Minority Suicides Undercounted

Minority Suicides Undercounted

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 144 , Segment 1

Minority Suicides Undercounted, Childhood Emotional Neglect

Episode: Minority Suicides Undercounted, Childhood Emotional Neglect

  • Jun 16, 2018 1:00 pm
  • 49:14 mins

Kimya N. Dennis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal studies. She does multidisciplinary community outreach, teaching, research, and consulting to reach underserved populations and to address demographic and cultural variance in a range of social issues. How we approach mental health, we need to evaluate how we treat people from different ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations and gender identities.  Not all treatments should be the same.  Kimya N. Dennis talks about the problem of suicides by racial and ethnic minority groups and shares some ideas on how to address the issue.