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Mental Health Care in the African-American Community
Author(s): Sadye L. Logan (Editor), Romona Denby (Editor), Priscilla A. Gibson (Editor)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: November 8, 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 444 pages
- ISBN-10: 0789026112
- ISBN-13: 9780789026118
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Critically examines the historical roots of persistent disparities in mental health status and treatment of people of African descent in the United States… Particularly valuable… Essential for social workers and other practitioners to increase their cultural competence with African Americans, transform systems of care, and improve mental health care outcomes. —
Salome Raheim, PhD, ACSW, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, The University of IowaProvides information in three key areas… Provides education about the history of inadequate and biased treatment of African Americans in the mental health system in this country… Describes the many resources currently existing in African American communities which support mental health, including: the role of spirituality and religion; ‘kinship care’ already provided by many African American families; and the concept of ‘Soul’ as a resource treatment… Provides suggestions for culturally sensitive interventions in a variety of contexts: in child welfare practice, in substance abuse treatment of individuals with depression, in suicide prevention, and in many other contexts. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for group exercises, which will be extremely helpful as learning tools for the classroom… Will serve as a valuable resource for both mental health treatment providers and classroom instructors. —
Gloria Hegge, MSW, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Newman University, Wichita, KSProvides insight and wisdom from which all who work with the mental health concerns of African Americans can benefit… Readers will find most valuable the sections exploring the most contemporary topics of professional and community concern… Brings erudition to current issues and intragroup concerns by edging the critical content with classroom and discussion activities for each topic… A valuable resource for students, teachers, and professionals. —
Barbara W. White, PhD, Dean and Centennial Professor in Leadership for Community, Professional, and Corporate Excellence School of Social Work, The University of Texas at AustinAbout the Author
Sadye M. L. Logan, DSW, ACSW, LICSW-CP, holds the I. DeQuincy Newman Endowed Professorship in Social Justice at the University of South Carolina College of Social Work. She teaches practice method courses and courses on family treatment. Her research interests include social justice issues impacting families and children, culturally specific services for children and families of color, the psycho-spiritual dimensions of practice and education, addictive behaviors, and racial identity development. Dr. Logan has written and published extensively in these areas.
Ramona W. Denby, PhD, ACSW, is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Social Work. Dr. Denby has worked with children and families in a wide capacity for more than ten years. Her teaching interests include direct practice, human behavior, child welfare, and culturally-specific service practice. Dr. Denby’s research interests involve programming and treatment issues relevant to children and families. Specifically, Dr. Denby conducts research in the areas of child welfare, children’s mental health, juvenile delinquency, and culturally-specific service delivery. She has published extensively in the leading social work journals.
Pricilla A. Gibson, PhD, ACSW, LICSW, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. She is a licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), who has over 25 years of direct social work practice experience with diverse populations. Her research interests include African-American grandmothers and other older caregivers in kinship care arrangements, qualitative research methods, African-American adolescents and their families, and adoption. She has published in the leading social work journals.
