Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-8-2023
Abstract
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 institutions and the social environments in which we live and develop. This review illustrates how these ethnoracial inequities impact risk for the extended psychosis phenotype. Black and Latinx populations are more likely than White populations to report psychotic experiences in the United States due to social determining factors such as racial discrimination, food insecurity, and police violence. Unless we dismantle these discriminatory structures, the chronic stress and biological consequences of this race-based stress and trauma will impact the next generation’s risk for psychosis directly, and indirectly through Black and Latina pregnant mothers. Multidisciplinary early psychosis interventions show promise in improving prognosis, but coordinated care and other treatments still need to be more accessible and address the racism-specific adversities many Black and Latinx people face in their neighborhoods and social environments.
Comments
This article was original published in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.
Recommended citation: Anglin, D. M. (2023). Racism and social determinants of psychosis. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 19(1), 277–302. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-080921-074730
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