University of Helsinki: White structures of mental health services can prevent young people from..

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University of Helsinki: White structures of mental health services can prevent young people from getting help

March 18, 2021

As mental health services have been constructed on the terms of whiteness, young people of colour are often left without the help they need. Tuuli Kurki investigates the potential effects of racism on young people’s mental health.

When young people of colour (POC) experience mental distress, this is easily considered to be the result of unsuccessful integration, their immigrant-ness or cultural differences. Racism, mental health and young people of colour (RaMePOC), a research project carried out by Postdoctoral Researcher Tuuli Kurki, challenges this way of thinking by turning the gaze on structural problems faced by young POC in their everyday lives, racism and prejudices in particular. POC stands for people of colour, and in Finland the term non-white is also commonly used in this context. The Academy of Finland awarded a three-year grant to the project in the spring 2020.

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