Do we need more black psychologists?

[greenvale]

I feel like we do, but that won't really change until the stigma in the community is changed first. Some black people don't value it as a career because to them you can 'fix' your mental health by doing shyt like going to the gym

 

[Elle Driver]

I disagree. Fundamentally, our behavioral and mental issues are the same across the board. Regardless of race.

That white shrink can indeed break down your root causes just as well as any other black shrink who "understands where you come from".

They do not understand the black experience and barriers to mental health care.

It needs to be black psychiatrists too. White ones be over medicating and quick to label black folks violent.

 

[WesCrook]

They do not understand the black experience and barriers to mental health care.

It needs to be black psychiatrists too. White ones be over medicating and quick to label black folks violent.

What evidence to you have to support these claims?

 

[EBK String]

I disagree. Fundamentally, our behavioral and mental issues are the same across the board. Regardless of race.

That white shrink can indeed break down your root causes just as well as any other black shrink who "understands where you come from".

no they cant

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

We actually need reparations, first, so we can PAY those Black psychologists.

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[Seoul Gleou]

I disagree. Fundamentally, our behavioral and mental issues are the same across the board. Regardless of race.

That white shrink can indeed break down your root causes just as well as any other black shrink who "understands where you come from".

What? No, man. It's much, much harder to reach a breakthrough if a patient is black and the shrink is white. It's harder because the experiences they each have are vastly different and that there is an internalized distrust of white people in positions of power, as would be the case in a therapeutic setting at first, in the black community. No, fundamentals are there, sure. But actually getting somewhere can take a shorter time if both people are black, it's just intuitive at that point.

 

[jackson35]

Do we need more black people in the psychology field or is that unimportant in the long run for black folks?

considering that you have babies making babies?

 

[Neuromancer]

explain for what reason in op so i can give a better answer.

That's up to you to decide.

but for sake of whatever

For what, exactly? We talking just to be in the field and create Black guilds and be a force in it? Or to address mental problems in our communities?

If it’s the former, I’m widdit.

If it’s the latter, the numbers will never add up.. We’ve got way more people that need help than we’ll ever have people to treat them. We need to work from the bottom (Change our communities) rather than dealing with the fallout from it.

Both. I'd ask you this. How does one go about Changing something while dealing with people whose mental ailments can prevent change?

 

[Neuromancer]

considering that you have babies making babies?

considering that you have mentally traumatized and unwell people making babies.

 

[Weaver31]

I feel like we do, but that won't really change until the stigma in the community is changed first. Some black people don't value it as a career because to them you can 'fix' your mental health by doing shyt like going to the gym

Exactly....fix urself by going to the gym, manning up, getting some pusse, getting a drink, smoking a blunt, going to church (whigh I recommend but it isn't the same as therapy), etc.

 

[jackson35]

considering that you have mentally traumatized and unwell people making babies.

i don't know how one qualify that, but there are too many young single mothers

 

[Weaver31]

i don't know how one qualify that, but there are too many young single mothers

True and they not old enough or mentally or financially ready to be full time mothers

 

[Miles Davis]

Yes, mental health is an issue in the black community. So many don’t want to acknowledge it and pass it off as other things. Plus we need people like us who can communicate to our own during therapy sessions and the like. If you’re a black man or woman depressed because of how the world views you how can a white person relate?

 

[Commish]

Yes, there should be more Black psychologists and psychiatrists, but there also needs to be more Black people willing to use their services.

Also, the stigma behind using mental health services needs to be eradicated from the Black community as well..

 

[Gold]

Do we need more black people in the psychology field or is that unimportant in the long run for black folks?

As someone who is huge on psychology and psychiatry, we need more and more and more.

I wont see a psychiatrist, therapist, counselor who isn't black, period.
Even if its not about race issues... everything always relates back to race