African-Americans

Mental Health and African-Americans

Mental Health and African-Americans

Introduction

African American has been identified as the group that uses the services of mental health services contradictorily. African American is the community of sample that was consistently less likely than the white American to seeking for the mental health services (Obasi & Leong, 2009). There are number of variables that have been recommended to explain the incompatible use of mental health services renowned surrounded by African American. Issue related with economic might be the relevant with this regard. African Americans also faces the faces the problem of lack towards health insurances and interested in mental health services to use the public programs. Rates of psychological disorders in the African American community are considered to be slightly higher rate in overall population of America. There are number of individuals that are able to contain the good health momentum. However there are many in desperate need to the mental health treatment. Those people who are having the cultural diverse group are disproportionally higher burden of disability that results mental illness in the people of African American, but on the same time there are lack of cultural competent received the lesser or poor quality (Griffith, 2009). In this paper we discuss the importance mental health for the African-American population and white Americans. In later part of this paper we will explore the student depression effect on the racial identity and coping behavior.

Discussion

Racial discrimination is a omnipresent experience for many African Americans. In a significant national survey, Aten and his colleagues set up that more than 60% of African Americans reported experiencing discrimination at least once in their lifetime and primarily made race-based attributions for the mistreatment (Aten et al., 2011). Research also suggests that racial discrimination is common among African American college students. Around 59% of African American students reported having been verbally insulted at least once or twice on their college campus. In addition to being frequent and pervasive, racial discrimination is also costly to African Americans' psychological well-being, physical health, and educational outcomes.

According to the nationwide survey of American life, African American is slightest likely to seek the mental wellbeing care services when they were in adult age. There are number of factors that have implicated in the current state associated to the people of African descents. According to (Pieterse et.al, 2012)They are usually cited barrier included poverty, insufficient insurance, poverty and cultural distrust occurs in the mental health profession in institution discrimination and racism associated with mental illness.

Mental Health Behavior

There are some more social scientist barriers that relates to social science and it argued for investigating barriers treated to be more sophisticated in the nature. Philological diagram, differential attitude, expression among the people of African descents is expected to the African American people. This is unusual for the citizens of African to more rely on the traditional hold up network such as advisors, relatives, friend and community organization (Pierre & Mahalik, 2005). Although it is assumed that the traditional support network ...