Exam Preview for 1846: Racism and Mental Health February 19, 2024

Racism and Mental Health

Please note: exam questions are subject to change.

1. If race is defined as a classification system representing a social meaning it is referred to as a: biological construct reductionistic concept social construction genetic label
2. In an ethnocentric perspective… one’s own culture is placed as the standard, to which other cultures are compared practices in one culture and equal to practices in another culture cultural norms are considered morally or socially relative diverse cultures are given a higher social value
3. Which condition was found to be a factor in how race affects mental health in a meta-analysis on racism and health? predisposition genetic information diversification social exclusion
4. In one study, white individuals as compared to non-whites had how many times the odds of receiving treatment for mental health co-morbidities? roughly the same 2 2.5 4.5
5. Which level of racism could include residential segregation, immigration policies, and incarceration rates? individual/interpersonal institutional/structural clinical cultural
6. What is the relationship between immigration policy and mental health? more restrictive policy can support mental health there is not a statistically significant relationship anti-immigration policies can negatively impact mental health this has not been studied
7. Poverty, higher stress exposure, and barriers to community resources are examples of: neighborhood disadvantage community interventions epigenetic impact social constructions
8. Negative stereotypes portrayed in mass media are examples of which type of racism? interpersonal cultural technological intergenerational
9. One policy recommendation to specifically combat racism in relation to mental health is to add what topic to cultural competency trainings? predisposition value-based care anti-racism professional development
10. What is one approach that clinicians can use to address how racism may impact a client’s mental health? allowing the client to navigate those issues on their own acknowledging and naming racism with clients avoiding these topics if the clinician is uncomfortable only taking clients of the clinician’s background