{"id":15588,"date":"2013-09-20T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2013-09-20T01:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T05:27:34","slug":"racism-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety-in-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/09\/racism-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety-in-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism linked to depression and anxiety in youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the The University of Melbourne media release:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sad-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15435\" alt=\"sad child\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sad-child.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>An international review led by the University of Melbourne has found <strong>children and young people experience poor mental health, depression and anxiety following experiences of racism<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>The first of its kind, the review showed 461 cases of links between racism and child and youth health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Dr Naomi Priest at the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Community Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne said <strong>the review demonstrated racism as an important factor influencing the health and wellbeing of children and youth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe review showed there are strong and consistent relationships between racial discrimination and a range of detrimental health outcomes such as low self-esteem, reduced resilience, increased behaviour problems and lower levels of wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most common types of racism the studies investigated were interpersonal experiences of racism<\/strong> \u2013 between people rather than institutional or systemic racism.<\/p>\n<p>Associations between racism and behaviour problems, pregnancy and birth outcomes were common. The studies reviewed found <strong>children whose mother experienced racism during pregnancy were more likely to have poorer birth outcomes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Most studies reviewed were conducted in the US with younger people aged 12-18.<\/p>\n<p>The three most common ethnic\/racial groups represented in the studies were African American, Latino\/a and Asian, including East Asian, South Asian and other Asian.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Priest said <strong>the review identified an important issue that needed to be addressed in society, schools and communities to improve child and youth health<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that children who experience poor health and wellbeing are<strong> less likely to engage in education, employment and other activities that support them to lead healthy and productive lives<\/strong> and to participate meaningfully in the community,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The review was conducted in collaboration with Deakin University and University College London.<\/p>\n<p>The research will published in the October edition of the internationally top ranking social science journal <em>Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the The University of Melbourne media release: An international review led by the University of Melbourne has found children and young people experience poor mental health, depression and anxiety&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/09\/racism-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety-in-youth\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[345,5,10,338],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15594,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15588\/revisions\/15594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}