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Clinical psychologist. Interested in trauma, staff well-being, race and intersectionality, working with vulnerable children.
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Background: Within mental health services, Black people tend to have poorer experiences of mental... more Background: Within mental health services, Black people tend to have poorer experiences of mental health services, in terms of access, treatment and outcomes. Institutional racism has been cited as one of the main causes for the differences. Over the years, several national race equality policies, initiatives and pieces of legislation have been introduced across the public sector to try and address these issues. However, since the introduction of the Equality Act (2010), it seems that race equality has effectively been taken off the national agenda, with mental health services having to develop or draw on their own resources to adequately tackle this issue. Aims: Little is known about what Mental Health Trusts (MHTs) are doing to tackle these issues. Even less is known about any specific attempts to improve the outcomes of those who are most marginalised within and by mental health services, that is, Black people. Therefore, the current study was developed to find out what mental he...
Background: Within mental health services, Black people tend to have poorer experiences of mental... more Background: Within mental health services, Black people tend to have poorer experiences of mental health services, in terms of access, treatment and outcomes. Institutional racism has been cited as one of the main causes for the differences. Over the years, several national race equality policies, initiatives and pieces of legislation have been introduced across the public sector to try and address these issues. However, since the introduction of the Equality Act (2010), it seems that race equality has effectively been taken off the national agenda, with mental health services having to develop or draw on their own resources to adequately tackle this issue. Aims: Little is known about what Mental Health Trusts (MHTs) are doing to tackle these issues. Even less is known about any specific attempts to improve the outcomes of those who are most marginalised within and by mental health services, that is, Black people. Therefore, the current study was developed to find out what mental he...