July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month — a time to spotlight the unique mental health challenges faced by Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color, and the barriers that keep so many from getting care.
People of color face mental health challenges at high rates — and get treatment far less often. Why?
In this Shrink Short, Dr. James McKnight breaks down one major piece of the puzzle: who’s actually in the room providing care. From the makeup of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams to the “leaky pipeline” that pushes providers of color out of the field over time, this episode digs into the reasons representation gaps persist in psychiatry — and why closing them isn’t just symbolic, but clinically essential.
Some of the numbers may surprise you.
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