This book addresses the unique sociocultural and historical systems of oppression that have
alienated African-American and other racial minority patients within the mental healthcare
system. This text aims to build a novel didactic curriculum addressing racism justice and
community mental health as these issues intersect clinical practice. Unlike any other resource
this guide moves beyond an exploration of the problem of racism and its detrimental effects to
a practical solution-oriented discussion of how to understand and approach the mental health
consequences with a lens and sensitivity for contemporary justice issues. After establishing
the historical context of racism within organized medicine and psychiatry the text boldly
examines contemporary issues including clinical biases in diagnosis and treatment addiction
and incarceration and perspectives on providing psychotherapy to racial minorities. The text
concludes with chapters covering training and medical education within this sphere approaches
to supporting patients coping with racism and discrimination and strategies for changing
institutional practices in mental healthcare.Written by thought leaders in the field Racism
and Psychiatry is the only current tool for psychiatrists psychologists administrators
educators medical students social workers and all clinicians working to treat patients
dealing with issues of racism at the point of mental healthcare.
