Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatric Services

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2250587
AutoresRoland Littlewood (Institute for Social Anthropology), Sybil Cro, Sybil Cross (St Bartholomew's Hospital)
Año1980
Volumen2
Número2
Páginas194-201
Fecha de publicación1980-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.ep10487792
PMID10250404
OpenAlexW1967729628
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas7

Black psychiatric out-patients appear to be more likely to receive various physical treatments than do British born patients or white immigrants: major tranquillisers and electroconvulsive therapy. Both black patients and white immigrants are more likely to receive intramuscular medication than the British born and have a pattern of out-patient attendance which involves self-referrals, missed appointments and being seen on booked appointments by the most junior members of the therapeutic team. These findings cannot all be adequately interpreted as the result of demographic differences or differing conceptions of mental illness and readiness to seek treatment. They appear to involve either (a) Differences in psychiatric phenomenology which have not been recognised or (b) Stereotyped attitudes of mental health professionals

Attendance · Ethnic group · Immigration · Mental health · Mental illness · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychiatry · Healthcare Systems and Technology · Medicine · Psychology