Dismantling Structural Racism in Psychiatry: A Path to Mental Health Equity
KEY CONCEPTS
Conceptualizing Race and Structural Racism
Mental Health Disparities and Inequities
What Is Social Justice?
HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF PSYCHIATRIC PSEUDOSCIENCE
MODERN EXAMPLES OF STRUCTURAL RACISM IN PSYCHIATRY
Residential Segregation
The “War on Drugs”
Mental Health Care Access
DISMANTLING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN PSYCHIATRY
“We are asking white psychiatrists to become increasingly aware of how their everyday practices continue to perpetuate institutional white racism in psychiatry and to support the search for realistic solutions to providing psychiatric services to black people. We ask white psychiatrists to provide strong sanction and support to these efforts. This means making available the necessary resources of money, manpower, and authority—and not just in the current token amounts. It means not defending the vested white interests in old institutional forms of professionalism when new strategies and roles are suggested; it means a significant reduction in economic barriers to psychiatric care; it means relinquishing negative stereotypes of the black patient; it means truly sharing administrative decision making with black colleagues and black communities.”
Education and Self-Reflection
Changing Social Norms
Addressing Public Policies
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