Community Beliefs
These core beliefs are essential to this racial/ethnics group: Familismo, Respeto, Personlismo, and Confianza
What is Latino/Hispanic population?
People with Mental Health Conditions are violent
What is Myth?
(Most people with mental health conditions are no more likely to be violent than anyone else. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, only 3%–5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. )
This organization was founded in 1968 to address the legitimate mental health needs of Black people and challenge racist psychological practices
What is The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi)?
The music group Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez is from
What is TLC?
Name at least two dishes across the diaspora that are some sort of meat wrapped in dough
Ex: What is beef patty and meat pie?
This racial/ethnic group is the least likely group in the U.S. to access mental health care from therapists and doctors, often seeking help amongst loved ones rather than within the medical system
What is Asian/ Pacific Islanders?
The most common mental illness is Anxiety
What is Fact?
This court case ended legal segregation in public schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This city is known as the birthplace of Hip Hop
What is The Bronx, New York?
An Eddie Murphy movie that delves (comedically) into the Immigrant experience
What is Coming to America?
Indigenous individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for many mental health conditions are much more likely to seek help from these than from Western medical sourcesIndigenous individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for many mental health conditions are much more likely to seek help from these than from Western medical sources
What is Traditional/Spiritual Healers?
Nearly one in every seven people around the world are living with a mental health disorder
What is Fact? (Data according to the World Health Organization)
This organization was founded in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman.
What is Black Lives Matter?
The Billie Holiday song considered to be one of the first protest songs of the Civil Rights Movement
What is Strange Fruit?
An American Boycott helped lead to the end of what system in South Africa?
What is Apartheid?
This gender, especially in Black and African American communities, generally holds a strong stigma against mental health challenges and seeking help, believing that mild depression or anxiety would be considered “crazy” in their social circles, inappropriate to discuss even among family, and sign of personal weakness.
What is Males?
Prevention doesn’t work. It is impossible to prevent mental illnesses.
What is Myth?
(According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness,
Prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders focuses on addressing known risk factors such as exposure to trauma that can affect the chances that children, youth, and young adults will develop mental health problems. Promoting the social-emotional well-being of children and youth leads to:Higher overall productivity, Better educational outcomes, Lower crime rates, Stronger economies, Lower health care costs, Improved quality of life, Increased lifespan, and Improved family life.)
This pioneering Black female psychologist and educator conducted the famous "doll tests" to study the psychological effects of segregation on children.
Who is Mamie Phipps Clark?
The first music video depicting an all-Black cast as Egyptian royalty
What is Remember the Time by Michael Jackson?
This Caribbean nation’s revolution inspired global abolition movements after defeating France, Spain, and Britain
What is Haiti?
This racial/ethnic group exhibits the highest levels of distrust in the United States healthcare system
What is Black/African Americans?
People with Mental health issues have lower IQ
What is Myth?
(There is no connection between IQ and mental illness.)
This infamous, 40-year study (1932–1972) is a key example of unethical research conducted on Black men in Alabama
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
Finish the Lyrics:
L - is for the way you look at me
O - is for the only one I see
V - is very, very, extraordinary
What is E - is even more than anyone that you adore can?
The religious and cultural movement in Jamaica that blends African spirituality, Old Testament symbolism, and reverence for Haile Selassie
What is Rastafarianism?