Overview
- Is authored by mostly African American professional counselor educators who examine this unique population's mental health
- Explores the needs, challenges, and diagnosis issues that are common factors within the African American population
- Aims to help African Americans live wholistically
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About this book
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.
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Keywords
- African American mental health needs
- African Americans and resilience
- mental health care access
- barriers to mental health care
- unique mental health challenges of African Americans
- diagnosis issues and African Americans
- African Americans and trauma
- African American mental health professionals
- culture of family togetherness
- spiritual lifestyles and African Americans
- mentally healthy lives
- solution-oriented intervention models
- practical strategic improvements for mental health
- mental health treatment strategies and healings
- vulnerable African American populations
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Americans and Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Practical and Strategic Solutions to Barriers, Needs, and Challenges
Editors: Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77131-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77130-0Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77133-1Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77131-7Published: 25 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 145
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Structure, Social Inequality