Black Culture and Mental Health

<p>The history of mental illness for black people in America stretches all the way back 400 years 15 million people and an ocean that holds the stories - Nissen In recent studies Black/African American women and men were not seeking therapy or mental health services due to under representation of licensed Black/African American therapists social workers or mental health professionals (Taylor & Kuo 2018). In 2013 Dr. Jeff R. Gardere an African American psychologist reported that Black/African Americans would seek mental health services if there were more racial- ethnic clinicians (Smith 2015). He expressed that it could help eliminate the mistrust that Black/African Americans may feel when seeking therapy services from those not of their race.</p>