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2014-2025
City College of New York
2016-2025
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are vulnerable poor mental health over their life course, in ways that often determined by structural factors which generate and perpetuate intergenerational cycles of disadvantage health. Addressing these challenges is an imperative matter justice. In this paper we provide a roadmap address the determinants cause ill Relying as far possible on high-quality evidence, first map out literature supports causal link between later outcomes....
Black adults experience depression that is more severe than of their White counterparts, yet they are less likely to receive treatment from a mental health professional. This study aimed examine the relationships between medical mistrust or trust and willingness seek care.
Stigma is a significant impediment to the successful treatment of individuals with mental illness, especially among racial minority groups. Although limited, literature suggests that African Americans are more likely than Caucasians believe people illnesses dangerous. The authors reexamined this issue and assessed whether differences also extend beliefs about how illness should be treated if violent.A nationally representative probability sample 1,241 respondents participated in telephone...
The race-based traumatic stress theory (Carter, 2007) suggests that some racial- and ethnic-minority individuals experience racial discrimination as psychological trauma, it may elicit a response comparable to posttraumatic stress. In the present study, we examined this further by determining relation between dissociation, common trauma exposure. Further, whether active coping strategies specifically employed cope with related less dissociative symptomatology.
<h3>Importance</h3> Police violence is reportedly widespread in the United States and may pose a significant risk to public mental health. <h3>Objective</h3> To examine association between 12-month exposure police concurrent health symptoms independent of trauma history, crime involvement, other forms interpersonal exposure. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> This cross-sectional, general population survey study 1221 eligible adults was conducted Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, York,...
Abstract Extended maternal separations before age 5 were evaluated as a predictor of long-term risk for offspring borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms in longitudinal data from large random community sample. Early mother predicted elevations BPD assessed repeatedly early adolescence to middle adulthood. also slower than normal rate decline with age. Other theoretically grounded risks examined and shown predict elevated over the developmental trajectory. Long-term effects largely...
Members of racial/ethnic minority groups are less likely than Caucasians to access mental health services despite recent evidence more favorable attitudes regarding treatment effectiveness. The present study explored this discrepancy by examining racial differences in beliefs about how the natural course and seriousness illnesses relate perceived analysis is based on a nationally representative sample 583 Caucasian 82 African American participants vignette experiment people living with...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects racial socialization and identity on adjustment in Black college students. Self-report questionnaires were administered 141 students from a predominantly White university racially diverse college. findings suggest that positively contributes academic adjustment. An internalized-multicultural contributed overall adjustment, pre-encounter miseducated negatively contributed. Internalized Afrocentric related Implications for multicultural...
Abstract Aim: Stigma is pervasive among families of individuals with psychotic disorders and includes both general ‘associative’ stigma – that is, the process by which a person stigmatized virtue association another individual. These forms may present barrier to help seeking. However, little known about in early stages evolving disorder. Methods: Family members 11 at clinical high risk nine patients recent‐onset psychosis were evaluated for generalized associative using Opinions Mental...
Objectives: This study compared stigma associated with the psychosis risk label and diagnostic labels for nonpsychotic psychotic mental disorders among young adult peers. Methods: Urban college respondents (N=153) read an experimental vignette describing a experiencing prodromal symptoms who was randomly assigned (major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, or without accurate information about label) answered questions toward individual in vignette. Results: Compared...
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Importance The protective ethnic density effect hypothesis, which suggests that minoritized individuals who grow up in neighborhoods with a high proportion of ethnoracial groups are protected from the effects perceived discrimination, has not been examined among at clinical risk psychosis (CHR-P). This level examination may help identify intervention targets for preventing high-risk individuals. Objective To examine association between area-level during childhood, and outcomes CHR-P. Design,...
An estimated 1 in 4 women the United States will be raped their lifetimes. Approximately 75% of all rapes are date or acquaintance rapes. Recently illegal use flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), a benzodiazepine, as prelude to assault has been reported. Flunitrazepam readily dissolves, and once solution, is colorless, odorless, tasteless. The predominant clinical manifestations drowsiness, impaired motor skills, anterograde amnesia. Due amnestic effects flunitrazepam, historical clues rape event...
Abstract Aim Self‐reported experiences of racial discrimination have been associated with a continuum psychotic in and ethnic minority populations; however, the underlying mechanisms this relationship are not yet clear. Race‐based rejection sensitivity ( RS ‐race) has thought intrusions about being target discrimination; therefore, present study aimed to determine whether ‐race accounts for between psychotic‐like populations. Methods A sample 644 young adults from US urban, predominantly...