- Title: People First: Black And Blue
- Date: 2nd June 1994
- Summary: This PEOPLE FIRST focuses on the care provided by black-run self-help groups for the mentally ill - projecting real alternatives to the conventional psychiatric practices that have largely failed to meet the needs of the black community in Britain. Mental health services are now in crisis but the black community feels it is suffering more than most. The issue of race within psychiatry is at its most apparent in the psychiatric hospitals and institutions where, in the words of one doctor in the film, "there is an over-representation of black people". Three individuals at different stages in their treatment offer graphic confirmation of the inadequacies - describing just how the institutional psychiatric services have failed them and how they are now deriving clear benefits - including hope and new-found self-esteem - from the care offered by black self-help groups.
- Description:MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY - FOCUS ON SOME SELF HELP STRATEGIES.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:MIRUS PRODUCTIONS
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:02/06/1994
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s