A psychological understanding of the elevated incident rates of psychosis, within specific ethnic minority populations

Volume I: Literature Review(1) and Empirical Paper (2) 1) The literature review explores the psychological evidence that has been used to explain the higher rates of psychosis in specific ethnic minority groups. Ethnic differences in psychotic-like experiences and perceptions of inequality were the factors most robustly explored. However, due to several limitations, the extent to which these factors directly explained the higher rates remained unclear. 2) Through the narrative accounts of Black-Caribbean patients, several key experiences in the life of the participants emerged, included the negative social interactions and effects of unemployment. Through a process of synthesis, greater levels of stress, trauma, and social marginalisation were some of the possible psychological explanations, for the known ethnic disparities in the rates of psychosis