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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 124, No. 5

Articles | November 01, 1967

Racial Factors in Patient Selection

JOE YAMAMOTO; QUINTON C. JAMES; MILTON BLOOMBAUM; JACK HATTEM

Am J Psychiatry 1967;124:630-636.

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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1934 Hospital Place, Los Angeles, Calif. 90033, and Director, Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Los Angeles County General Hospital

Resident Fellow in Child Psychiatry at Los Angeles County General Hospital

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) at the University of Southern California School of Medicine

1967-68, American Psychiatric Association

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Abstract

A previous study of 594 consecutive admissions to an outpatient clinic indicated that patients were being treated differently depending upon factors of race. The followup reported here showed that therapists with low ethnocentricity (as measured by the Bogardus Social Distance Scale) more often treated ethnic-minority patients in proportions comparable with Caucasian patients and that therapists with greater feelings of ethnocentricity less often saw minority-group patients in treatment lasting six or more visits.

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