The Impact of Race and Racism on Mental Health Outcomes

• By: Andrea Harnett-Robinson, ACSW, LCSW Kimberley Richards, EdD Milta Vega-Cardona, MS Ben Kohl, PhD, LCSW-C
• January 1st, 2011
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Achieving positive mental health outcomes in the context of race and racism begins with awareness and action. Clinicians are motivated to relieve negative symptoms and support wellbeing; however, their work rarely promotes anti-racist values such as Learning from History; Sharing Culture;...

Through a Glass Darkly: Poverty and Mental Health in The Bronx

• By: Julie List, LCSW JBFCS
• October 1st, 2010
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Each day I take a journey to the northern tip of our city, to the Northeast Bronx, where I am the director of an outpatient mental health clinic. I am a visitor from another country, Manhattan, and I inhabit this world and see it through the eyes of a white, middle-class outsider. As the 5 train...