Jacqui Dyer: Talking about race and mental health is everyone’s business | Hélène Mulholland As a government adviser on its new review of the Mental Health Act, Jacqui Dyer aims to address the ‘dirty secret’ that black people are too often detained in inpatient facilities.
For Jacqui Dyer, trying to talk about the issue of race and inequality in mental health services is sometimes like “pulling teeth”. Yet the over-representation of black people in inpatient mental health services is part of the country’s “dirty secret” that needs to be addressed once and for all.
“Wherever there is exclusion or detention in this society, that’s where you find over-representation of black people,” says Dyer, who argues that the notion of the black person as “big, black and dangerous” still prevails within institutional service settings.
Even when black adults do manage to access talking therapies, we don’t have the same outcomes Continue reading... The Guardian
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