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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dorothy S Ruiz |
| ISBN: | 0313263302 9780313263309 |
| OCLC Number: | 20823375 |
| Description: | xxiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / James P. Comer -- Introduction / Dorothy S. Ruiz -- Social and economic profile of Black Americans, 1989 / Dorothy S. Ruiz -- The mental health status of Black Americans, 1983 / Alvin F. Poussaint -- The epidemiology of mental disorder in the Black population / Harold W. Neighbors and Suzan Lumpkin -- Depression among Blacks : an epidemiologic perspective / Diane Robinson Brown -- Suicide trends of Blacks and whites by sex and age / Jacquelyne J. Jackson -- Black mental health and racial oppression / Joycelyn Landrum-Brown -- Stress, coping, and social support : their effects on Black women / Patricia J. Dunston -- Ethnic and cultural factors in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment / James L. Collins ... [et al.]. Social factors in diagnosis and treatment / Clyde B. Mathura and Melanie A. Baer -- Understanding family violence : an Afrocentric analysis based on optimal theory / Linda James Myers -- Black-on-Black homicide : the implications for Black community mental health / Carl C. Bell -- Legal issues in mental health / Alice Gresham Bullock -- Mental health and social policy / Mary S. Harper -- Psychosocial competence : toward a theory of understanding positive mental health among Black Americans / Louis P. Anderson, Chuck L. Eaddy, and Ernestine A. Williams -- Coping with color : the anatomy of positive mental health / Barbara J. Shade -- Factors contributing to positive mental health among Black Americans / Anderson J. Franklin and James S. Jackson. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Dorothy S. Ruiz ; foreword by James P. Comer. |
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- African Americans -- Mental health.
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