Psychology Assignment: Mental Health Issues

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Psychology Assignment: Mental Health Issues

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PSYCHOLOGY2IntroductionThe following article analyses six sources in the light of mental illness and objectifies thevarious grounds of discrimination faced by people suffering from mental health issues.DiscussionWilson, L. C., Ballman, A. D., &Buczek, T. J. (2016). News Content About Mass Shootings and Attitudes Toward Mental Illness.Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,93(3), 644-658.The authors highlighted the effect of media messages about mass shootings on members' states of mind toward individuals with psychological maladjustment. This article quotes about the different views of students and their attitudes towards the discriminated group by a random experiment. The major drawback of the article lies in the absence of expert information regarding mental health. The article majorly highlights the news regarding the mass shootings and lacks relevant information for further researches in the field of psychology.Gee, G. C., Ryan, A., Laflamme, D. J., & Holt, J. (2006). Self-reported discrimination and mental health status among African descendants, Mexican Americans, and other Latinos inthe New Hampshire REACH 2010 Initiative: the added dimension of immigration.American Journal of Public Health,96(10), 1821-1828.This article pointed that self-reported discrimination or race based unfair treatment is related to one’s poor mental health status. The article highlights topics such as stress, trauma, internal oppression, barriers in health care and various other social and economic disadvantages as the causes for mental illness. According to the article, all the minority groups including portion of immigrants of the US experiences racial discrimination. The article mainly quotes the relation between the poor health status and ethnic discrimination by a secondary analysis of a community intervention accumulating findings of decreasing mental health status of immigrants related to experience with racial discrimination and their access to quality health care.

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PSYCHOLOGY3McLaughlin, K. A., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., & Keyes, K. M. (2010). Responses to discrimination and psychiatric disorders among Black, Hispanic, female, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.American journal of public health,100(8), 1477-1484.According to the authors, the role of discrimination as a determinant of health has suddenly become a highlighted issue of research. The hurting effects of isolation on passionate health, particularly, are continuously apparent. Encounters of partition, paying little respect to whether in perspective of race/ethnicity, sexual presentation, or sex, have been associated with ascends in mental agony and signs of psychopathology. This article examined connection between observed partition in light of ethnicity, sex; responses to isolation experiences; and issues related to mental health. Dark respondents revealed the most abnormal amounts of separation, trailed by LGB, Hispanic, and female respondents. This article hence quotes relevancy to the concept that Psychiatric disorders are more common among people revealing discriminatory experiences associated with mental dismalness.Johns, M. M., Zimmerman, M., Harper, G. W., &Bauermeister, J. A. (2017). Resilient minds and bodies: Size discrimination, body image, and mental health among sexual minority women.Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity,4(1), 34.In this article, the author analyzes the connection between estimate segregation and the emotional wellness of sexual minority ladies, and discovers prove that self-perception might be an imperative mental resource accessible to sexual minority ladies who experience measure separation. The aftereffects of this investigation bolster a connection between body size, segregation, and depressive manifestations as present among sexual minority ladies. The proposal got from this analysis is that general wellbeing interventionists basically analyze the messages they show around body size and wellbeing, so as not to undermine the psychological wellness of sexual minority ladies.

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