Core--Mental Health

少数民族对精神卫生保健的需求未得到满足的情况尤其严重。然而，尽管明显需要心理健康服务，穷人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性低于富人。此外，非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性低于非西班牙裔白人。未得到满足的心理健康治疗需求仍然相当大，在穷人、族裔和种族少数群体中最为严重。当少数民族人口确实接受心理保健时，他们从心理保健专家那里接受治疗的可能性相对较小。贫困人口和少数群体不成比例地依赖初级保健提供者进行心理健康治疗，以及依赖朋友、家人或神职人员等非正式护理来源。心理健康研究核心（MHRC）的总体目标是促进针对低收入少数群体的心理健康干预措施的制定和研究评估。MHRC将通过三个具体目标来实现这一总体目标：(1)在服务评估方面受过培训的精神卫生研究人员与提供社会和卫生服务的社区机构之间发展更强有力的合作；(2)促进以社区为基础的干预措施研究，以改善低收入成年人、少数民族成年人和儿童的心理健康可及性；(3)确定并实施机制，将精神卫生研究扩展到与减少获得精神卫生保健方面的民族和种族差异相关的领域。在

Unmet need for mental health care is particularly great in minority populations. Yet despite evident need for mental health services, poor people are less likely to seek mental health treatment than wealthier individuals. Moreover, African-Americans and Hispanics are less likely to seek mental health treatment than non-Hispanic whites. Unmet need for mental health treatment remains considerable and is highest among poor, ethnic and racial minority populations. When minority population do receive mental health care, they are comparatively less likely to receive it from mental health specialists. Poor and minority populations rely disproportionately on primary care providers for mental health treatment and on informal sources of care such as friends, family or clergy. The overall aim of the Mental Health Research Core (MHRC) is to facilitate the development and research evaluation of mental health interventions on low-income minority populations. The MHRC will purse this overall aim through three specific objectives: (1) develop stronger collaborations between mental health researchers trained in service evaluation and community agencies that provide social and health services; (2) promote community-based research on interventions to improve mental health access for low income adults minority adults and children; and (3) identify and implement mechanism to extend mental health research into areas relevant to reducing ethnic and racial disparities in access to mental health care. In addressing these objectives, the MHRC will carry out four related activities reflecting community priorities: (1) partnerships conferences for community mental health promotion, (2) community mental health workshops, (3) a lecture series on minority mental health, and (4) a secondary data analysis program concentrating on mental health services and epidemiological and clinical intervention research that advances the MHRC mission.