Decolonizing Mental Health | Overview
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Experts like Shawna Murray-Browne speak to what the current mental health field lacks.
Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice. It’s a colonization that has rarely ever been questioned and the need to dismantle it has never been more urgent. Mental health practitioners serving racialized groups come together to shed light on the racism that undercuts their progressive practices.
Funding for Mysteries of Mental Illness is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Johnson & Johnson, the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, and Draper, and through the support of PBS...
Decolonizing Mental Health | Overview
Preview: Special | 2m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice. It’s a colonization that has rarely ever been questioned and the need to dismantle it has never been more urgent. Mental health practitioners serving racialized groups come together to shed light on the racism that undercuts their progressive practices.
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DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH calls for a redress of ways we define and treat mental health. (36s)
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