African American Children And Mental Health

Author : Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030771334

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African Americans and Mental Health by Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson Pdf

This book enumerates the unique challenges, barriers, needs, and trauma of being an African American in the United States, and at the same time highlights what needs to be done to improve and foster the mental health healing of this population. This includes practical applications and strategic solutions that work, such as the family togetherness and ardent spiritual beliefs that form the basis for resilient and vibrant mental health among African Americans. This contributed volume features the authorship of counseling professionals, most of whom are African American themselves. Because of their own personal experiences, they are able to emphasize cogent helping strategies for this population, to show how to move forward with encouragement. The book also highlights ways to promote life that is mentally healthy and holistic for African Americans. Topics covered within the chapters include: Mental Health Challenges Unique to African American Children and Adolescents Diagnosis Issues with African Americans Culture of Family Togetherness, Emotional Resilience, and Spiritual Lifestyles Inherent in African Americans from the Time of Slavery Until Now The Trauma of Being an African American in the 21st Century Training, Recruiting, and Retaining African American Mental Health Professionals African Americans and Mental Health: Practical and Strategic Solutions to Barriers, Needs, and Challenges is an essential resource for helping professionals who work with this population, including psychiatrists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals. The book also should be of interest to researchers, instructors, and students in Counseling, Social Work, and Psychology.

Author : Nancy E. Hill,Tammy Mann,Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313383038

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African American Children and Mental Health by Nancy E. Hill,Tammy Mann,Hiram E. Fitzgerald Pdf

This groundbreaking two-volume set examines the psychological, social, physical, and environmental factors that undermine or support healthy development in African American children while considering economic, historical, and public policies. How does one go about shifting the psychology of a people whose sense of worth, purpose, and potential have been denigrated and disenfranchised for decades? What specific factors conspire to douse African American children's dreams before they reach adolescence? And what can we learn from African American families determined to help their children beat the odds and succeed? This unique two-volume set examines the forces affecting psychological development and achievement motivation in African American children today. These books address the current political, global, economic, and social contexts as they impact African American families and tackle the tough issues of genes, environment, and race. Experts from leading universities, research institutes, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations discuss factors such as parenting beliefs and practices, peer influences, school and community environments, racial profiling, race and ethnicity, spirituality, and immigrant status.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054173375

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African American children
ISBN : 1780349505

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African American Children and Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

This groundbreaking two-volume set examines the psychological, social, physical, and environmental factors that undermine or support healthy development in African American children while considering economic, historical, and public policies.

Author : Nancy E. Hill,Tammy Mann,Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0313383022

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African American Children and Mental Health by Nancy E. Hill,Tammy Mann,Hiram E. Fitzgerald Pdf

How does one go about shifting the psychology of a people whose sense of worth, purpose, and potential have been denigrated and disenfranchised for decades? What specific factors conspire to douse African American children's dreams before they reach adolescence? And what can we learn from African American families determined to help their children beat the odds and succeed? This unique two-volume set examines the forces affecting psychological development and achievement motivation in African American children today. These books address the current political, global, economic, and social contexts as they impact African American families and tackle the tough issues of genes, environment, and race. Experts from leading universities, research institutes, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations discuss factors such as parenting beliefs and practices, peer influences, school and community environments, racial profiling, race and ethnicity, spirituality, and immigrant status.

Author : Sadye Logan,Ramona Denby,Priscilla A Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136430039

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Mental Health Care in the African-American Community by Sadye Logan,Ramona Denby,Priscilla A Gibson Pdf

Over the course of an African American’s lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual’s unique interactions with his or her environment. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community uses this perspective to provide a deeper analysis of factors and issues affecting the mental health of African Americans. This comprehensive text provides a current and historical analysis of the impact of mental health research, policy, community, and clinical practice from a life course perspective. Stressing evidence-based practice as an expanded way to think and talk about individualizing and translating evidence into a given practice situation, this valuable book provides a social work context for all helping professions. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community provides the helping community with non-traditional, expanded ways of thinking and intervening in the mental health needs and care of African Americans. Organized logically, this complex subject presents data in a user-friendly way that engages the reader, and provides chapter summaries and suggested group/classroom activities to facilitate understanding. This text is extensively referenced and includes figures and tables to clearly illustrate data. Topics in Mental Health Care in the African-American Community include: a historical overview of African Americans’ mental health care a conceptual and theoretical framework for African Americans’ mental health current issues affecting mental health intervention for African Americans mental health in group homes and foster care depression substance abuse poverty ADHD suicide mental health in elderly African Americans mental health policy rural African American mental health needs kinship care multiethnic families and children much, much more! Mental Health Care in the African-American Community is a valuable textbook for practitioners; administrators; researchers; policymakers; educators; and students in social work, psychology, mental health services, case management, and community planning.

Author : Alfiee M. Breland-Noble,Cheryl S. Al-Mateen,Nirbhay N. Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319255019

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Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth by Alfiee M. Breland-Noble,Cheryl S. Al-Mateen,Nirbhay N. Singh Pdf

This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert insights into sociocultural factors that influence mental health, the prevalence of particular disorders among African American adolescents, ethnically salient assessment and diagnostic methods, and the evidence base for specific models. The information presented in this handbook helps bring the field closer to critical goals: increasing access to treatment, preventing misdiagnosis and over hospitalization, and reducing and ending disparities in research and care. Topics featured in this book include: The epidemiology of mental disorders in African American youth. Culturally relevant diagnosis and assessment of mental illness. Uses of dialectical behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy. Community approaches to promoting positive mental health and psychosocial well-being. Culturally relevant psychopharmacology. Future directions for the field. The Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in child and school psychology, public health, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, family medicine, and social work.

