Barriers to Mental Healthcare
Barriers to Mental Healthcare
Task: Barriers to Mental Healthcare
Consider, based upon your literature review thus far, what theories have been recurrent.
Describe two theory in your own words, and explain its relationship with the gap in the literature you identified.
Literature Review Outline
Task One: Themes and Their Relation to the Identified Gap in Literature
Causes of the Barriers to Mental Healthcare Among West/ Central African Immigrants
Analysis of articles highlighted a significant theme: specific factors contribute to the disparities in mental healthcare that immigrants from West and Central Africa face. They include a lack of adequate resources in the regions occupied by immigrants…
Factors that Make West/ Central African Immigrants Vulnerable to Mental Health Problems
Different articles highlight a significant theme, which is that immigrants are vulnerable to mental health disorders. Their susceptibility to mental challenges is precipitated by specific factors such as the challenges of adapting to the foreign country’s new lifestyle, culture, and way of life,,,
Interventions can Eliminate the Barriers to Mental Healthcare that West and Central African Immigrants Face
An analysis of literature that discusses the barriers that west and central African immigrants face highlights a significant theme that there are interventions that can aid in eliminating the barriers that impede immigrants from the west and central….
Task Two: Literature Review Outline
I. Introduction
a. Identification of the gap in access to healthcare services
b. Statistics that prove that the gap exists (Yearby, 2018)
c. Research question: What are the barriers to mental healthcare access experiences by the west and central African immigrants?
II. Causes of the barriers to mental health problems experienced by the west and central African immigrants
a. Lack of adequate resources, including:
1. Mental healthcare facilities (Martinez et al., 2015)
2. Psychiatric specialists
b. Immigration policies
1. Prevent the immigrants from accessing medical coverage (Gaston et al., 2016)
2. They prevent immigrants from visiting healthcare facilities.
III. Factors that make west and central African immigrants vulnerable to barriers that limit access to mental healthcare services
a. Increased incidences of mental health problems in the population due to:
b. Lack of finances to seek mental health services due to low educational backgrounds impedes them from securing well-paying jobs (van der Boor & White, 2020).
IV. Interventions that can eliminate the barriers to accessing mental healthcare services that west and central immigrants face
a. Creating public awareness about the significance of seeking mental healthcare
V. Conclusion
