RACE AND MENTAL HEALTH 1: THE LONG ROUTE TO HOSPITAL

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RACE AND MENTAL HEALTH 1: THE LONG ROUTE TO HOSPITAL
refdoc August=1991

JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 015253 , Acc Date = 18-Dec-89
A Whyte
Commun Care, 28 Sep 1989 (782) pp23-25

Questions why disproportionate numbers of black people are
detained in mental hospitals. Looks at the use by the police of
section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, and the compounding
of the distress of social disadvantage with unsympathetic
treatment by agencies which can lead to mental illness.

racism, mental health, racial discrimination, mentally ill,
psychiatry, racial equality

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