Author : Ezra E. H. Griffith, M.D,Billy E. Jones, M.D.,Altha J. Stewart, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781615372065

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Black Mental Health by Ezra E. H. Griffith, M.D,Billy E. Jones, M.D.,Altha J. Stewart, M.D. Pdf

The experiences of both black patients and the black mental health professionals who serve them are analyzed against the backdrop of the cultural, societal, and professional forces that have shaped their place in this specialized health care arena.

Author : Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.),National Black Child Development Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American children
ISBN : MINN:31951D02267468C

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An Activity Book for African American Families by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.),National Black Child Development Institute Pdf

Author : Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030771317

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African Americans and Mental Health by Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson Pdf

This book enumerates the unique challenges, barriers, needs, and trauma of being an African American in the United States, and at the same time highlights what needs to be done to improve and foster the mental health healing of this population. This includes practical applications and strategic solutions that work, such as the family togetherness and ardent spiritual beliefs that form the basis for resilient and vibrant mental health among African Americans. This contributed volume features the authorship of counseling professionals, most of whom are African American themselves. Because of their own personal experiences, they are able to emphasize cogent helping strategies for this population, to show how to move forward with encouragement. The book also highlights ways to promote life that is mentally healthy and holistic for African Americans. Topics covered within the chapters include: Mental Health Challenges Unique to African American Children and Adolescents Diagnosis Issues with African Americans Culture of Family Togetherness, Emotional Resilience, and Spiritual Lifestyles Inherent in African Americans from the Time of Slavery Until Now The Trauma of Being an African American in the 21st Century Training, Recruiting, and Retaining African American Mental Health Professionals African Americans and Mental Health: Practical and Strategic Solutions to Barriers, Needs, and Challenges is an essential resource for helping professionals who work with this population, including psychiatrists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals. The book also should be of interest to researchers, instructors, and students in Counseling, Social Work, and Psychology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Mental health
ISBN : MINN:31951P005986915

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erlanger A. Turner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498565794

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Mental Health Among African Americans by Erlanger A. Turner Pdf

In Mental Health among African Americans: Innovations in Research and Practice, Erlanger A. Turner presents a new theoretical framework that emphasizes culturally sensitive clinical practices and Afrocentric values in order to address the lower rates of African Americans seeking medical treatment in the United States.

Author : Edward Chang,Christina A. Downey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461404248

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Handbook of Race and Development in Mental Health by Edward Chang,Christina A. Downey Pdf

This project is unique in the field for a number of reasons, both in structure and in content. Specifically, it will have leading experts on specific age groups (Childhood to Adolescence, Young Adulthood to Middle Age, and The Elderly) within the cultural groups of interest (European-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans) contribute a chapter covering current research on both positive and negative functioning for each population. Each chapter will present basic demographic information, strengths that contribute to resilience, and three significant challenges each group faces to maintaining mental health. Each chapter will then include an integrative section, where ideas are advanced about how the strengths of each group can be harnessed to address the challenges that group faces. To conclude, each chapter will propose future directions for research which addresses integrative approaches to mental health for each group, and the implications that such approaches could have for future treatment. The main points of each section of each chapter will be visually summarized in a concluding table.

Author : Frederick T. Leong,Linda Juang,Desiree B. Qin,Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313383014

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Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health by Frederick T. Leong,Linda Juang,Desiree B. Qin,Hiram E. Fitzgerald Pdf

This first-of-its-kind, two-volume set examines physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that undermine—or support—healthy development in Asian American children. How do skin color, culture, racial and ethnic identities, politics, economics, and environment influence children's mental health and academic success? Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health spotlights these forces and more. This unique, two-volume work examines a wide range of factors that affect children, including family conditions and economic status, child abuse, substance abuse, gangs, and community stability, as well as prejudices such as the common expectation that Asian Americans are a "model minority" and their children "whiz kids." Since education is key to success, contributors consider the factors affecting Asian American children largely in the context of educational readiness and academic adjustment. However, the set is not limited to exploring problems. It also looks at factors that help Asian American children be mentally healthy, engaged, and successful at school and in later life. Volume one of the set explores development and context, while volume two looks at prevention and treatment.

Author : Yvette R. Harris, PhD,James A. Graham, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826101046

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The African American Child by Yvette R. Harris, PhD,James A. Graham, PhD Pdf

"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable foundation for further investigations. This nonpolemic book should be in all libraries, filling an unfortunate gap. Highly recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries This major new textbook introduces students to issues that have an impact on the lives of African American children but have typically been ignored (or inadequately discussed) in mainstream child development textbooks. The authors hope to familiarize students with a sampling of research that moves beyond a deficit view of the development of the African American child while stimulating critical thinking about future directions for research on African American children and their families. The book is designed to be student friendly--with each chapter presenting an overview of the material covered as well as an "Insider's Voice" (which offers a personal story or viewpoint about the issues discussed in the chapter). Each chapter goes on to feature a dialogue of current biological, environmental, constructivist, and cultural-contextual theories) as well as suggestions for additional reading, videos, websites, and questions to guide critical thinking.