How People Of Different Racial & Ethnic Groups Experience Mental Illness Stigma & Discrimination
Does mental illness stigma affect people differently based on their racial or ethnic identities? A few studies have attempted to uncover any relationships between different groups of people and stigma but so far the results have been mixed: racial and ethnic minorities with mental illness have been found to experience higher, lower, and the same levels of stigma as white people with mental illness. There could be several reasons for these ambiguous results, e.g. some studies have focused on only …
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