UK Mental Health Policy
Mental healthcare service delivery in the UK has been subjected to a series of significant imperative policy in the last few decades, and number of people suffering from mental illness is on the increase. Recent statistics reveal that one out of four people in the UK has been diagnosed of mental problem. (Mental Health Foundation, 2013, Singleton, Bumpstead, O'Brien et al. Meltzer 2001). Although, mental disorders are widespread in the UK, however, mental disorders are predominant in some group than other group. (McGorry, Nordentoft, & Simonsen, 2005).
BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) group are four times more likely to experience psychosis than white people. (National Mental Health, 2010, Heller, et al. 1996). Evidence reveals that incidence of psychosis is significantly higher within Black-African and African-Caribbean groups than the White British Population living in the UK. (Cooper et al., 2008) . Black Caribbean have a record of 7 times of psychosis than the White British. (Harriss, 2007). The risk factors associated with mental illness include exclusion, stigma, racism discrimination, and social disadvantages. (Cooper et al., 2008) . Racism makes BME group to look different because of the belief than BME group are inferior than the White group. Impacts of racism are exclusion, stigma, discrimination, and social disadvantages, which consequently provokes mental illness. (Allen, 1997).
Objective of this report is to provide a critical analysis on the mental healthcare service delivery within social care practice for the BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) group.
Critical Analysis of mental Health Service Delivery for Black and Ethnic Minority Group
Provision of effective social support for people suffering from mental disorder has become challenging in the UK. A key challenge is that some ethnic groups are not receiving the equal mental health benefits compared to other groups in the UK. (Tummey, Turner, 2008). "People with mental health problems from Black and minority ethnic groups, women, asylum seekers and refugees are especially vulnerable to the consequences of oppression and discrimination." (Ray, et al. 2008, p.3).
Thus, "providing effective social support for people with mental health problems is a key challenge in an environment where the views of people who use services are seen as increasingly significant, where some social groups do not receive services fairly and equably, and where organizational structures are changing." (Ray, et al. 2008 p.1).
Social workers have a significant role to play in providing support to groups and individuals who may have negative experience to mental health service delivery. (Ray, Pugh, Roberts, et al. 2008). Different ethnic groups in the UK have different experiences about mental health problems based on their different cultural and social economic context. Black and minority ethnic group are likely to be more diagnosed of mental health problems than the British white group due to number of factors, which include racism, unemployment, exclusion, poor housing and poverty. (Churchill, 2011). Moreover, the mental health of black minority is likely to deteriorate because of social exclusion that this group of people experience in the UK. (Davidson, 2009). The major argument is that the mainstream of mental health services delivered to the minority group is gradually diminishing in the UK. (Coleman, and Smith, 2007) .Moreover, Black minority ethnic group in the UK is reluctant to be engaged in the mainstreams of health services. (Mental Health Association, 2012).
The 2005 and 2008 census results reveal that Caribbean and Black African communities are three times more likely to be hospitalized than the whole population . (Littlewood, and Lipsedge, 1997) .The same group are 44% more likely to be detained by the police. In 2009, police detention of the Black African, and Black Caribbean are higher than average.
In the UK, 8.94% of mental patients are Black and 4.52% of mental patients are Asian compared with 3.32% of mental health patients in England and Wales. (Office for National Statistics Census 2011).
"The 2000 EMPIRIC survey of mental illness in the community used large samples to examine the prevalence of common mental illness, such as depression and anxiety, in five ethnic minority groups (Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani) relative to a baseline White British group." ( National Mental Health development Unit 2010p.3).
The table below reveals relative prevalence of mental disorder by ethnicity.
Percentage of UK population with common mental disorder
White
Irish
Black Caribbean
Bangladeshi
Indian
Pakistani
Men
11.6
18.4
13.8
12.9
12.1
12.6
Women
19.9
18.6
19.8
12.3
23.8
26.0
Total
15.8
18.5
17.3
12.3
18.1
19.6
Source: National Mental Health development Unit (2010).
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