African Americans and Mental Health
Practical and Strategic Solutions to Barriers, Needs, and Challenges
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Beschreibung
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
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
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
Autor*in
Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson
Themen in »African Americans and Mental Health«
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