Ethnicity And Depression
Ethnicity plays a role in depression. The rates of suicide in 2016 are the highest for males and females in the American Indian/Alaskan native group, followed by males and females in the white non-Hispanic group. Martin G. Lopez, Psychotherapist with Care and Counseling at Baptist Health South Florida, says it has to be with the complete loss of culture in which these individuals were pushed out of their land and they were placed in somewhere new and they had to take on a different culture.
"We're especially seeing a really high rate in youth, 15 to 24 of American Indians also going up by 70 percent. We also tend to see things that are risk factors for suicide behavior, such as higher levels of poverty, higher levels of substance use, as well as domestic violence," he explains.
