a bill that would allow certain psychologists to have prescriptive authority. The panel represented a continuum of those in longtime support, those who had changed their minds or who were open to changing their minds with further amendments to the bill, and those staunchly opposed, regardless. It was a messy conversation about an issue Hawaii has struggled with for over a decade. Earlier we called  Steven Katz, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a board member of the  Hawaii Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. I asked him if he sees a way around the messiness of this issue to get help to people who need it.

Intro Music: Picture on the Wall by 1814

Outro Music: Psyche’s Dagger by Fly Golden Eagle

Theresa Papanikolas Honolulu Museum of Art

Modern art confuses a lot of people and the term itself is pretty confusing, because it can be applied to works that go back a century and more. How modern is that? There are few common threads among works of so-called modern art, except, perhaps, in their determination to challenge accepted notions of what art is. Theresa Papanikolas is a curator at the Honolulu Museum of Art who has heard every response imaginable to contemporary art, including the one a curators likes the least: “My kid could do that.” Two new exhibits at the museum throw down the challenge, inviting that response even as they challenge it, and she’s with us to tell us more.

Intro Music: Cranial Contest by Superhumanoids
Outro Music: Mark Rothko by Andrea Venezian

Women with Different Skills Entering Workplace: Susan Wurtzburg

Looking for and getting your first job can be an exhilarating and sometimes terrifying experience. For young women, it can also come with the knowledge that that may be paid less than a man. That’s just one of the issues women with different skills will need to navigate. To help with this issue, the American Association of University Women-Hawaii and the Manoa Career Center will offer help to women who are about to graduate from college. By making women aware of what to expect and how to speak for themselves in the job-hunting process, the organization’s say they can begin to close the gap in female representation in the workplace and in wages. AAUW Policy Chair and UH online professor, Susan Wurtzburg joins us this morning.

Intro Music: Run Wild by Laney Jones
Outro Music: One Day by Sergey Jadik

Honolulu Museum of Art School “Foreign and Familiar”Herman Pi‘ikea Clark

Contact between cultures can enrich or it can destroy, and just about everything in between. It’s a notion that has special resonance in Hawaii, and a new art exhibit at the Honolulu Museum of Art School looks at the way contact shapes our lives and our art. Herman Pi‘ikea Clark is one of the curators of “Foreign and Familiar” at the Honolulu Museum of Art School, and he’s with us this morning.

Intro Music: The Last Great American Whale by Lou Reed

Outro Music: Amataga by Te Vaka