Comparison of Black and White participants with severe mental illness in response to cognitive remediation as an augmentation of vocational rehabilitation

DeTore, Nicole R.; Balogun-Mwangi, Oyenike; Mueser, Kim T.; McGurk, Susan R.

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2021.09.001

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“…The importance of expanding research in this way is stressed by Remedios and Snyder (2015) who argue that attention to the intersectional experiences of prejudice and discrimination is a move toward more inclusion and acknowledgement of diversity within social groups. One particularly important example is the emergence of research that focuses on evidenced-based interventions that show particular promise for improving the work outcomes for Black adults with SMI (e.g., DeTore et al, 2021).…”

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“We don’t get a chance to prove who we really are”: A qualitative inquiry of workplace prejudice and discrimination among Black adults with serious mental illness.

Balogun-Mwangi¹,

DeTore²,

Russinova³

2023

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

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Objective: Studies focused on prejudice and discrimination have traditionally explored the impact of one kind of prejudicial experience (e.g., race, gender, criminal history) within a particular context and thus, there is weak base of understanding about the experiences of individuals who may contend with concurrent prejudicial and/or discriminatory experiences across multiple characteristics. In this study, our aim was to better understand the prejudicial and/or discriminatory work experiences of Black adults with serious mental illness (SMI). Specifically, we highlight instances where individuals endorse the salience of multiple sources of prejudice and discrimination during a given workplace incident. Method: Using a semistructured interview guide and a grounded theory approach, we interviewed 24 Black adults with SMI recruited from two clubhouses in the Boston metropolitan area. To validate findings, we also conducted follow-up focus groups with participants (n = 9) at each recruitment site. Results: We identified 19 personal attributes/characteristics contributing to the prejudicial/discriminatory experiences of Black adults with SMI in the context of work. We also found that respondents would organize these prejudicial/discriminatory experiences in clusters whereby two or more characteristics were viewed as the reasons for prejudice and discrimination during a given workplace incident. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: Black adults with SMI contend with a range of prejudicial and discriminatory experiences, often experienced simultaneously, highlighting the importance of an intersectional framework in research designs and/or clinical interventions addressing the needs of this population. Impact and ImplicationsThis qualitative inquiry reports on experiences of workplace prejudice and discrimination among Black adults with SMI. Giving credence to the intersectional discriminatory experiences that ethnic minorities may face is a necessary next step to more adequately inform research designs and more efficacious clinical interventions.

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“We don’t get a chance to prove who we really are”: A qualitative inquiry of workplace prejudice and discrimination among Black adults with serious mental illness.

Balogun-Mwangi¹,

DeTore²,

Russinova³

2023

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

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“…Black clients may benefit from treatments that target disorganized symptoms, such as cognitive remediation (Eack et al, 2009; Revell et al, 2015; Van Duin et al, 2019; Wykes et al, 2011), and interventions that target positive symptoms, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis (Hutton & Taylor, 2014; Turner et al, 2014). Black clients may also benefit from vocational-rehabilitation programs, such as Thinking Skills for Work (McGurk & Mueser, 2021), which was recently shown to yield similar gains for Black individuals compared with White individuals (Campbell et al, 2011; DeTore et al, 2023). In addition, clinicians should evaluate whether their Black clients are socially isolated and the reasons for isolation.…”

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Do Symptom Severity, Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Explain Differences in Daily Functioning in Non-Latinx Black, Non-Latinx White, and Latinx People With Serious Mental Illnesses?

Nagendra

Liu

Mueser

et al. 2023

Clinical Psychological Science

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In this study, we examined ethno-racial differences in daily functioning in 66 non-Latinx White participants, 83 non-Latinx Black participants, and 60 Latinx participants ( N = 209) diagnosed with serious mental illnesses, and the extent to which individual socioeconomic status (SES), neighborhood SES, and symptom severity accounted for observed differences. Participants completed ecological momentary assessments of what they were doing, who they were with, and where they were three times daily for 30 days. Black participants more frequently reported being alone or engaged in passive leisure (e.g., watching TV) than White participants and Latinx participants, less frequently reported vocational activity than Latinx participants, and less frequently reported home-based active leisure than White participants. Although some findings were accounted for by neighborhood SES, individual SES, or symptoms, there is also a need to explore sociocultural and racism-related explanatory factors. Clinical implications (e.g., providing vocational services to Black clients) and future research directions are discussed.

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Clinical and psychosocial outcomes of Black Americans in the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode Early Treatment Program (RAISE-ETP) study

Nagendra

Weiss

Merritt

et al. 2022

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Comparison of Black and White participants with severe mental illness in response to cognitive remediation as an augmentation of vocational rehabilitation

Cited by 4 publications

References 57 publications

“We don’t get a chance to prove who we really are”: A qualitative inquiry of workplace prejudice and discrimination among Black adults with serious mental illness.

“We don’t get a chance to prove who we really are”: A qualitative inquiry of workplace prejudice and discrimination among Black adults with serious mental illness.

Do Symptom Severity, Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Explain Differences in Daily Functioning in Non-Latinx Black, Non-Latinx White, and Latinx People With Serious Mental Illnesses?

Clinical and psychosocial outcomes of Black Americans in the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode Early Treatment Program (RAISE-ETP) study

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