Answer by Tiffany Bitchany
Black people are more likely to be poor.
Male teenagers are more likely to kill people in a school.
Answer by A B
Mental health can only be understood in a social context. For example, if someone is from a culture where spirit possession is commonly accepted, it's not mental illness when they say they are possessed by a spirit. But from many cultures, it would be. This is not strictly 'racial' since people from any particular racial group can be brought up in different cultures, but that's the closest I can get. Similarly, every culture has particular expectations of men and women, and someone who acts as if they belonged to the other gender may (often very unfairly) be regarded as mentally ill. But in some cases, this might be genuinely relevant.
It's also true that the solutions or support or therapy that is offered needs to be appropriate to the race and gender of the client.
I wish I didn't get the feeling that we're being asked to write an assignment for you........
Answer by Hopefully Helpful
Depending on the issues that a client has, he/she may feel more comfortable working with someone of the same gender or racial background.
Each client is unique.
Answer by Dr_Adventure
They are part of the complex fabric that make up who we are and how we interact with larger systems. Race (or better said ethnicity and culture) and gender (or better said gender identity) effect and affect how we see ourselves, how we interact with others, how others see us and how others treat us. In mental health this is materialized in the actual diagnosis given (e.g. more women are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder than men - more African American's are diagnosed in special education - specifically emotional behavioral disorders than other races - etc.). Since both race and gender are socially constructed as are they way we understand many mental health issues, there is direct effect here.
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Hi,I did the following:
Orignal From: in what ways are race and gender issues significant in social work practice in the area of mental health?
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