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Author : Linda Renee Bentley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Perceptions of Mental Health Services in the Black Community written by Linda Renee Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Verner (Jr.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Mental Health in the African American Community written by Michael Verner (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This systematic review of literature explored the relationship between the perceptions of mental health, its prevalence, and accessibility to services in the African American community. The African American/Black community comprised all people of full or partial sub-Saharan ancestry and included various cultural backgrounds such as Afro-Caribbean/West Indian and direct African descent. The preferred methods of coping among African Americans that were shown to be beneficial to overall mental wellbeing was also discussed. The meta-analysis reviewed and analyzed 45 studies that were written the last 10 years. The results indicated that African Americans were more likely to use religion, familial supports, and other non-clinical interventions due to its ties cultural and spiritual ties to the community. The results also indicated that these same interventions as well as other factors also contributed to stigma and mistrust which served as a barrier to seeking out professional clinical help except in cases of emergencies. The findings found themes that either contributed to or increased the likelihood for poor mental health outcomes such as exposure to violence, discrimination, and environmental factors impacted by disproportionality. Implications for social work, multicultural practice, future social work research, and limitations were also discussed.
Author : Debra A. Harley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Mental Health Issues Among African Americans written by Debra A. Harley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309439124
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author : Hendricks, LaVelle
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668489201
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Changing the Stigma of Mental Health Among African Americans: Moving From Denial to Acceptance written by Hendricks, LaVelle and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health among African Americans historically has been kept secret, and often has been subject to intense denial from both the individuals with mental health concerns and their communities. Thus, African Americans have remained shielded from treatments that are currently available, which may allow them to become mentally healthier and find a sense of psychological homeostasis. Recognizing mental illness treatment as a strength and not a weakness is key to mitigating existing issues of mental health in the African American community today. Changing the Stigma of Mental Health Among African Americans: Moving From Denial to Acceptance provides the history of mental health in the African American community and how denial has hindered and hampered treatment within this community. Covering topics such as bipolar disorder, dementia, and disruptive behavior, this book is ideal for educators, researchers, practitioners, the African American spiritual community, and all individuals concerned about psychological care for African Americans.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309466601
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.
Author : La Verne Elaine Proctor-Streeter
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Black-American Students' Perceptions of Mental Health Needs and Counseling Services and Use of Services written by La Verne Elaine Proctor-Streeter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sana Loue
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387756590
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Determinants of Minority Mental Health and Wellness written by Sana Loue and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is experiencing a dramatic shift in demographics, with minorities comprising a rapidly growing proportion of the population. It is anticipated that this will likely lead to substantial changes in previously established values, needs, and priorities of the population, including health and mental health for individuals, families, and society at large. This volume focuses on determinants of minority mental health and wellness. This emphasis necessarily raises the question of just who is a minority and how is minority to be defined. The term has been defined in any number of ways. Wirth (1945, p. 347) offered one of the earliest definitions of minority: We may define a minority as a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. The existence of a minority in a society implies the existence of a corresponding dominant group enjoying higher social status and greater privileges.
Author : Michael T. Compton
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 1585625175
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Social Determinants of Mental Health written by Michael T. Compton and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Determinants of Mental Health aims to fill the gap that exists in the psychiatric, scholarly, and policy-related literature on the social determinants of mental health: those factors stemming from where we learn, play, live, work, and age that impact our overall mental health and well-being. The editors and an impressive roster of chapter authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds provide detailed information on topics such as discrimination and social exclusion; adverse early life experiences; poor education; unemployment, underemployment, and job insecurity; income inequality, poverty, and neighborhood deprivation; food insecurity; poor housing quality and housing instability; adverse features of the built environment; and poor access to mental health care. This thought-provoking book offers many beneficial features for clinicians and public health professionals: Clinical vignettes are included, designed to make the content accessible to readers who are primarily clinicians and also to demonstrate the practical, individual-level applicability of the subject matter for those who typically work at the public health, population, and/or policy level. Policy implications are discussed throughout, designed to make the content accessible to readers who work primarily at the public health or population level and also to demonstrate the policy relevance of the subject matter for those who typically work at the clinical level. All chapters include five to six key points that focus on the most important content, helping to both prepare the reader with a brief overview of the chapter's main points and reinforce the "take-away" messages afterward. In addition to the main body of the book, which focuses on selected individual social determinants of mental health, the volume includes an in-depth overview that summarizes the editors' and their colleagues' conceptualization, as well as a final chapter coauthored by Dr. David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, that serves as a "Call to Action," offering specific actions that can be taken by both clinicians and policymakers to address the social determinants of mental health. The editors have succeeded in the difficult task of balancing the individual/clinical/patient perspective and the population/public health/community point of view, while underscoring the need for both groups to work in a unified way to address the inequities in twenty-first century America. The Social Determinants of Mental Health gives readers the tools to understand and act to improve mental health and reduce risk for mental illnesses for individuals and communities. Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) will also benefit from this book, as the MCAT in 2015 will test applicants' knowledge of social determinants of health. The social determinants of mental health are not distinct from the social determinants of physical health, although they deserve special emphasis given the prevalence and burden of poor mental health.
