Racism And Psychiatry

Author : Morgan M. Medlock,Derri Shtasel,Nhi-Ha T. Trinh,David R. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319901978

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Racism and Psychiatry by Morgan M. Medlock,Derri Shtasel,Nhi-Ha T. Trinh,David R. Williams Pdf

This book addresses the unique sociocultural and historical systems of oppression that have alienated African-American and other racial minority patients within the mental healthcare system. This text aims to build a novel didactic curriculum addressing racism, justice, and community mental health as these issues intersect clinical practice. Unlike any other resource, this guide moves beyond an exploration of the problem of racism and its detrimental effects, to a practical, solution-oriented discussion of how to understand and approach the mental health consequences with a lens and sensitivity for contemporary justice issues. After establishing the historical context of racism within organized medicine and psychiatry, the text boldly examines contemporary issues, including clinical biases in diagnosis and treatment, addiction and incarceration, and perspectives on providing psychotherapy to racial minorities. The text concludes with chapters covering training and medical education within this sphere, approaches to supporting patients coping with racism and discrimination, and strategies for changing institutional practices in mental healthcare. Written by thought leaders in the field, Racism and Psychiatry is the only current tool for psychiatrists, psychologists, administrators, educators, medical students, social workers, and all clinicians working to treat patients dealing with issues of racism at the point of mental healthcare.

Author : Suman Fernando
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319627281

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Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology by Suman Fernando Pdf

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and scientifically grounded system. Drawing on a lifetime of experience as a practicing psychiatrist, he examines how the system has shifted in response to new forms of racism which have emerged since the 1960s, highlighting the widespread pathologization of black people, the impact of Islamophobia on clinical practice after 9/11, and various struggles to reform. Engaging and accessible, this book makes a compelling case for the entrenchment of racism across all aspects of psychiatry and clinical psychology, and calls for a paradigm shift in both theory and practice.

Author : Alexander Thomas,Samuel Sillen
Publisher : Bruner Meisel U
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015008609573

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Racism and Psychiatry by Alexander Thomas,Samuel Sillen Pdf

Author : Kamaldeep Bhui
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1846423368

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Racism and Mental Health by Kamaldeep Bhui Pdf

This thought-provoking book investigates the impact of racism (both conscious and unconscious) in mental health settings, covering individual clinical encounters and the broader picture of service provision. The authors offer insights into manifestations of racism in contemporary Britain; racial and cultural identity and the significance of these in psychotherapy; and the inequalities in provision of mental health services to minority ethnic communities. They consider the problems of racism and mental health, not in isolation but in the larger context of cultural difference and social inequalities, and also on the level of human relationships. Bringing together the experiences of mental health professionals and incorporating a service user's perspective, this book provides many practical strategies for addressing racism and dealing with its effects in psychiatric work, and will prove useful and informative to practitioners in many areas of mental health work.

Author : Alexander Thomas,Samuel Sillen
Publisher : Bruner Meisel U
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015001649469

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Racism and Psychiatry by Alexander Thomas,Samuel Sillen Pdf

Author : Craig Newnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000382228

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Racism in Psychology by Craig Newnes Pdf

Racism in Psychology examines the history of racism in psychological theory, practice and institutions. The book offers critical reviews by scholars and practising therapists from the US, Africa, Asia, Aoteoroa New Zealand, Australia and Europe on racism on the couch and in the wider socio-historical context. The authors present a mixed experience of the success of efforts to counter racism in theory, institutions and organisations and differing views on the possibility of institutional change. Chapters discuss the experience of therapists, anti-Semitism, inter-sectionality and how psychological praxis is part of a colonialist project. The book will appeal to practising psychologists and counsellors, socially minded psychotherapists, social workers, sociologists and students of psychology, social studies and race relations.

Author : Mab Segrest
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781620972984

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Administrations of Lunacy by Mab Segrest Pdf

"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054173375

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suman Fernando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317557692

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Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals) by Suman Fernando Pdf

As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of this development. Throughout, the book is informed by an awareness of issues of race and culture and of their difficult interactions, the author emphasising both the frequency of racist attitudes and the very real cultural distinctions in our society, distinctions that can be used to mask what are actually racist sentiments. What emerges is not just a plea for an anti-racist, culture sensitive psychiatry, but a blueprint for how this can be brought about. He argued that the shift towards community work and social psychiatry could reorientate the profession by confronting it with its social setting and responsibilities. This book represented a significant contribution to this literature for all mental health professionals and social scientists with an interest in this field at the time; the author has gone on to write many more.

