Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles (Mensah); Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Psychiatry McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Ogbu-Nwobodo); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis (Shim). Drs. Mensah, Ogbu-Nwobodo, and Shim are editors of this column.
Psychiatr Serv. 2021 Sep 1;72(9):1091-1094. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000755. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
With a growing understanding of how racism negatively affects the mental health of patients, mental health professionals are as anxious to act as they are uncertain about the best path forward. This uncertainty persists even though thoughtful, actionable antiracist recommendations in psychiatry were made 50 years ago. Mental health professionals can take several antiracist actions, including acknowledging individual and structural racism through an examination of racist policies, to achieve mental health equity. The mental health field must take these actions collectively so that history does not continue to repeat itself.
随着人们越来越了解种族主义如何对患者的心理健康产生负面影响，心理健康专业人员不仅急于采取行动，而且对最佳前进道路也感到不确定。即使 50 年前精神病学就提出了深思熟虑且可行的反种族主义建议，这种不确定性仍然存在。心理健康专业人员可以采取几种反种族主义行动，包括通过审查种族主义政策来承认个人和结构性种族主义，以实现心理健康公平。心理健康领域必须集体采取这些行动，这样历史才不会重演。
