Effect of Racism on Mental Health of First Nations Peoples and Interventions

This essay discusses the effect of racism on the mental health of First Nations peoples and identifies appropriate interventions. It identifies the psychological framework to explain the cause of racism and the negative well-being results for the populations generally affected by the racial discrimination.

Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Clearly identifies a relevant consequence of racism..........................................................................3
Psychological framework to explain the cause of racism...................................................................3
Identify appropriate interventions......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The concept of racism within Australia generally involves the Indigenous Australians
that can continue to be a subjected towards the racist higher administration policies as well as
community attitudes. In this, the racists attitudes within community to the Aboriginal people
have been confirmed as a continuing both the surveys of the Indigenous Australians as well
as the self-disclosure or the racist attitudes by the non-Indigenous Australians. The concept of
discrimination generally illustrates the different ranges of the behaviours as well as the
practices which results in an unfair and avoidable disparities in power, the resources as well
as the opportunities among groups within the community and can serve to empower the
systems of privilege and oppression. In the report, there is a discussion about the effects of
racism over the mental health of the Indigenous people. In addition to this, there is also a
discussion about the possible interventions towards the racism on the mental health of the
Indigenous people (Pierce et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
Clearly identifies a relevant consequence of racism.
The term Racism can be a widely defined as a type of the behaviours, the practices,
prejudices and beliefs which can underlie systemic as well as avoidable disparities within the
social power and the prospects among the groups within the community based on the
ethnicity, race, religions and culture. The concept race usually refers to a cultural, instead of
biological, structure of the identity based on the phenotypical appearance, communal ancestry
and a cultural heritage. Racism against the indigenous public is consistently reported across
nation and the racism has been acknowledged as a key factor of the well-being discrimination
which is challenged by the indigenous people. the racism can occur at the three basic
theoretical levels, that can overlap within practices such as internalised racism that is the
integration of beliefs in the worldview of a person who can experiences the racism that
outcomes in an inadequate circulation of the control among ethnic, racial, religions, beliefs,
and cultural. In this, interpersonal racism such as the racist interactions among people. In
addition to this, Institutional or a systemic racism such as the practices, formal policies, the
processes and a condition which can serve to enhance the power differentials among the
ethnic, racial, religious or cultural groups as well (Beagan, 2018).
The discrimination of racism is generally the expression of the racism via the
effective actions that are taken at an individual or an institutional level which can lead to
disparities among various ethnic, racial, religious and a cultural group. These such definitions

of both the racial discrimination and racism generally acknowledged the overlapping as well
as tangled spheres of the ethnic, racial, religious as well as the cultural identity both within
the social theory and in the lived experiences of a person and a group who are experienced
both the racial discrimination and a racism as well. In this, an exposure towards the racial
discrimination is broadly understood as a social determinant of the well-being and
significantly a contributing factor towards the well-being disparities among the ethnic and a
racial group. The discussion can widely report that the negative well-being results for the
populations generally affected by the racial discrimination. In this, the physical well-being
results can involve the enhanced pervasiveness of the diabetes as well as a cardiovascular
illness impacts and an elevation within the behaviours which would be expected to have a
negative or bad impacts over well-being. For example, the exposure of smoking cigarette,
abuse of alcohol as well as other drugs. In context with mental health, its effects of racial
discrimination, generally studies that have been noted that the specific targets are at enhanced
risk of developing a varieties of mental well-being issues like depression and anxiety (Mental
health impacts of racial discrimination in Australian culturally and linguistically diverse
communities, 2015). It is identified that a dose response affects that has been noted, with
person who generally reports an elevated levels than those who can experience the
discrimination less often. In addition to this, these such impacts over the well-being results
are being understood to occur via a number of various ways. In this, an experiencing the
racial discrimination can outcome in individuals having limited access towards efficient
resources needed for the well-being like an adequate housing, service provision, as well as
education. In this, the negative emotions as well as the stress can generally outcomes from
the exclusion can have detrimental psychological as well as the physiological effects or a lead
target of the discrimination to pursue the negative well-being behaviours like alcohol or a
consumption of drugs as a coping measure. At the very extreme ends discrimination, the
racial motivation can assault can causes both the emotional and a physical injury. In this,
experiencing an anxiety within the expectation of discrimination among the specific settings
due to past occurrences can cause the social separation of person and a community, that can
afterward pay towards mental distress (Gherardi, Flinn and Jaure, 2020).
Psychological framework to explain the cause of racism.
The racism is a malicious, prevalent and a determined social issue, so it is no surprise
that it has been a central as well as a defining topic within social psychology from the past
1930s. it is as a complex social problem, the multiple perspectives which have been advanced
to understand as well as the theories racism, can ranging from the accounts which can locate

the causes within the psychology of the individual to those which can stress over the
structural and a political determinants of a intergroup hostility. In this, the concepts of the
visibility, stigmatization as well as the discrimination are specifically elevated tangled. In
this, stigma term is being conceptualised as a trait which is diminished in a particular social
context as well as being emphasized the concept of race as a visibly recognizable features
which generally held particular social implications. In this, a race as a signifier of a
stigmatised condition that has been explored via the lens of a legal frameworks, the social
psychology as well as the well-being (Trent et. al., 2019).
Identify appropriate interventions.
The outcomes generally support the increasing as well as can link the experiencing
racial discrimination towards the negative well-being results as well as can highlights the
requirement for the possible interventions to protect both the physical and mental well-being
of the racial and an ethnic minority community via addressing the racial discrimination as
well. In this, the use of the coping strategies that has been exhibited to modify the mental
well-being effects of an experiencing the racial discrimination, either exacerbating the
negative well-being results or a partially countering them, although these such findings are
somewhat contradictory. In addition to this, an experiencing the racial discrimination within a
workplace in the last one year was generally shown to be powerfully linked with being above
the threshold for increased or a very elevated psychological disorder (Gillum, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is analysed that the pathways among the exposure
towards the racism and a reduced mental well-being result as well as the life chances for the
Indigenous people from both the ethnic and a racial minority background. In addition to this,
while the reduced mental well-being was significantly linked with the volume, instead of the
type of the racists incidents generally experienced, the influence of experiencing the
discrimination in some of the sectors that was expressed to be particularly linked with
elevated or a very enhanced psychological disorder. Although the evidences of the well-being
benefits of an anti-racism intervention generally have not current evolved, study findings
suggest which can prevent the racial discrimination will be more constructive approach
towards protecting the well-being of the racial as well as an ethnic minority community other
than relying on the use of a suitable responses mechanisms after a racist incident has
occurred. In this, a strong understanding of the patterns of the experienced racism as well as
the pathways in which the racism can impacts the well-being is however a vital for the

implementation and a development of a relevant intervention strategies as well as can enable
more effective targeting of the efforts in order to enhance the well-being of affected public. In
particular, the specific pathways which the racism can lead to the reduced well-being results
can depict the required for various levels, the multi-settings as well as a multi-strategy
intervention.

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