Millet P E, Sullivan B F, Schwebel A I, Myers L J
Dept. of Psychology, Connecticut College, New London, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 1996 Jun;32(3):235-42. doi: 10.1007/BF02249425.
Black Americans, in contrast to White Americans, use the mental health system in different ways. For example, Blacks tend to terminate treatment earlier than Whites. One explanation for the racial differences is that members of the two groups hold different views about mental health problems and their treatment. To test this explanation, subjects read and responded to questions about vignettes describing individuals encountering personal difficulties that ranged from adjustment challenges to severe psychiatric illness. Black American respondents rated spiritual factors as more important in the etiology and treatment of the difficulties than did Whites. The implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed.
与美国白人相比，美国黑人使用心理健康系统的方式有所不同。例如，黑人往往比白人更早终止治疗。对这种种族差异的一种解释是，这两个群体的成员对心理健康问题及其治疗持有不同的观点。为了验证这一解释，研究对象阅读并回答了关于一些短文的问题，这些短文描述了个人遇到的各种困难，从适应挑战到严重的精神疾病。美国黑人受访者认为精神因素在这些困难的病因和治疗中比白人更为重要。本文讨论了这些发现对理论和实践的启示。
