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Multiethnic studies have yielded significant data demonstrating that weathering—accumulated health risk due to social, economic and environmental stressors—is a manifestation of social stratification that systemically influences disparities in health and mortality between dominant and minority communities. [14]
Karen Bullock is an American medical sociologist, clinical social worker, and an academic research scholar. She is the Ahearn Endowed Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work. [1] Bullock is most known for her work on health equity and health disparities.
Muñoz has authored more than 125 peer-reviewed journal articles [4] and has been cited over 20,000 times. His research works span smoking cessation, depression prevention, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and evidence-based internet intervention, with a particular focus on mental health of Latinos, and low-income minorities. [18]
Further research on the mental health disparities among sex and gender is needed in order to gain a deeper knowledge of the predictors of mental health and the possible differences in treatments. Adult women are at a high risk of experiencing mental health disorders during their pregnancy, however, most physicians do not address this until the ...
The importance of obtaining information from multiple perspectives has been demonstrated by meta-analytic findings of substantial disparities between ratings of children’s problems by mothers, fathers, teachers, mental health workers, observers, and children themselves (Achenbach, McConaughy, & Howell, 1987).
She has also led a US National Institutes of Health training grant intended to advance prevention research, with a focus on HIV risk reduction. Ickovics is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, [1] and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Strickland-Daniel Mentoring Award from the American Psychological ...
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Plakun is the editor of New Perspectives on Narcissism (American Psychiatric Press, 1990) [20] and Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority: The Austen Riggs Reader (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011) [21] and author of nearly 100 articles and book chapters on the diagnosis, treatment, longitudinal course and outcome of patients with borderline ...