Overview
- The only current text to offer a foundation in addressing racism within mental health care
- Offers clinical guidelines for fighting racial injustice within mental health care
- Written by thought leaders in the field
Part of the book series: Current Clinical Psychiatry (CCPSY)
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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contemporary Issues
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Contemporary Interventions
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Morgan M. Medlock, MD, MDiv, MPH, Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, Howard University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Derri Shtasel, MD, MPH, Director, Division of Public and Community Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nhi-Ha T. Trinh, MD, MPH, Director, MGH Psychiatry Center for Diversity, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard University, Department of African and African American Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Racism and Psychiatry
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Issues and Interventions
Editors: Morgan M. Medlock, Derri Shtasel, Nhi-Ha T. Trinh, David R. Williams
Series Title: Current Clinical Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90197-8
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90196-1Published: 18 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07959-8Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90197-8Published: 04 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2626-241X
Series E-ISSN: 2626-2398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Psychology, general, General Practice / Family Medicine, Public Health