18 Flashcards
minority stress theory model:
minorities face unique and hostile stressors because of their minority identity and impacts health
distal stressors:
external discrimination
proximal:
internalized from combination of chronic minority discrimination and victimization lead to negative feelings about oneself
implicit bias:
when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge
components of prejudice:
cognitive, emotional, behavioral
predictor of psychological symptoms in marginalized populations:
microaggressions. puts pics’ at higher risks for poorer mental health SUD’s
priming:
exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus without conscious guidance or intention
microaggressions are a form of:
priming the person and society members
microaggressions:
comment of action that subtly expresses a prejudice attitude toward a member of a marginalized group
order of races by illicit drug use/SUD’s
- american Indian or Alaska native
- multiracial people
- black
- white
- hispanic
- Asian
queer people have higher rates of:
mood and anxiety disorders, health problems, higher rates of health diagnoses, substance use disorders
in what year was queerness seen as not a mental disorder?
DSM 2 1968
in what year was paraphilia not seen as a mental disorder?
1974
what year was homosexuality classified as a mental disorder?
DSM 1 1952. listed as sociopathic personality disturbance
adolescent LGBT have:
significantly higher rates of illicit drug use and alcohol use, increased risk of attempting suicide
