Generational trauma impacts how African Americans experience mental distress. All of these contribute to ongoing health disparities within the African American community. This chapter discusses the challenges African Americans experience accessing and acquiring quality care in the United States and explore ...
Ramseur says a healthy mental state for an African-American is based on high self-esteem, positive racial identity, and adapting coping styles. Both articles talk about the different things that have set African-Americans back such as family, income, and psychical health. Throughout the years Af...
Getting mad but ending up sad: the mental health consequences for African Americans using anger to cope with racism. J Black Stud. 2011;42:1106-24.Pittman, C. T. (2011). Getting mad but ending up sad: The mental health consequences for African Americans using anger to cope with racism....
Here are four common challenges African-Americans face and discuss in therapy: 1) The desire to be understood. One major element and challenge in therapy for African-Americans is the desire to be understood, as explained by Mental Health Therapist Shemiah Derrick:“The therapy experience for ...
mental health financingMedicaidoutpatient treatmentThe present study tested the hypothesis that Medicaid-financed African Americans would be more likely to receive outpatient mental health treatment than African Americans whose treatment was financed by private insurance. The hypothesis was confirmed: when ...
- 《Journal of Health Care for the Poor & Underserved》 被引量: 16发表: 2015年 Using Peer Navigators to Address the Integrated Health Care Needs of Homeless African Americans With Serious Mental Illness 2017. Using peer navigators to address the integrated health care needs of homeless african ...
Less than 3% of older adults utilize professional mental health services for the treatment of depression, less than any other adult age group. And despite similar rates of depression, African Americans are significantly less likely to seek, engage and be retained in professional mental health ...
This study examined 184 African-American outpatients in a mental health clinic in the inner city to define the rate of occurrence of traumatic experience and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This population experienced a high rate of severe trauma. Forty-three percent were found to have PTSD...
The impact of racism on African American personality, behavior, and health has been debated in the psychological literature. There has been little research... VLS Thompson - 《Community Mental Health Journal》 被引量: 315发表: 1996年 Racism: perceptions of distress among African Americans. Some ...
When compared to others, African Americans typically have poorer health outcomes and experience greater rates of cardiovascular-related diseases and depression. The purpose of this qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis (QIMS) was to understand physical and mental health experiences among African American ...