Clinician’s commentary to accompany “Unmet need for mental health services utilization among under-resourced Black and Latinx adults”.

Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 41(2), Jun 2023, 276-277; doi:10.1037/fsh0000813Comments on the article by T. B. Loeb et al. (see record 2023-28006-001), which highlights a need to understand mental health service (MHS) utilization among Black and Latinx individuals given disparate and detrimental outcomes associated with underdiagnosis and untreated mental health disorders. The present author addresses four questions related to the article: (1) How does this article, written by researchers, resonate with your experience as a clinician? (2) What is one thing you might do differently in your practice after reading this article? (3) What factors might facilitate or hinder the uptake/implementation of ideas in this piece? and (4) What is one unanswered question that you would like to see pursued as a follow-up to this article? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Families, Systems, and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research