scholarly journals Mental Health Diagnostic Considerations in Racial/Ethnic Minority Youth

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1926-1940 ◽  
Author(s):  
June Liang ◽  
Brittany E. Matheson ◽  
Jennifer M. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Racial Ethnic

scholarly journals Developing a Policy Brief on Child Mental Health Disparities to Promote Strategies for Advancing Equity among Racial/Ethnic Minority Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supp2) ◽  
pp. 421-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Butler ◽  
Caryn R. R. Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Child Mental Health ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Research has identified a broad range of risk factors during early childhood that have neurobiological consequences and negatively affect children’s mental health. Such risk factors disproportionately affect racial/ethnic minority youth. Disparities in children’s mental health service use have also been documented for minority youth. Yet, compared with the focus on strategies to address health disparities (including men­tal health disparities) during adulthood, very little work has concentrated on addressing the roots of health disparities that occur in childhood. The purpose of this commentary is to describe the development and dissemi­nation of a policy brief for policy advocates. The goal of this work is to help achieve the implementation of evidence-based programs, practices, and policies that target and modify risk factors to reduce disparities in child mental health burden. Ethn Dis. 2019;29(Suppl 2): 421-426; doi:10.18865/ed.29.S2.421.

Child strengths and placement stability among racial/ethnic minority youth in the child welfare system

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 561-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Summersett-Ringgold ◽  
Neil Jordan ◽  
Cassandra Kisiel ◽  
Rachel M. Sax ◽  
Gary McClelland
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Placement Stability ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Racial Ethnic

scholarly journals Response to Comment on Redondo et al. Racial/Ethnic Minority Youth With Recent-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Have Poor Prognostic Factors. Diabetes Care 2018;41:1017–1024

Diabetes Care ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. e125-e126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Jose Redondo ◽  
Ingrid Libman ◽  
Peiyao Cheng ◽  
Craig Kollman ◽  
Mustafa Tosur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Recent Onset ◽  
Onset Type ◽  
Racial Ethnic

scholarly journals Improving awareness and help seeking for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in ethnic minority youth

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gazal Jones ◽  
Amita Jassi ◽  
Kike Thomas-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

Abstract Background: Inequalities in access, and use of, mental health services by ethnic minorities have been consistently reported for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Mental health promotion may improve knowledge and help seeking. The present study trialled two methods of mental health promotion interventions for ethnic minority youth with OCD.Methods: Community organisations within an ethnically diverse area of London UK, were contacted; information stalls and teaching events on OCD were delivered as interventions. Participants completed questionnaires before and after the information stalls and teaching events. The questionnaires assessed knowledge of OCD, knowledge of identifying OCD in ethnic minorities and perceived help seeking. Participant questionnaire data collected through information stalls (N = 240) consisted predominantly of youth aged 18 years and under (51.2%) and of Black (39.0%) ethnicity. Participant questionnaire data collected at teaching events (N = 350) consisted predominantly of school staff (51.1%) where student ethnicity representation within the schools was 29.9% White, 34% Black, 13.5% South East Asian or Asian and 16.6% Mixed.Results: There were significant increases in knowledge of OCD, perceived help seeking or knowing how to seek help ratings pre to post information stalls and teaching events. Participants also rated their knowledge of identifying OCD in ethnic minority youth as higher after teaching events.Conclusions: Information stalls and teaching events may be useful in mental health promotion interventions in ethnic minority youth with OCD. Further research is needed to determine whether increase in knowledge and perceived help seeking led to increased referrals to mental health services.

scholarly journals The Friendships of Racial-Ethnic Minority Youth in Context

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
leoandra onnie rogers ◽  
niobe way ◽  
erika y. niwa
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Youth Population ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Racial Ethnic

An extensive theoretical and empirical literature suggests that friendships are an important, if not essential, micro-context of adolescent development – shaping youth identity, school and civic engagement, and psychological and physical wellbeing. Friendships are also themselves embedded within, and shaped by, the larger macro-context of culture (Bronfenbrenner, 1979), including racial-ethnic stereotypes (García-Coll et al., 1996; Spencer, 1995). Yet, the study of friendship rarely examines the influence of the macro-context or includes racial-ethnic minority youth despite the fact that such youth represent half of the American youth population. In this chapter, we review research on the friendships of racial-ethnic minority youth and focus specifically on how the macro-context of social-identity based stereotypes shapes the micro-context of friendships.

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