Racism can Affect your Mental Health from as Early as Childhood | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Racism can Affect your Mental Health from as Early as Childhood

Posted on September 19, 2018

Discusses a new study published in the journal American Psychologist that sheds some new light onto just how early those effects can begin. The study, which researchers say is the first meta-analysis to look into racism's effects on adolescents (as opposed to adults), examined 214 peer-reviewed articles examining over 91,000 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 20.

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