The America Medical and Psychological Associations are woke

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Life experiences do matter with diagnosing mental health ailments. You don't think being in a marginalized group would effect mental health?

If anything looking at factors like socio-economic class and if one faces discrimination on the basis of sexuality race or sex would help further individualize treatments for people who face different struggles.

Relevant treatments occur when the individual is correctly diagnosed. To do that the clinician has to look at the individual as an individual not as a member of a privileged or oppressed group.

Life experiences do matter with diagnosing mental health ailments. You don't think being in a marginalized group would effect mental health?

If anything looking at factors like socio-economic class and if one faces discrimination on the basis of sexuality race or sex would help further individualize treatments for people who face different struggles.

Diagnosis has nothing to do with the person's background?? you are conflating two completely different issues

How can diagnosis and treatment not be conflated since the treatment is based on the diagnoses?

Diagnosing a disorder + providing a treatment has nothing to do with a person's race

Individual life experiences absolutely matter. Being in a marginalized group makes it more likely one will experience discrimination it does not automatically make it so. Discrimination may be a defining feature for one person's problems, while family dynamics is the main reason or the only reason for a discriminated person's problem.

You have met one person from a marginalized group(s), you have met one person from the same marginalized group(s).

Taking marginalized status into consideration =|= treating every marginalized group member as if they're the same.

A long while back I mentioned the the lack of diagnosis/delayed diagnosis for blacks on WP thread. A black WP member disagreed. That person at least diagnosis wise probably was not oppressed, it would be wrong to treat her as a oppressed based on her race.

This can be explained by poorer mental health literacy, lower average income, distance from services are among the barriers to accessing mental health services or mental health assessment among black parents

Many of these are not the fault of service providers.

Which kind of proves my point, none of the above is about racial oppression per se, so to look at race first before all else as the CRT/anti-racism training worldview is about is will put lower on the priority issues that are more important.

If the patient reports discrimination etc, take that into account, don't assume it. CRT upon which these guidelines are clearly based on does not say every member of a group is exactly the same, it does assume oppression or privilege(or both) based on the persons group.

Two different things.
1. The reason for the disparity is primarily Socioeconomic status
2, The recommendation to service providers is to address disparity in service

The two are mutually exclusive

How about you comment on what these guidelines actually say, instead of what you're assuming they secretly mean because you associate them with a theoretical perspective that you have an oversimplified view of?

I would advise American unwoke members not to panic not because there is nothing to see there, but because many professionals join these type of organizations just for the perks and benefits but do their own thing in their private practice. For instance I have not read of any APA members being thrown out because they do not follow the DSM 5 Autism diagnostic criteria written by the APA. There have been American WP members diagnosed with Aspergers after 2013.

This will embolden those who believe in woke ideologies but were afraid to put it in their practice to do so. Since CRT has been around in academia for decades some of these professionals have been educated at schools where CRT principles are taught. An important benefit for joining an professional association is social gatherings with your peers. This could lead to peer pressure. While these type of mission statements have traditionally been largely virtue signaling in the past it is wrong to assume it will always be so in the future. This ideology emphasizes monitoring for conformity.

When seeing an autism professional it is advisable to be aware if your clinician is diagnosing or treating you based on outdated or quack ideas about autism. When seeing ones medical doctor it is advisable to be cognizant of profit motives. What these new policies means is that in addition we have to be cognizant of being stereotyped as oppressed or privileged and treated for our political beliefs. How much these policies take hold and how long it will take is unknown.

The guidelines are not focused on socioeconomic status as primary causation but race. Focusing on secondary causes may mean missing that there is a disparity in service.