This statistic depicts the distribution of the psychologist workforce in the U.S. in 2021, by ethnicity. According to the data, 81 percent of psychologists in the U.S. identified as white.

In 2020, it was estimated that 20 percent of people in the United States with major depression in majority white communities received some kind of telehealth counseling. This statistic shows the percentage of people in the United States with major depression who received counseling or therapy, by race/ethnicity of communities and by type of treatment.

In 2021, around 16 percent of autistic children in the United States who were white had an unmet need for mental health care. This statistic shows the percentage of children in the United States with autism who had an unmet need for mental health care in 2021.

IntroductionAdvances in social cognitive neuroscience research have contributed deeper understanding of neural processes relevant to art therapy, and of social, interrelational phenomena including racism and implicit bias. Confoundingly, emerging critical discourse about neuroscience research design highlighted systemic racism, implicit bias, and inequality perpetuated by imaging technologies, lack of diversity, and funding disparities. Emphasis toward antiracist practices within cognitive neuroscience research and various other fields has grown; however, literature on antiracist research practices within art therapy research is scant.MethodsThe purpose of this qualitative pilot research study was to elicit conceptualizations about antiracist research practices from art therapy researchers in response to relevant literature. Purposive sampling was used to recruit four female art therapy researchers from the United States (U.S.) and Europe. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using grounded theory coding resulting in three main categories, seven themes, and subthemes. Member-checking and reflexive journaling were employed to enhance credibility.ResultsCore categories revealed points of convergence across participants, areas of concern, and requirements outlining antiracist research practices in art therapy. The first core category, shared beliefs and values, had three themes: neuroscience-informed perspective of art therapy; neuroscience research can strengthen art therapy theories; and infusion of antiracism and neuroscience into art therapy begins with education. The second core category, barriers and challenges, had two themes: potential credibility and legitimacy concerns for art therapy; and difficult conversations about disparities in awareness, diversity, and resources. The third core category, requirements and responsibilities for antiracist research, had two themes: due diligence to build accountability and legitimacy; and inclusion of diversity in art therapy research, and subthemes.DiscussionPreliminary outcomes revealed ideas aligning current antiracist neuroscience research discourse with art therapy experimental research practices. The small group of neuroscience-focused art therapist researchers provided realistic considerations about amplifying discourse within the art therapy profession and infusing antiracist research into neuro-informed art therapy curriculum, and prioritizing diversity throughout experimental research design. An antiracist art therapy research framework with principles including education, intentionality, and diversity was proposed, along with recommendations for further research using the framework and to implement the framework into graduate art therapy education.

Demographic and physiological characteristics for patients initiating antiretroviral therapy across six Caribbean, Central and South America sites (N = 4975).

In 2021, over 14 percent of non-Hispanic white children aged 5 to 17 years in the United States received counseling or therapy from a mental health professional in the past 12 months, compared to around nine percent of non-Hispanic Black children. This statistic illustrates the percentage of U.S. children aged 5 to 17 years who had received any mental health treatment or medication in the past 12 months in 2021, by race.

In 2023, around 59.2 million adults in the United States received treatment or counseling for their mental health within the past year. Such treatment included inpatient or outpatient treatment or counseling, or the use of prescription medication. Anxiety and depression are two common reasons for seeking mental health treatment. Who most often receives mental health treatment? In the United States, women are almost twice as likely than men to have received mental health treatment in the past year, with around 21 percent of adult women receiving some form of mental health treatment in the past year, as of 2021. Considering age, those between 18 and 44 years are more likely to receive counseling or therapy than older adults, however older adults are more likely to take medication to treat their mental health issues. Furthermore, mental health treatment in general is far more common among white adults in the U.S. than among other races or ethnicities. In 2020, around 24.4 percent of white adults received some form of mental health treatment in the past year compared to 15.3 percent of black adults and 12.6 percent of Hispanics. Reasons for not receiving mental health treatment Although stigma surrounding mental health treatment has declined over the last few decades and access to such services has greatly improved, many people in the United States who want or need treatment for mental health issues still do not get it. For example, it is estimated that almost half of women with some form of mental illness did not receive any treatment in the past year, as of 2022. Sadly, the most common reason for U.S. adults to not receive mental health treatment is that they thought they could handle the problem without treatment. Other common reasons for not receiving mental health treatment include not knowing where to go for services or could not afford the costs.

BackgroundHypertension (HTN) currently affects over 120 million Americans, in the United States (US). Thus, the implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBI) for blood pressure (BP) reduction is pivotal in minimizing this burden. We sought to evaluate evidence from published literature on the effectiveness of musical interventions for BP reduction within the US.MethodsA systematic review of studies that utilize music interventions to manage BP was conducted in October of 2022. An extensive search of several databases utilizing MeSH terms and relevant keywords was conducted for articles published through October 2022. An updated search was conducted in October 2023 to identify additional studies.Results2,381 studies were screened for title/abstract relevancy. 1,885 studies were deemed irrelevant, and 495 studies were examined for full-text review; of which 384 were excluded due to being non-US-based. Overall, 25 studies were found where BP was the primary outcome and discussed musical interventions within the US. Of the 25 studies, 72% reported a significant decrease in BP after the administration of a musical intervention and only 28% reported the race and ethnicity of participants.ConclusionThere are limited studies that examine the effect of music interventions on BP reduction in the US, as a primary outcome. However, based on the evidence, musical interventions are effective for BP reduction. Moreover, the studies that were conducted in the US include a low percentage of high-risk racial and ethnic minority populations. Future EBI should target this underserved/high-burden group to improve disparity gaps within BP reduction via non-pharmacological means. Systematic Review RegistrationOpen Science Framework, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4G3EB.

