Fix Rebecca L, Thurston Idia B, Johnson Renee M, Andrisse Stanley
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 29;14:1061637. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1061637. eCollection 2023.
Racism is a critical social problem, and we present a framework to guide professionals in engaging in anti-racist practices. Professionals on the frontlines in psychology and related fields such as social work and public health have a responsibility to engage in anti-racist practices. Part of the professional role must be to advocate for justice through increased proximity to the issues and engagement in anti-oppressive practices. The current discourse introduces a framework through which people working in psychology and other related professions can promote anti-racism work, highlighting the legal system for illustrative purposes. While some professionals in psychology may not have direct experience with the legal system, many of the individuals served by psychologists do (e.g., clients/patients, students, community members). Our framework is represented by the acronym STYLE (Self-examination, Talk about racism, Yield time to anti-racism work, Learn about structural racism, Evaluate policies and practices). The goal of STYLE is to expand anti-racism science and practice within psychology and related fields. We describe new roles for professionals in dismantling health inequities and offer specific pathways to develop critical partnerships toward this aim. STYLE explicitly encourages active, intentional involvement of affected community members in the development and evaluation of approaches to health services. To achieve equity and to promote individual and organizational growth in anti-racism and ultimately anti-oppression work, professionals must focus on changing their STYLE.
种族主义是一个严峻的社会问题,我们提出了一个框架,以指导专业人员开展反种族主义实践。心理学以及社会工作和公共卫生等相关领域的一线专业人员有责任参与反种族主义实践。专业角色的一部分必须是通过更深入地了解问题并参与反压迫实践来倡导正义。当前的论述引入了一个框架,从事心理学及其他相关专业工作的人员可以通过该框架促进反种族主义工作,并以法律制度为例进行说明。虽然心理学领域的一些专业人员可能没有直接接触法律制度的经验,但心理学家所服务的许多人有(例如,客户/患者、学生、社区成员)。我们的框架由首字母缩略词STYLE(自我审视、谈论种族主义、为反种族主义工作留出时间、了解结构性种族主义、评估政策和实践)来表示。STYLE的目标是在心理学及相关领域扩展反种族主义科学和实践。我们描述了专业人员在消除健康不平等方面的新角色,并提供了为实现这一目标建立关键伙伴关系的具体途径。STYLE明确鼓励受影响的社区成员积极、有意识地参与健康服务方法的制定和评估。为了实现公平,并促进反种族主义乃至最终反压迫工作中的个人和组织成长,专业人员必须专注于改变他们的“风格”。