Mushmouth
04-06-2018, 06:54 AM
A 2014 study done by professors at the University of Akron School of Counseling determined that Black people are disproportionately diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; in fact, they are five times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than white people.
The study concluded that factors such as the misapplication of diagnostic criteria, tendencies to readily assign the socially “deviant” behaviors associated with psychotic disorders to Black Americans, and clinicians’ misinterpretation of psychopathology in Black people may explain the disparity. A 2012 study published in the American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatric Services journal concluded that clinicians’ perceptions of African American patients’ honesty are significant mediators of the racial disparities in schizophrenia diagnoses.
https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/05/ohio-woman-demands-better-care-black-patients-involuntary-hospitalization/
The study concluded that factors such as the misapplication of diagnostic criteria, tendencies to readily assign the socially “deviant” behaviors associated with psychotic disorders to Black Americans, and clinicians’ misinterpretation of psychopathology in Black people may explain the disparity. A 2012 study published in the American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatric Services journal concluded that clinicians’ perceptions of African American patients’ honesty are significant mediators of the racial disparities in schizophrenia diagnoses.
https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/05/ohio-woman-demands-better-care-black-patients-involuntary-hospitalization/