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Black psychiatrists say focus on racial, health equity needed in the field
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.32439
Subject(s) - equity (law) , racism , white (mutation) , health equity , psychiatry , criminology , white paper , political science , psychology , sociology , gender studies , law , health care , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
More than 50 years ago, a group of Black psychiatrists stormed an American Psychiatric Association (APA) meeting demanding racial equity. Recommendations that were subsequently put forth for white psychiatrists to become more aware of how their everyday practices continue to perpetuate institutional white racism in psychiatry went unheeded, according to two prominent Black psychiatrists who say the challenges then still exist today.