Author : Robert T. Carter,Thomas D. Scheuermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351373111

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Confronting Racism by Robert T. Carter,Thomas D. Scheuermann Pdf

This book proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct and reverse the course of the past and catalyze the stalled efforts of the present. It will do so by focusing on those specific aspects of law and legal theory that intersect with psychological research and practice. In Part I, the historical and current underpinnings of racial injustice and the obstacles to combating racism are introduced. Part II examines the documented psychological and emotional effects of racism, including race-based traumatic stress. In Part III, the authors analyze the application of forensic mental health assessment in addressing race-related experiences and present a legal and policy framework for reforming institutional and organizational policies. Finally, in part IV the authors advocate for a close, collaborative approach among legal and mental health professionals and their clients to seek redress for racial discrimination. Confronting Racism provides a framework for legal, mental health, and other related social science professionals and leaders to acknowledge and act on the harmful aspects of our societal systems.

Author : Suman Fernando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135452711

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Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry by Suman Fernando Pdf

Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry explores how and why black and minority ethnic communities have little confidence in mental health services.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Mental health
ISBN : MINN:31951P005986915

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monnica T. Williams,Daniel C. Rosen,Jonathan W. Kanter
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781684031986

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Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities by Monnica T. Williams,Daniel C. Rosen,Jonathan W. Kanter Pdf

Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities offers concrete guidelines and evidence-based best practices for addressing racial inequities and biases in clinical care. Perhaps there is no subject more challenging than the intricacies of race and racism in American culture. More and more, it has become clear that simply teaching facts about cultural differences between racial and ethnic groups is not adequate to achieve cultural competence in clinical care. One must also consider less “visible” constructs—including implicit bias, stereotypes, white privilege, intersectionality, and microaggressions—as potent drivers of behaviors and attitudes. In this edited volume, three leading experts in race, mental health, and contextual behavior science explore the urgent problem of racial inequities and biases, which often prevent people of color from seeking mental health services—leading to poor outcomes if and when they do receive treatment. In this much-needed resource, you’ll find evidence-based recommendations for addressing problems at multiple levels, and best practices for compassionately and effectively helping clients across a range of cultural groups and settings. As more and more people gain access to services that have historically been unavailable to them, guidelines for cultural competence in clinical care are needed. Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities offers a comprehensive road map to help you address racial health disparities and improve treatment outcomes in your practice.

Author : Charles V Willie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135346782

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Mental Health, Racism And Sexism by Charles V Willie Pdf

Following their book "Racism and Mental Health", the authors here re-examine the intersections of racism and mental health, adding sexism as another divisive issue that profoundly affects mental health. The book aims to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary controversial issues, including: interracial adoptions, teenage motherhood, gender bias in mental health diagnosis and therapy, prisons used as substitutes for hospitals, homeless families, and increasing violence in the home and on the streets.

Author : Robert T. Carter,Alex L. Pieterse
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231550130

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Measuring the Effects of Racism by Robert T. Carter,Alex L. Pieterse Pdf

A large body of research has established a causal relationship between experiences of racial discrimination and adverse effects on mental and physical health. In Measuring the Effects of Racism, Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse offer a manual for mental health professionals on how to understand, assess, and treat the effects of racism as a psychological injury. Carter and Pieterse provide guidance on how to recognize the psychological effects of racism and racial discrimination. They propose an approach to understanding racism that connects particular experiences and incidents with a person’s individual psychological and emotional response. They detail how to evaluate the specific effects of race-based encounters that produce psychological distress and possibly impairment or trauma. Carter and Pieterse outline therapeutic interventions for use with individuals and groups who have experienced racial trauma, and they draw attention to the importance of racial awareness for practitioners. The book features a racial-trauma assessment toolkit, including a race-based traumatic-stress symptoms scale and interview schedule. Useful for both scholars and practitioners, including social workers, educators, and counselors, Measuring the Effects of Racism offers a new framework of race-based traumatic stress that helps legitimize psychological reactions to experiences of racism.