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.
Key Features
- Evidence-based practice for individualising and translating evidence into practice.
- Provides a social work context for all helping professions.
- User-friendly presentation of complex subjects with chapter summaries.
- Includes figures and tables to clearly illustrate data.
- Extensively referenced and includes suggested group/classroom activities.
Additional Information
This valuable book provides the helping community with non-traditional, expanded ways of thinking and intervening in the mental health needs and care of African Americans. 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!
