"Sorry, I'm Not Accepting New Patients": An Audit Study of Access to Mental Health Care.
Through a phone-based field experiment, I investigated the effect of mental help seekers' race, class, and gender on the accessibility of psychotherapists. Three hundred and twenty psychotherapists each received voicemail messages from one black middle-class and one white middle-class help seeker, o...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Health & Social Behavior Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 168 - 184 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2016
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