research concluded that with more education, higher income, better employment and greater social support, depression amongst African Americans would be less likely be prevalent within the community.
Oppression’s Impact
This issue of oppression among African Americans has been a very controversial topic since the era of slavery. Whether most agree on its negative impact throughout generations or not, it is very relevant to the contributing factors of mental health and depression within the black community. Hanna, et al., (2000), conducted research exploring examples of the misuse of power and further define it in the context of oppression from a counseling perspective. In this study, a transcultural exploratory model was used to identify between …show more content…
Depression realism is the hypothesis that states that people with depression have a better perception of reality and they make better inferences than non-depressed individuals. Most people that have depression sometimes suffer from cognitive distortions such as selective abstraction, dichotomous thinking and catastrophic thinking. In this research over depression realism, there is a belief that the oppressed (African Americans), are more likely to perceive things less accurately than their oppressor or non-depressed individual. However, that is not the case. Beck’s (1976; Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979) cognitive therapy model, declares that persons with depression would be likely to perceive events with an unrealistic, distorted, or pessimistic attitude, to the point of losing rather than gaining objectivity. Ellis’s (1971,1989) rational-emotive model agrees with Beck and his associates in insisting that persons with depression irrationally misinterpret events. However, the findings of Allov and Abramson (1979) and Alloy, Albright, Abramson, & Dykman (1990) challeneged Beck’s thesis and found that persons with depression may be more sab but are often more accurate in their perceptions than persons who re not depressed. The methods of systematically excluding an entire race caused significant mental health disparities among blacks, causing significant increase in depression over …show more content…
However, there is so much more to be discovered regarding the mental health of African Americans. While there are a few research that are published, it is not merely enough coverage revolving around the changing of ethnic diversity and the hidden mental health disorders most have today. Not only does this and other mental illnesses within the community affect the future and well-being of blacks, it also gives insight to why we need more multicultural research concerning mental illnesses of
Oppression’s Impact
This issue of oppression among African Americans has been a very controversial topic since the era of slavery. Whether most agree on its negative impact throughout generations or not, it is very relevant to the contributing factors of mental health and depression within the black community. Hanna, et al., (2000), conducted research exploring examples of the misuse of power and further define it in the context of oppression from a counseling perspective. In this study, a transcultural exploratory model was used to identify between …show more content…
Depression realism is the hypothesis that states that people with depression have a better perception of reality and they make better inferences than non-depressed individuals. Most people that have depression sometimes suffer from cognitive distortions such as selective abstraction, dichotomous thinking and catastrophic thinking. In this research over depression realism, there is a belief that the oppressed (African Americans), are more likely to perceive things less accurately than their oppressor or non-depressed individual. However, that is not the case. Beck’s (1976; Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979) cognitive therapy model, declares that persons with depression would be likely to perceive events with an unrealistic, distorted, or pessimistic attitude, to the point of losing rather than gaining objectivity. Ellis’s (1971,1989) rational-emotive model agrees with Beck and his associates in insisting that persons with depression irrationally misinterpret events. However, the findings of Allov and Abramson (1979) and Alloy, Albright, Abramson, & Dykman (1990) challeneged Beck’s thesis and found that persons with depression may be more sab but are often more accurate in their perceptions than persons who re not depressed. The methods of systematically excluding an entire race caused significant mental health disparities among blacks, causing significant increase in depression over …show more content…
However, there is so much more to be discovered regarding the mental health of African Americans. While there are a few research that are published, it is not merely enough coverage revolving around the changing of ethnic diversity and the hidden mental health disorders most have today. Not only does this and other mental illnesses within the community affect the future and well-being of blacks, it also gives insight to why we need more multicultural research concerning mental illnesses of