Author : Mika Hogains
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Black Minds Matter written by Mika Hogains and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: Despite having greater stress and historical trauma than other races, African Americans are less likely to seek mental health services. Previous studies have posited any number of reasons for this dearth in help-seeking, but few have qualitatively sought the voices of African Americans themselves. Research Question: What are the specific barriers faced by African Americans that cause seeking, receiving, and engaging in mental health services challenging? Methods: The researchers conducted in-depth interviews (N=10) with African American adults who sought mental health services in order to obtain qualitative data. Results: A thematic analysis of transcribed interviews presented 6 areas of concern for mental health help-seeking: (1) Experience (2) Community Perception (3) Access (4) Individual Barriers (5) Misconceptions, and (6) Benefits Service. These themes, along with a variety of subthemes, are discussed in detail. Discussion: African Americans identified multiple experiences within their community that impacted their treatment-seeking behaviors and attitudes. Findings from this study provide a greater understanding of the African American experience associated with their perception of mental health and its influence on attitudes toward mental health services.
Author : Sadye Logan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136430032
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Mental Health Care in the African-American Community written by Sadye Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Louis Appiah-Kubi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Stigma and Acculturation on the Perception of Mental Illness in the Black Community written by Louis Appiah-Kubi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health stigma serves as a chronic barrier to help-seeking and in some cases exacerbates mental health conditions (SAMHSA, 2013). Researchers and clinicians have tried many different methods to reduce these negative attitudes. A popular and usually successful method is education on what mental illness is, its causes, prognosis, and the availability and effectiveness of treatment. Large scale educational efforts have not been adequate in addressing these issues. Therefore, studies are being tailored to find stereotypes within specific communities so as to come up with matching educational protocols (Corrigan & Penn, 2015). The current study explored attitudes among African Americans in comparison to Black immigrants concerning mental illness stigma and accessing mental health services and also examined the effect of acculturation on these attitudes. A convenience sample of African American and Black Immigrant adults completed a battery of inventories including the following: A demographic survey, The Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill scale (CAMI), and the Immigrant Bicultural or Multicultural Identity Scale (IBMI). All 68 participants completed the CAMI scale and the demographic survey, and the 44 immigrant participants completed the IBMI scale in addition. Findings indicated that African Americans were equally sympathetic and compassionate as Black immigrants but were more apprehensive of mental health care facilities being located in their neighborhoods. Also, Black immigrants who had lived in the U.S longer endorsed more positive attitudes than the recently immigrated.
Author : Joseph G. Ponterotto
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Racial/ethnic Minority Counseling Research written by Joseph G. Ponterotto and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan M. Metzl
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807085936
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Protest Psychosis written by Jonathan M. Metzl and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia—for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s—and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the two covers.
Author : Shameka Y. Neely
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Mental Illness Knowledge, Stigma, Help Seeking Behaviors, and Perceptions of Media Portrayals of Black Culture written by Shameka Y. Neely and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this dissertation two studies were conducted to examine connections between mental illness knowledge, spiritual coping measures, help seeking, and the role of the Black church. Further the relationship between racial pride, stigma, and attitudes toward Black media figures and characters who have mental illness was investigated. Manuscript One Abstract Introduction: The first manuscript is entitled Mental Illness Knowledge, Stigma and Help Seeking Behaviors: The Role of Spirituality and The African American Church, and answers two research questions. These are: a) What relationship exists between mental illness knowledge, perceived stigma, spirituality, and reported help seeking behaviors? b) Are there demographical differences between African Americans who are supportive of the Black church playing a role in addressing mental illness versus those who are not? c) What role should the African-American church play in addressing mental illness? Method: To answer the research questions, a convenience sample of 409 African American church going participants was recruited to complete an anonymous survey. Results: Mental illness knowledge correlated with several items, such as help seeking, stigma and the role of the church. In this study, most participants stated they would receive mental health services if justified. Participants who had high levels of knowledge had lower stigma levels. The majority of participants stated that they would participate in help seeking programs if the church provided those opportunities. Most of the participants were very spiritual and attended a faith-based service weekly. Manuscript Two Abstract Introduction: The second manuscript is entitled An Empire State of Mind: Racial Pride, Stigma and Perceptions of Black Mental Illness in the Media, and answers 3 specific research questions. These are: a) What relationship exists between Racial Pride, Stigma and Perceptions of Black mental illness portrayal in the media? b) Do African Americans think that the media plays a role in addressing mental illness stigma in the Black culture? c) What attitudes and perceptions exist about media portrayal of African Americans who have mental illness? Method: A convenience sample of 409 African Americans (same sample for study 1) who were members of a Black church was recruited to respond to an anonymous survey. Results: Participants were generally aware of Black mental illness among figures in the media and in television shows. Participants felt that portrayals in the media influence how the Black community perceives mental illness in their community and are aware of stigma toward it. Participants had high levels of racial pride and a moderate level of stigma against mental illness. However, they saw a need for continued discussion of mental illness in the media to decrease stigma. Participants with high levels of racial pride were more likely to be aware of Black media figures and characters with mental illness, feel that mental illness in Blacks should be discussed in the media and see the media as having a role in reducing said stigma. Participants with higher stigma about mental illness were less likely to perceive mental illness stigma in the media.
