Mental Health Racism and Sexism

by Charles V. Willie

Book Overview

The essays in this volume discuss racism and sexism as they affect mental health. In particular, they focus on training, diagnosis, treatment, and research, emphasizing the power relationships between individuals and groups that cause unequal access to mental health care. They offer perspectives on issues and their distinct effects on mental health: interracial adoptions, teenage motherhood, gender bias in mental health diagnosis and therapy, prisons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822955490
• ISBN13: 9780822955498
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"