In 2023, around 17 percent of men in the United States received mental health treatment or counseling in the past year. The share of men who have received treatment for mental health problems has increased over the past couple decades likely due to a decrease in stigma around seeking such help and increased awareness of mental health issues. However, women in the U.S. are still much more likely to receive mental health treatment than men. Mental illness among men No one is immune to mental illness and the impact of mental health problems can be severe and debilitating. In 2023, it was estimated that 19 percent of men in the United States had some form of mental illness in the past year. Two of the most common mental disorders among men and women alike are anxiety disorders and depression. Depression is more common among men in their late teens and early 20s, with around 15 percent of U.S. men aged 21 to 25 years reporting experiencing a major depressive episode in the past year as of 2022. Depression is a very treatable condition, but those suffering from depression are at a much higher risk of suicide than those who do not have depression. Suicide among men Although women in the United States are more likely to report suffering from mental illness than men, the suicide rate among U.S. men is around 3.7 times higher than that of women. Suicide deaths among men are much more likely to involve the use of firearms, which may explain some of the disparity in suicide deaths between men and women. In 2020, around 58 percent of suicide deaths among men were from firearms compared to just 33 percent of suicide deaths among women. Although more people in the United States are accessing mental health, barriers to treatment persist. In 2022, the thought that they could handle the problem without treatment was the number one reason U.S. adults gave for not receiving the mental health treatment they required.

To estimate county of residence of Filipinx healthcare workers who died of COVID-19, we retrieved data from the Kanlungan website during the month of December 2020.22 In deciding who to include on the website, the AF3IRM team that established the Kanlungan website set two standards in data collection. First, the team found at least one source explicitly stating that the fallen healthcare worker was of Philippine ancestry; this was mostly media articles or obituaries sharing the life stories of the deceased. In a few cases, the confirmation came directly from the deceased healthcare worker's family member who submitted a tribute. Second, the team required a minimum of two sources to identify and announce fallen healthcare workers. We retrieved 86 US tributes from Kanlungan, but only 81 of them had information on county of residence. In total, 45 US counties with at least one reported tribute to a Filipinx healthcare worker who died of COVID-19 were identified for analysis and will hereafter be referred to as “Kanlungan counties.” Mortality data by county, race, and ethnicity came from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).24 Updated weekly, this dataset is based on vital statistics data for use in conducting public health surveillance in near real time to provide provisional mortality estimates based on data received and processed by a specified cutoff date, before data are finalized and publicly released.25 We used the data released on December 30, 2020, which included provisional COVID-19 death counts from February 1, 2020 to December 26, 2020—during the height of the pandemic and prior to COVID-19 vaccines being available—for counties with at least 100 total COVID-19 deaths. During this time period, 501 counties (15.9% of the total 3,142 counties in all 50 states and Washington DC)26 met this criterion. Data on COVID-19 deaths were available for six major racial/ethnic groups: Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native, Non-Hispanic Asian (hereafter referred to as Asian American), and Hispanic. People with more than one race, and those with unknown race were included in the “Other” category. NCHS suppressed county-level data by race and ethnicity if death counts are less than 10. In total, 133 US counties reported COVID-19 mortality data for Asian Americans. These data were used to calculate the percentage of all COVID-19 decedents in the county who were Asian American. We used data from the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates, downloaded from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) to create county-level population demographic variables.27 IPUMS is publicly available, and the database integrates samples using ACS data from 2000 to the present using a high degree of precision.27 We applied survey weights to calculate the following variables at the county-level: median age among Asian Americans, average income to poverty ratio among Asian Americans, the percentage of the county population that is Filipinx, and the percentage of healthcare workers in the county who are Filipinx. Healthcare workers encompassed all healthcare practitioners, technical occupations, and healthcare service occupations, including nurse practitioners, physicians, surgeons, dentists, physical therapists, home health aides, personal care aides, and other medical technicians and healthcare support workers. County-level data were available for 107 out of the 133 counties (80.5%) that had NCHS data on the distribution of COVID-19 deaths among Asian Americans, and 96 counties (72.2%) with Asian American healthcare workforce data. The ACS 2018 five-year estimates were also the source of county-level percentage of the Asian American population (alone or in combination) who are Filipinx.8 In addition, the ACS provided county-level population counts26 to calculate population density (people per 1,000 people per square mile), estimated by dividing the total population by the county area, then dividing by 1,000 people. The county area was calculated in ArcGIS 10.7.1 using the county boundary shapefile and projected to Albers equal area conic (for counties in the US contiguous states), Hawai’i Albers Equal Area Conic (for Hawai’i counties), and Alaska Albers Equal Area Conic (for Alaska counties).20

Note. STAI-S: State Anxiety Inventory; STAI-T: Trait Anxiety Inventory—Trait Measure; ASI: Anxiety Sensitivity Index; US: Unconditioned Stimulus (i.e., shock); CS: Conditioned Stimulus.* p < .1.Mean values (standard deviations in parenthesis) per group for demographic characteristics, STAI-S, STAI-T, ASI, selected US level, US characteristics and CS evaluations.

