Requests for outpatient mental health services: A comparison of whites and blacks

Wood, William; Sherrets, Steven D.

doi:10.1016/0010-440x(84)90065-8

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“…For example, more African-Americans (33%) than whites (13%) preferred seeing social workers as therapists, and more African-Americans (26%) than whites (9%) thought that medication alone was most useful. A previous study by Wood and Sherretts (1984) reported findings similar to ours. Nevertheless, on most issues there were no significant differences between races (e.g., there were no differences in the type of professional staff person seen or in reported satisfaction with the current therapist).…”

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Individual Psychotherapy and Persons With Serious Mental Illness: The Clients' Perspective

Coursey

Keller²,

Farrell³

1995

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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The perspectives of persons with serious mental illness about their experiences with individual psychotherapy were obtained from a stratified random sample of 12 psychosocial rehabilitation centers from all centers in Maryland. Response and completion rates, test-retest reliability, and generalization data were positive. Eight areas were explored: (1) Utilization and duration: of the 212 respondents, 90 percent had been in therapy for a median of 12 months (mean = 3 years); only a third expected to end their therapy within 5 years. (2) Therapeutic effectiveness: most of the respondents (72%) reported that individual psychotherapy had brought positive changes to their lives, 14 percent reported negative changes, and 14 percent reported that therapy had had no effect. (3) Preferred interventions and parameters: sixteen percent felt that medication was most useful, 25 percent felt that talking therapy was most useful, and 60 percent endorsed a combination of the two. With respect to diagnosis and psychotherapy, 84 percent of respondents with schizophrenia preferred brief, less frequent sessions of reality-oriented therapy over longer, more frequent sessions of insight therapy. Respondents with bipolar and major depression were equally split between the two. (4) Therapeutic issues: human concerns were more frequently rated as important and were rated higher in importance than illness-specific symptoms. (5) Clients' view of illness: Only 8 percent thought their illness was a brain disease, a third thought it was a psychological problem, and a quarter thought it was a combination of both; a third answered, open quote I don't know closed quote. Almost half did not know what their therapists thought. (6) Therapeutic relationship: Friendliness was the quality most desired in a therapist. (7) Confidentiality: Most felt that therapists generally kept the clients' confidences. (8) Empowerment: Persons who felt empowered in therapy spent less time in hospitals, expected a shorter stay in therapy, and knew more about their problems. Suggestions are made about a more client-responsive model of individual psychotherapy for persons with serious mental illness.

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Individual Psychotherapy and Persons With Serious Mental Illness: The Clients' Perspective

Coursey

Keller²,

Farrell³

1995

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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“…However, unlike other people of color (e.g., Hispanics and Asian Americans), evidence suggests that African Americans tend to overutilize mental health services (Leong et al, 1995). In addition, African Americans have been found to use mental health services in a different manner than do European Americans (Wood & Sherrets, 1984). For example, Webster and Fretz (1978) found that African Americans would seek services at a university counseling center for educational or vocational problems but were less likely to use university counseling centers to address personal or emotional problems.…”

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Attrition After Intake at a University Counseling Center: Relationship Among Client Race, Problem Type, and Time on a Waiting List

Levy

Thompson-Leonardelli

Smith

et al. 2005

Journal of College Counseling

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The present study examined the relationship between attrition after intake and the length of time that clients spent on a waiting list by client race and problem type. Participants were 1,461 clients who completed an initial intake evaluation at a large, Mid-Atlantic counseling center over a 6-year period. Fullfactorial hierarchical logistic regression analyses revealed that African American clients were less likely to return for counseling than were European American clients, regardless of the problem type.

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Racial differences among shelter residents: A comparison of anglo, black, and hispanic battered

Gondolf

Fisher²,

McFerron

1988

J Fam Viol

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Requests for outpatient mental health services: A comparison of whites and blacks

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Individual Psychotherapy and Persons With Serious Mental Illness: The Clients' Perspective

Individual Psychotherapy and Persons With Serious Mental Illness: The Clients' Perspective

Attrition After Intake at a University Counseling Center: Relationship Among Client Race, Problem Type, and Time on a Waiting List

Racial differences among shelter residents: A comparison of anglo, black, and hispanic battered

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