Afro-Caribbean Canadian youth mental health: paving the way forward from the margin to the centre.
| dc.contributor.author | Edwards, Fiona | |
| dc.contributor.author | Torres, Rose Ann | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nyaga, Dionisio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-10T18:53:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-10T18:53:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Black youth are disadvantaged in Canadian society due to racial inequality. Within dominant institutions, Black youth are often oppressed, marginalized, excluded, controlled, and poorly understood. Research on race and mental health is largely focused on the adult population. Youth mental health, in general, is an understudied area, and critical investigations of Black youth’s mental health are even more limited. In addition, the mental health experiences of Afro-Caribbean Canadian youth (ACCY) are not well established within the Canadian context. The existing data that accounts for their lived experiences is very limited. Moreover, their personal narratives and experiences are too often marginalized in the limited research that does exist. Without data that accurately represents their experiences, it will be challenging, if not impossible, to institute any necessary changes at the structural level. In an effort to address this gap, my doctoral research explores the lived mental health experiences of ACCY between the ages of 16–18 who were born in Canada and reside in the urban areas of Southern Ontario. Using the data from this study, this chapter provides recommendations for practices and policies in the mental health system that are designed to prioritize and address the mental health and well-being of the Afro-Caribbean Canadian and Black youth in general. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://macewan.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MACEWAN_INST/1mogj0i/cdi_springer_books_10_1007_978_3_031_58373_5_3 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Edwards, F. (2024). Afro-Caribbean Canadian youth mental health: Paving the way forward from the margin to the centre. In D. Nyaga, & R. A. Torres (Eds.), Reimagining mental health and addiction under the Covid-19 pandemic (pp. 11–15, Vol. 2). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58373-5_3 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58373-5_3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3806 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | Black youth | |
| dc.subject | racism | |
| dc.subject | mental health | |
| dc.title | Afro-Caribbean Canadian youth mental health: paving the way forward from the margin to the centre. | en |
| dc.type | Book Chapter |