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New APA task force seeks to address structural racism through psychiatry
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32430
Subject(s) - racism , task force , action (physics) , psychology , work (physics) , task (project management) , association (psychology) , psychiatry , criminology , sociology , medicine , political science , psychotherapist , management , gender studies , engineering , public administration , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , economics
Amid increasing calls from psychiatrists to take action on racism, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) on July 2 announced it has begun its work on addressing racism with initial efforts to gauge psychiatrists' impressions on the effects of structural racism on their patients, which will help inform their work going forward.