Anxiety-Related Disorders in the Context of Racism

MacIntyre, Marie-Paule; Zare, Manzar; Williams, Monnica T.

doi:10.1007/s11920-022-01408-2

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“…A large study of Black Caribbean and African American adults found associations with racial discrimination and contamination, harm, washing, and repeating OCS (Williams et al, 2021). As MacIntyre et al (2023) state, much of the existing literature is on Black Americans, so more work is needed for other ethnic and racial groups of people. Furthermore, research designed to understand causal mechanisms and risk/protective factors in this relationship between racism and OCD is an additional important next step (Willis and Neblett, 2018).…”

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“…Other research and reviews have echoed that there is theoretical and research support for acceptance and mindfulness-based treatments for Black people and people of colour (POC), but overall there is a need for more studies with these treatments and populations (Dawson et al, 2022;Dela Cruz et al, 2022;Martinez et al, 2022b;Trefethen, 2019). MacIntyre et al (2023) reiterate the general need for new interventions to be validated to help people cope with anxiety disorders related to racism. Thus there is clear literature support for psychological flexibility-informed treatments, with additional research needed exploring their benefits to POC.…”

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“…As MacIntyre et al . (2023) state, much of the existing literature is on Black Americans, so more work is needed for other ethnic and racial groups of people. Furthermore, research designed to understand causal mechanisms and risk/protective factors in this relationship between racism and OCD is an additional important next step (Willis and Neblett, 2018).…”

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“…MacIntyre et al . (2023) reiterate the general need for new interventions to be validated to help people cope with anxiety disorders related to racism. Thus there is clear literature support for psychological flexibility-informed treatments, with additional research needed exploring their benefits to POC.…”

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“…It is clear that racism has associated mental health difficulties, and it has specific associations with OCS as well that need to be further studied. There is a need for a more thorough understanding of links between anxiety-related diagnoses and diagnoses that have anxiety as a symptom like OCD, and their links with racism (MacIntyre et al ., 2023). They summarize in their review that experiencing racial discrimination is associated with higher OCD symptom severity, with racial identity beliefs sometimes acting as vulnerability factors and sometimes acting as protective factors (MacIntyre et al, 2023).…”

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A pilot study of experiencing racial microaggressions, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and the role of psychological flexibility

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Lloyd-Richardson,

Satterfield

et al. 2023

Behav. Cogn. Psychother.

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Background: Experiencing racial microaggressions has clear effects on physical and psychological health, including obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms (OCS). More research is needed to examine this link. Psychological flexibility is an important process to examine in this work. Aims: This study aimed to examine if, while controlling for depression and anxiety, experiences of microaggressions and psychological flexibility helped explain OCD symptoms within a university-affiliated sample (undergraduate, graduate and law students). This was a pilot exploration of the relationships across themes. Method: Initial baseline data from a longitudinal study of psychological flexibility, OCD symptoms, depression, anxiety and experience of microaggressions was utilized. Correlations and regressions were utilized to examine which OCD symptom dimensions were associated with experiencing racial microaggressions in addition to anxiety and depression, and the added role of psychological flexibility was examined. Results: OCD symptoms, experiences of microaggressions and psychological flexibility were correlated. Experiences of racial microaggressions explained responsibility for harm and contamination OCD symptoms above and beyond psychological distress. Exploratory results support the relevance of psychological flexibility. Conclusion: Results support other work that experiences of racial microaggressions help explain OCS and they add some support for psychological flexibility as a relevant risk or protective factor for mental health in marginalized populations. These topics should be studied longitudinally with continued consideration of all OCD themes, larger sample sizes, intersecting identities, clinical samples, and continued exploration of psychological flexibility and mindfulness and values-based treatments.

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Satterfield

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Lions at the gate: How weaponization of policy prevents people of colour from becoming professional psychologists in Canada.

Faber¹,

Williams²,

Metzger³

et al. 2023

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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The purpose of this article is to shed light on how weaponized policy supports a system designed to exclude racialized individuals from becoming professional psychologists, contributing to the undersupply of mental health care providers, which in turn contributes to a mental health crisis in Canada. We first describe the origins of the current shortage and lack of diverse representation in professional psychology and conclude with a list of recommendations to dismantle historic and unjust policies. As explicit racism became more stigmatized over the decades, policy tools evolved to become more abstract and give the veneer of fairness while maintaining the original exclusionary outcome. Weaponized policies are part of a much-used but little-examined structural toolkit that serves to disenfranchise disempowered groups. We illuminate the history and adoption of these policies with examples, show how they were explicitly created to prevent people of colour from gaining power through education, and how they protect existing racist systems. The absence of historical perspective in training gives aversive policies plausible deniability, making structural change difficult. These policies have metastasized and become entrenched, persisting covertly in a multitude of policies and procedures that continue to strangle educational opportunities for people of colour and deprive Canada of diverse registered professional mental health providers and leaders.

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Day-to-day associations of intersectional minority stressors with sleep health in sexual and gender minority people of color.

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Ensari,

Jackman

et al. 2024

Health Psychology

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Anxiety-Related Disorders in the Context of Racism

Cited by 12 publications

References 67 publications

A pilot study of experiencing racial microaggressions, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and the role of psychological flexibility

A pilot study of experiencing racial microaggressions, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and the role of psychological flexibility

Lions at the gate: How weaponization of policy prevents people of colour from becoming professional psychologists in Canada.

Day-to-day associations of intersectional minority stressors with sleep health in sexual and gender minority people of color.

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