The Gen Z mental health market, encompassing individuals aged 12-27, is experiencing substantial growth, projected to reach $30.89 billion in 2025 and exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.25% from 2025 to 2033. This expansion is driven by several key factors. Increased awareness of mental health issues among Gen Z, coupled with the rising prevalence of anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders within this demographic, fuels demand for accessible and effective solutions. Technological advancements, including the proliferation of telehealth platforms and mobile mental health apps, are significantly enhancing accessibility and convenience, lowering barriers to entry for seeking help. Furthermore, the evolving stigma surrounding mental health, particularly within younger generations, is fostering a more open and accepting environment conducive to seeking professional support. The market segmentation reveals a diverse landscape, with varying needs across age groups (12-16, 17-21, 22-27 years), genders, and specific mental health conditions (anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, eating disorders). This diversity necessitates tailored solutions and targeted marketing strategies to maximize reach and impact. This burgeoning market is characterized by a competitive landscape featuring established players like Headspace, Talkspace, and BetterHelp, alongside innovative startups offering specialized services. North America currently dominates the market share, largely due to high awareness, advanced healthcare infrastructure, and robust digital penetration. However, other regions, particularly Asia-Pacific and Europe, are exhibiting promising growth potential driven by increasing disposable incomes, improved internet connectivity, and growing government initiatives supporting mental health services. The market's trajectory is heavily influenced by factors like technological innovation (AI-powered mental health tools, virtual reality therapy), evolving regulatory frameworks governing telehealth, and ongoing efforts to destigmatize mental health conversations. The continued expansion of the market hinges on sustained investment in research and development, improving access to affordable and culturally sensitive care, and fostering collaborative partnerships between stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem. This report provides a detailed analysis of the burgeoning Gen Z mental health market, valued at $XXX million in 2025 and projected to reach $XXX million by 2033. It covers the period from 2019 to 2033, with 2025 serving as the base year. This in-depth study examines market dynamics, key players, emerging trends, and growth opportunities within this critical sector. The report is essential for investors, healthcare providers, technology developers, and anyone seeking to understand the unique needs and challenges facing Gen Z's mental wellbeing. Recent developments include: September 2023: Caraway, a New York-based Gen Z health services provider, reported the acquisition of Sesh, a digital group therapy platform that provides mental and physical health services as well as sexual and reproductive health offerings for Gen Z women.May 2023: DHI Insights, a digital healthcare company, launched BMOXI, a mental health app for teen girls. This app helps teen girls who are facing a mental health crisis.. Key drivers for this market are: Increasing Prevalence of Mental Health Diseases in Gen Z, Growing Technological Advancements. Potential restraints include: Increasing Prevalence of Mental Health Diseases in Gen Z, Growing Technological Advancements. Notable trends are: Depression Segment Expected to Hold a Significant Market Share Over the Forecast Period.

It has been predicted that by the year 2020 total U.S. expenditure on mental health services will reach some 238 billion dollars. Mental health remains a relevant and difficult issue in the United States. Common mental disorders in the U.S. include anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and dementia. As of 2017, around 15 percent of males and 22 percent of females reported some mental illness in the past year.

Depression

Depression is one of the most common and well-known mental disorders. Depression is a severe mood disorder marked by extended and persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, hopelessness, irritability, worthlessness, hopelessness and a loss of interest in hobbies and activities. It is estimated that around 8 percent of adults in the U.S. suffer from depression. Depression is more common among women than men, with around 9.3 percent of women suffering from depression, compared to 5.4 percent of men.

Treatment

Mental health disorders are usually treated through therapy, medication, or a combination of both, depending on the disorder and severity. Access to quality and inexpensive mental health treatment is essential, but often lacking. As of 2017, the United States had around 11,582 mental health treatment facilities. However, it has been found that around 42 percent of adults with an unmet need for mental health care stated they did not receive mental health services in the past year because they could not afford the cost.

Since 1982, an astonishing 145 mass shootings have been carried out in the United States by male shooters. In contrast, only four mass shootings (defined by the source as a single attack in a public place in which four or more victims were killed) have been carried out by women. Gun ownership in the U.S. Possession of firearms in the United States is protected by the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution and has been a defining aspect of American civil liberties since the writing of the Bill of Rights. It is estimated that the United States has the highest rate of civilian-owned firearms in the world, and Americans continually poll against handgun restrictions. Mass shootings However, with high gun ownership comes high responsibility. The United States consistently faces numerous mass shootings each year, particularly in schools. The five deadliest mass shootings have all occurred since 2007, with the deadliest being the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017, which claimed the lives of 58 people and injured 546 more.