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Vanderbilt: Incarceration of Family Members Negatively Impacts Mental Health Outcomes for African American Women
September 03, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 3 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:

More than half of all African American women in the United States report having at least one family member who is incarcerated, causing higher levels of depressive symptoms and psychological distress than previously understood.

The findings come from a new paper in the Journal of Marriage and Family (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12699), whose lead author, Evelyn J. Patterson, associate p . . .

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