TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiences of African-American men with serious mental illness and their kinship networks within the mental health care system
AU - Hack, Samantha M.
AU - Larrison, Christopher R.
AU - Bennett, Melanie E.
AU - Lucksted, Alicia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Informed by the Network-Episode Model, 26 African-American men with serious mental illness and 26 members of their kinship networks completed in-depth qualitative interviews about their experiences with the mental health care system to better understand racial differences in mental health care. The aim was to better understand communication among kin networks, clients, and treatment agencies with a focus on the opportunities for kinship involvement. Although kin were involved in clients’ everyday lives, they were largely excluded from the community mental health agency (CMHA) and treatment decisions. In addition to incorporating family resources, enhanced efforts by CMHAs to collaborate with kin may increase knowledge about mental illness and mental health care in the African-American community, removing an impediment to service access and client retention.
AB - Informed by the Network-Episode Model, 26 African-American men with serious mental illness and 26 members of their kinship networks completed in-depth qualitative interviews about their experiences with the mental health care system to better understand racial differences in mental health care. The aim was to better understand communication among kin networks, clients, and treatment agencies with a focus on the opportunities for kinship involvement. Although kin were involved in clients’ everyday lives, they were largely excluded from the community mental health agency (CMHA) and treatment decisions. In addition to incorporating family resources, enhanced efforts by CMHAs to collaborate with kin may increase knowledge about mental illness and mental health care in the African-American community, removing an impediment to service access and client retention.
KW - African-American population
KW - community practice
KW - family services
KW - mental health or community mental health
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U2 - 10.1080/15313204.2019.1570888
DO - 10.1080/15313204.2019.1570888
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061260642
SN - 1531-3204
VL - 28
SP - 98
EP - 114
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
IS - 1
ER -