ReviewJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2023
Structural Racism, Workforce Diversity, and Mental Health Disparities: A Critical Review.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Development of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Supervisor Self-Assessment Tool (DEI-SST).Clinical practice in pediatric psychology · 2026Article
- Impact of Asian Language-Speaking Mental Health Providers on Asian American Patient Volume in Mental Health Treatment Facilities: Moderating Role of Medicaid Spending.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Factors Influencing Perceived Mental Health Service Needs, Self-reported Utilization, and Barriers to Care Among Health System Faculty and Staff.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2026Article
- Discursive constructions of employee mental health in South African labour legislation and organizational policy: implications for psychosocial safety climate.Frontiers in health services · 2026Review
- The Critical Role of Race-Conscious Framework in Advancing Mental Health Workforce Diversity: A Case Study.Race and social problems · 2026Article
- An innovative DEI approach for emerging HIV investigators on Latino health.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2026Article
- Health of Hispanic/Latino Workers in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Sociocultural Ancillary Study: Privileges and Disadvantages of Occupational Status and Exposure to Hazards.Occupational health science · 2025Article
- Patient Satisfaction Among Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Sample in an Opioid Treatment Program: A Mixed Method Research Study.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intersectionality in healthcare leadership: a scoping review on the career experiences of racially and ethnically minoritised women health professionals.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Why do Stayers Stay? Perceptions of White and Black Long-Term Employees in a Community Mental Health Center.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- Development of a health support competence scale for supervisors of female migrant workers in Japan.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Behavioral Health Service Corps: An Innovative Model for Workforce Development.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Exploring the Widening Trend in Racial and Ethnic Differences in Youth Mental Health Service Use.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Trauma, Mental Health Workforce Shortages, and Health Equity: A Crisis in Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2025Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) People in Canada.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- New local health officials: health departments' newest leaders.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Testing job wellbeing indicators among community behavioral health workers: Community-based participatory research.PloS one · 2025Article
- Associations of depressive symptoms, social engagement and support, and lifestyle behaviors among non-Hispanic black and Hispanic men with chronic conditions in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveRacial workforce diversity has been suggested as a critical pathway to address persistent racial mental health disparities. However, structural racism has been noted to diminish such workforce diversity efforts. The purpose of this critical review is to identify the mechanisms through which structural racism operates in organizations, including mental health organizations, to undermine workforce diversity efforts and reinforce inequities.
methodsUsing the theories of racialized organizations, the current review critically draws on literature underscoring the racial character of organizations as mezzo-level racialized structures that may systematically activate and uphold white privilege in the mental health workplace.
resultsFindings suggest that in the context of institutionalized white dominance, workers of color within mental health organizations may experience race-based cultural exclusion, identity threat, and racialized workplace emotional expression, and be burdened by racialized tasks. The workers of color may also become the means for organizations to attract communities of color due to their diverse characteristics, yet workers' effects to address disparities in mental health are minimized due to potential racialized organizational forces, including the whiteness of organizational leadership and color-blindness. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Structural racism may create resistance to the efforts and effects of a racially diverse workforce within mental health organizations. This review calls for a race-conscious framework that drastically shifts the traditional organizational structure to an inverted hierarchy (i.e., client-centered management) to maximize diversity efforts in the mental health organizational workforce to address racial disparities in mental health.
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