Mabry And Kiecolt's Article Summary

Furthermore, the prevalence of mental has large racial differences on the physical aspects of their health status. It comes across outcomes that tend to be persistent over time. For most procedures, physical health status in blacks has higher rates in indisposition and humanity than whites. There is some growing evidence that stress and poor social conditions may play such a role in these higher rates of illness in socially disadvantaged populations (Williams,1999). Also, can be plenty of assumptions that are in socially disadvantage groups. Where African Americans are those being elevated at risk of mental health problems. It’s

Race and ethnicity are terms that are commonly mistaken for one another every day. According to sociologists and authors, Markus and Moya, race is a “dynamic set of historically derived and institutionalized ideas and practices that group certain people according to physical and behavioral human characteristics that are negative and shared.” Race was developed on a social context due to the fact that the dominant cultures labeled people with darker skin tones as different and inferior. Ethnicity is a “group of ideas and practices that allows people to identify with groups of people on the basis of presumed, and usually claimed commonalities” (Markus and Moya 2010: p.22) Country of origin, language, and physical characteristics are some

Cultural bias can arise when “mental health assumptions, assessments, and interventions that were developed in one culture is implemented in a totally different one” (Pedersen & Marsella, 1982).

Race should never be a determining factor to how an individual is judged, however, society has overtime created racial stigmas that cause individuals to view one other in negative ways. The U.S. Census Bureau of 1987 defines race by separating them into many different categories. It describes White as a person having origins in any of the original people of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa, Black or African American as a person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa, and American Indian or Alaska Native as a person having origins in any of the original people of North and South America. It also describes Asian as a person having origins in any of the original people of the Far East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific

Race and Ethnicity both relate to biological and sociological factors respectively, and even though they can overlap, they are distinct. The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics (which usually result from genetic ancestry). Race presumes shared biological or genetic traits, whether actual or asserted and the category to which others assign individuals on the basis of physical characteristics. Races are assumed to be distinguished by skin color, eye color or hair type. However, the scientific studies based on racial distinctions show that racial genetic differences are very weak except in skin color (National Association of Social Workers, 2015).

Race and Ethnicity are integral parts of America. They are often used interchangeably. Race is associated with biology. It is a socially and politically constructed category of individuals who are assumed to share common inborn biological traits, such as bone structure, hair type, skin, or eye color. These distinctions have been used to the detriment or advantage of American groups over time. Whereas ethnicity is associated with culture factors. It is often tied to nationality of origin and characterized by a person’s ethnic traits, customs, and/or associations. Race and ethnicity in some ways go hand in hand and in other ways differ. Although the similarities are not quite the same they still have the same concept. Today’s society plays a huge role in defining these terms.

Another significant psychological effect of racism is its attack on the ego identity of its victims. Negative images of blacks are pervasive in American culture. The age-old proverb that 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me ' does not ring true for the effect that believing

In this article the authors made a superb explanation about race/ethnicity. The article stated that society (United State) view everything into a category. The reason why society view race/ethnicity into categories is for Census purpose. Consequently in viewing race/ethnicity into category a stigmatization is behold on different ethnicity that can’t signified with some races. Although, some ethnicity have some phenotype features similarity, demographically speaking there may not be no relations. Therefore leaving a stereotype that certain race/ethnicity are the same and plainly speaking no relations. Subsequently, leaving a vast majority picking the ethnicity before

Recognizing culture is important because each culture has its own framework for understanding and interpreting mental illness, which in return affects the acceptance of mental health services (Kirmayer 2012). For Hispanics, the family serves as a source of direction and support in times of need, along with creating a general tendency towards a collective orientation rather than an individualistic orientation. This may result in a preference for seeking help from family and friends, along with a distrust of outsiders. However, when mental health services are supportive of families and utilize culturally appropriate models or language, the family can be a promoter to accessing mental health services (Bledsoe 2008). The importance of family has

In the United States, people use to classify Native Americans, African-Americans and European-Americans, as belonging to different races. For nearly three centuries, the criteria for membership in these groups were similar, comprising a person's appearance, his fraction of known non-White ancestry, and his social circle. But the criteria for membership

3. Disparities in mental health care should be recognized in terms of race, culture, and ethnicity

First, it important to highlight the difference between race and ethnicity. Race commonly refers to groups of individuals that share similar physical and social characteristic where as ethnical focus more on national and cultural similarities. For example, someone may identify their race as being black, but their ethnicity as being African American. Over the past few decades, there have been multiple scales developed to measures a person racial and/or ethic identity. Due to distinct characters of different groups studies a review of the literature on racial and ethnic identity shows that the majority of research on racial identity has focused on African American (black) and European American (white) samples and

There is no way to address what we’ve covered in this class without first addressing what the concepts of race and ethnicity mean. This is a definition that is constructed differently in every text that we’ve read, and it’s possible that every student in the class had differing definitions of race at the beginning of the semester. Personally I think that we’ve agreed on certain aspects of that definition as the class progressed and we’ve read different texts, but obviously the construction of race holds a different meaning for everyone. In the beginning of the semester, when asked to define the difference between race and ethnicity, I stated that race was a collection of physical features that are grouped together, while ethnicity also takes

The author states that though racial research is being conducted for whole populations, there is not much research for the variance within a racial or ethnic group. The author also believes that race and ethnicity are typically and wrongfully pushed together into one big group. She argues that the two terms actually have very different meanings. Race refers to the way one looks outwardly. Whereas ethnicity, is one’s personal heritage or history. The article stresses the importance of differentiating between the

In chapter two, LaVeist discusses how race factors in conceptual issues in the United States. He states, In the United States, race and ethnicity is a factor in nearly every aspect of society, including politics, economics, music, art, and literature.” (LaVeist, 2005, p. 15) Race and ethnicity is used so frequently in health studies that is important to say that is included in the conceptual issues that a lot of people face. The point of what race and ethnicity really means was discussed in this chapter. In this chapter it was said that race undergoes four major problems. These problems are, “ (1) the concept has not been clearly defined nor consistently applied, (2) there is no consensus definition of race, (3) race is often confounded