The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified racism as a serious threat to
public health. Structural racism is a fundamental cause of inequity within interconnected …

Psychotic disorder diagnoses are common in the United States and internationally.
However, racial disparities in rates of psychotic disorder diagnoses have been reported …

According to the social defeat (SD) hypothesis, published in 2005, long-term exposure to the
experience of SD may lead to sensitization of the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system and …

Health Psychology is essential reading for all students and researchers of health
psychology. Organized into four sections, the 6th edition is structured with a clear emphasis …

OBJECTIVE: The authors synthesize findings of previous studies implicating migration as a
risk factor for the development of schizophrenia and provide a quantitative index of the …

▪ Abstract Rapidly accruing evidence from a diversity of disciplines supports the hypothesis
that psychosocial factors are related to morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular …

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …

Researchers have repeatedly observed that clinicians diagnose Black individuals with
schizophrenia at greater rates than White individuals. We conducted a meta-analytic review …

This book provides culture-centered assessment and intervention strategies for effective
clinical practice with Latina/o individuals and families. Mental health professionals will gain …

Since the early 1980s, epidemiological studies using state-of-the-art methodologies have
documented the unmet mental health needs of Latinos adults in the US and Puerto Rico …