Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression

1 What is the current problem? An examination of the concepts and definitions of prejudice, privilege, stigma and oppression in the behavioral health professions.- 2 Prejudice, Power and Injustice: Problems in Academia.- 3 What is Modern Prejudice?.- 4 Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression Regarding African Americans.- 5 Predjudice Regarding Latinx-Americans.- 6 The Invisibility of Asian Americans in the United States: Impact on Mental and Physical Health.- 7 Prejudice, Stigma, and Oppression on the Behavioral Health of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.- 8 Disability--An integral Part of Being Human.- 9 Psychology's Prejudice Against The Military.- 10 Intersecting and Multiple Identities in Behavioral Health.- 11 Identifying and Remediating Personal Prejudice: What Does the Evidence Say?.- 12 Micro-aggressions, Stereotypes, and Social Stigmatization in the Lived Experiences of Socially Marginalized Patient/Clients: A Social Justice Perspective.- 13 Bias in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 and Psychopathology.- 15 Discrimination, prejudice, and oppression and the development of psychopathology.- 16 DSM Revisions and the 'Western Conundrum'.- 17 Preventing Prejudice and Promoting Intergroup Relations.- 18 Prejudice and the Ethical Code.- 19 Prejudice in the Health Care System: Remediation Strategies.- 20 Microaggressions, Marginalization and Stress: Issues of Identity, Place and Home for Minority Faculty in Academia.- 21 Microaggressions in Human Service Organizations.- 22 All You Have Gotten Is Tokenism.- 23 Ageism in Behavioral Health Care.- 24 Rural Prejudice-Urban Bias: The Stories and Structures that Oppress Rural Communities.- 25 Sociopolitical Values: The Neglected Factor in Culturally-Competent Psychotherapy.- 26 Calling a Cease Fire:Ending Psychology's Long Conflict with Religion.

Lorraine T. Benuto received her doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2009 and completed an internship at the Veteran's Administration in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While Dr. Benuto's research is broadly focused on ethnic minority behavioral health, much of the work that she does is focused on interpersonal violence, trauma, and Post-Traumatic Stress disorder. She is currently director of the DICE Center; and of three clinical service programs: La Cliníca VIVA, THRIVE, and SIERRA Families. The programs are focused on providing behavioral health services to Spanish-speaking Latinx community members, victims of interpersonal violence, and children who are at risk of abuse (respectively). She has delivered professional presentations at state, national, and international conferences on topics related to cultural competence.  

Melanie Duckworth received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia. Currently she is anassociate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she is director of the Health Risk and Traumatic Injury Research Program. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses that address lifestyle health behaviors that contribute to chronic medical conditions and the role of the behavioral health specialist in improving medical outcomes in patients with multiple medical conditions.

Akihiko (Aki) Masuda is an associate professor of psychology at University of Hawaii at Manoa, with expertise in clinical behavior analysis, cultural consideration in behavioural health, and contextual behavioural science. He completed his doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno and his pre-doctoral internship at the University of Texas Medical Science Center, Houston. His primary areas of interest include acceptance- and mindfulness-based therapies, diversity psychology, and mechanisms of change in behavioral