Healio (5/6, Young) reports, “A literature review revealed that clinicians more often assigned psychotic and childhood disorder diagnoses to Black vs. white patients, according to a poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.” Investigators “found that clinicians more often assigned psychotic and childhood disorder diagnoses to Black patients vs. white patients, and that white patients were more likely diagnosed with adjustment disorder or ADHD.” The “researchers wrote that ‘unconscious bias and underlying societal structures’ may lead to Black patients receiving more severe diagnoses than their white counterparts.”
Related Links:
— “More research needed on racial bias in diagnosing oppositional defiant disorder,”Kate Young, Healio, May 6, 2024