Mental Health Care in the African-American Community

<p>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. <em>Mental Health Care in the African-American Community</em> 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. <br><br><em>Mental Health Care in the African-American Community</em> 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. <br><br>Topics in <em>Mental Health Care in the African-American Community</em> include:</p><ul> <li>a historical overview of African Americans’ mental health care </li> <li>a conceptual and theoretical framework for African Americans’ mental health </li> <li>current issues affecting mental health intervention for African Americans </li> <li>mental health in group homes and foster care </li> <li>depression </li> <li>substance abuse </li> <li>poverty </li> <li>ADHD </li> <li>suicide </li> <li>mental health in elderly African Americans </li> <li>mental health policy </li> <li>rural African American mental health needs </li> <li>kinship care </li> <li>multiethnic families and children </li> <li>much much more! </li> </ul><p><em>Mental Health Care in the African-American Community</em> is a valuable textbook for practitioners; administrators; researchers; policymakers; educators; and students in social work psychology mental health services case management and community planning.</p>