Abstract
As racism, in particular racial microaggressions, becomes
increasingly recognized as a source of mental health stress for
African Americans, it is important to understand how to identify,
assess and measure the impact racial microaggressions have on
African American’s
mental health. Racial microaggression is a fairly new type of
discrimination towards many minority groups such as African
Americans and Asian Americans. Similar to the effects of racism,
racial microaggression has a significant impact on
one’s mental and
physical health. In order to lessen the impact on
one’s mental and
physical health, it is important to research some of the barriers
for mental health treatment. The purpose of this systematic review
is to explore what the literature says are challenges mental health
professionals face in assessing and measuring daily racial
microaggression experiences in African American clients. The
methodology used in this systematic review involved the development
of a search string related to racial microaggression that would
yield a wide range of articles to address the research questions
developed within this systematic review. After the literature
results, the systematic process included applying my inclusion and
exclusion terms to the literature and then I extracted the data
from articles into a database which narrowed down my literature to
the final articles. The final 13 articles used for this systematic
review were analyzed by grouping articles together with similar
themes that relates to the research questions and offered
recommendations. The literature identified some of the challenges
which included: 1) researchers and mental health professionals
heavily rely on self-reporting for data collection; 2) racial
microaggression is a fairly new term and research is limited on the
subject and 3) there is a lack of awareness about racial
microaggressions among mental health professionals. These
challenges provide a unique opportunity to research possible
recommendations to combat the aforementioned challenges. The
recommendations includes exploring additional research methods,
such as observing behaviors and journals over a long period of
time, and building awareness of racial microaggression among mental
health professionals. Combating these challenges will improve the
relationship between African Americans and the mental health
community and as a result will improve the mental and physical
health of African Americans.
 
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Chapter 1 1 Introduction 2 Problem Statement 2
Purpose Statement 2 Research Questions 2 Significant Statement 3
Definition of Terms 3 Summary 3 Chapter 2 4 Overview 4 Definitions
4 Mental Health Professionals 7 Racial Microaggressions and Health
7 Racial Microaggressions, Physical Health and Mental Health 7
Assessing and Measuring Racial Microaggression 8 Chapter 3 13
Introduction 13 Article Selection and Search Strategy 13
Information Sources 14 Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion/Exclusion
Criteria 14 Data Extraction Process 15 Data Analysis 17 Chapter 4
29 Introduction 18 Table 1 18 Table 2 25 Table 3 27 Table 4 29
Chapter 5 31 Introduction 31 Summary of Key Study Findings 31
Limitations 33 Recommendations 34 Conclusion 26 References 37
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