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Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury Recognizing and Assessing Race-Based Traumatic Stress
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In this article, the authors discuss the psychological and emotional effects of racism on people of Color and discuss a model to understand, recognize, and assess race-based traumatic stress to aid counseling and psychological assessment, research and training.Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychological and emotional effects of racism on people of Color. Psychological models and research on racism, discrimination, stress, and trauma will be integrated to promote a model to be used to understand, recognize, and assess race-based traumatic stress to aid counseling and psychological assessment, research, and training.read more
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Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research
TL;DR: Advancing the understanding of the relationship between perceived discrimination and health will require more attention to situating discrimination within the context of other health-relevant aspects of racism, measuring it comprehensively and accurately, assessing its stressful dimensions, and identifying the mechanisms that link discrimination to health.
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
TL;DR: Shattered Assumptions: Toward a New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman as mentioned in this paper, 256 pp. ISBN 0-02-916015-4.Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
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Race, socioeconomic status, and health: Complexities, ongoing challenges, and research opportunities
TL;DR: It is shown that differences in socioeconomic status across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities in health and research is needed that will enhance understanding of the complex ways in which race, SES, and immigrant status combine to affect health.
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Self-reported experiences of discrimination and health: scientific advances, ongoing controversies, and emerging issues.
TL;DR: Controversy remain, particularly around the best approach to measuring experiences of discrimination, the significance of racial/ethnic discrimination versus overall mistreatment, the need to account for "intersectionalities," and the importance of comprehensive assessments, along with emerging areas of emphasis.
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Perceived racism and mental health among Black American adults: A meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: A positive association between perceived racism and psychological distress is found and a moderation effect for psychological outcomes is found, with anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric symptoms having a significantly stronger association than quality of life indicators.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping
Richard S. Lazarus,Susan Folkman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
TL;DR: In this article, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment, examining how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looking at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities.
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A Threat in the Air How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance
TL;DR: Research shows that this threat dramatically depresses the standardized test performance of women and African Americans who are in the academic vanguard of their groups, that it causes disidentification with school, and that practices that reduce this threat can reduce these negative effects.