Racial Barriers in Medical Interventions for Depression in African Americans Toyette’ M. Hazzard EH 1020, English Composition II Professor Catherine Croston June 15, 2012 Toyette’ M. Hazzard Professor Catherine Croston EH 1020, English Composition II June 15, 2012 Racial Barriers in Medical Interventions for Depression in African Americans Introduction Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States. Mayo Clinic (n.d.) defines depression as a medical illness that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Depression is an illness that can affect one’s mood, body and thoughts. It’s a chronic illness that usually requires long-term treatment, like diabetes or high blood pressure. Depression can lead to many different types of emotional and physical issues.
HIV and African American women It is imperative to determine what is perpetuating the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American women and what unique challenges they face? Do the available prevention techniques consider the everyday realities that befall African American women? Some of the risk factors include childhood sexual abuse, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse, relationship conflicts, such as fear of intimate partner violence (IPV) external stressors, such as poverty and lack of access to HIV prevention services and more importantly their belief system, social norms, their attitude toward sexual activity and safe sexual practices. The lack of attention in these areas of prevention strategies poses a major
She does display symptoms of depression feelings of sadness and rejection. With the recent events one that has been of her | |mother, and the other the rejection from her boyfriend has brought past and current emotions to the surface. | 2. Where does Ellen fit with Shneidman’s taxonomy of people who intentionally end their lives? |Here are Shneidman’s commonalities: I.
In examining the reasons why women commit these crimes, Professor Johnson speaks of her recently published book, Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison. In telling their stories, the women often shared similar experiences of traumas throughout their lives, such
Studies and statistics would prove that drugs and alcohol will lead to a life of destruction. Most humans have what’s called addictive behaviors which are usually inherited traits, more importantly; when that trait is fueled by the wrong behaviors it can be detrimental. It is very easy to fall into that lifestyle especially if one has been brought up in a traumatic environment that causes much pain and suffering. This was the case in “Lady sings the blues” a story about the life of Billie Holiday. I will discuss further how I believe she was traumatized as a young girl and how the life that she lived led her to use and abuse drugs until it completely ruined her life.
Counseling African American Woman i Reflection Paper on Counseling African American Woman on Substance Abuse Tricia Raber Diversity in CD Counseling, HUS 217M Patricia Bax November 7, 2011 Counseling African American Woman ii Abstract This paper will discuss, as an Addiciton Treatment Counselor, the skill set needed to council a African American woman in a addiction treatment center setting. Included will be a brief description of my personal understanding of the cultural issues that African American women face. Counseling African American Woman 1 African American woman have suffered many hardships throughout history. They have had to deal with racism, sexism, classism and colorization, but to name a few. It is
However, the least mentioned victim is the police officer. Policing is one of the most stressful occupations in the criminal justice field that is why it has one of the highest rates of substance abuse, divorce, and suicide. According to a suicide study made by Badge of Life, past years statistics include, in 2008/141, 2009/143 and 2012 /126 police officers committed suicide (Badge of Life, 2013), which comparing to previous years means a significant decrease in suicide rates. Killing out of anger, indictment, feeling alone, sexual accusations, loss of job, conviction of crime and false or true complaints are some of the reasons why police officers commit suicide (Paris, 2010). The stress that officers live in every day, could not be explain in word.
(Web MD). Women are most likely to try to attempt suicide, but men are most likely to die from a suicide attempt. Suicide rates have increased in people over 65 years old. Explanations of suicide can be a combination psychological issues and sociological factors. (Trend and Issue).
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a problem that most people do not address in the proper way. Many devastating things happen as a result of this, whether the pain you experience is from the emotional toll that this can cause or the physical abuse that may come along. One aspect that appeared interesting was the effects that IPV may have within the risk of obtaining HIV. Looking through the “Journal of Family Violence” Viol (2009) 24:221-229, I discovered the article “Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Risk-Propensity in Black/ African American Women”, which discussed these concepts. The article defines IPV as any act that is used to control, terrorize, or dominate another, within a relationship (Josephs and Abel).
It also affects the African American children as well. In today’s society African Americans are often stereotyped of using drugs due to any reason. In the article, poverty is considered to be one cause of substance abuse. Studies have proved that there are reasons that may cause someone to act in substance abuse. It has been estimated that approximately 35% of African-American families live at or near the poverty level.