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Reframing the narrative: Black maternal mental health and culturally meaningful support for wellness

Amittia Parker1

  • 1School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Infant Mental Health Journal
|January 20, 2021
PubMed

Black mothers with young children have encountered pernicious, multidetermined, racial disparities in the United States for centuries. However, disorders, risks, and stressors among Black mothers with young children are presented in the extant literature with little attention to their strengths, supports, or culturally appropriate ways to intervene and this furthers racism and White supremacy. Further, incomplete and negative narratives about Black mothers are perpetuated. Therefore, this article uses the Afrocentric perspective to better understand the state of Black maternal mental health and supports for mental health. Culturally centered recommendations are presented to move the field of infant mental health toward racial justice-oriented practice, policy, and research.

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African centered or AfrocentricArbeit mit SäuglingenBlack mothersDisparitäten im Bereich der psychischen GesundheitKindern und FamilienSchwarze Mütterafrikanisch zentriert oder afrozentrischcentrado en lo africano o afro-céntricochildren and familiesdisparidades en el campo de salud mentalmadres negrasmaternal & infant mental healthmaternal mental healthmental health disparitiesniños y familiaspsychische Gesundheit von Mütternsalud mental maternatrabajo con infanteswork with infantsالأمهات السود، الصحة النفسية للأمهات، العمل مع الرضع والأطفال والأسر، التفاوتات في الصحة النفسية، المنظور الأفريقيアフリカ中心主義または黒人文化至上主義与婴儿、儿童和家庭一起工作乳幼児や子ども・家族に関わる产妇心理健康以非洲为中心或非洲中心主义的心理健康差异母親の精神保健精神保健の不当性黑人母亲黒人の母親

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