Deck 9: African-Americans, Racism, and Mental Health

Question 1

African-Americans have higher rates of psychiatric-hospital admissions than whites and other ethnic groups.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Invisible forms of racial bias that operate at an unconscious level of well-intentioned whites who believe they are free of racial bias is

A)color blindness
B)draptomania
C)microaggression
D)service fragmentation
E)blatant forms of discrimination

Answer 2

microaggression

Question 3

The differential access and distribution of services and opportunities to the benefit of dominant racial groups are examples of

A)individual racism
B)institutional racism
C)internalized racism
D)white supremacy
E)microaggressions

Answer 3

internalized racism

Question 4

Which of the following is not a part of the World Health Organization's definition of mental health?

A)an individual realizes his or her own abilities
B)an ability to cope with normal stresses of life
C)productive work
D)ability to contribute to community
E)a ""happy-go-lucky"" disposition

Question 5

The term ""draptomania"" refers to

A)an unfounded mental illness attributed to runaway slaves
B)adolescent races
C)evidence based practice with African Americans
D)paranoia
E)psychological well being

Question 6

Racism has been consciously and systematically constructed in the United States.

Question 7

Racial-identity development is a linear process, moving from one stage to the next.

Question 8

When whites assume innate superiority based on their skin color, they are demonstrating individual racism.

Question 9

The acceptance among individuals of racially stigmatized groups of negative perceptions about their own abilities is a definition of institutional racism.

Question 10

A white person who is moving towards a non-racist white identity is more likely in which stage of the Helms white racial identity model?

A)contact stage
B)disintegration stage
C)reintegration stage
D)pseudo-independence stage
E)pre-encounter stage