International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health
Majors, R (ed)
International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health - Bingley : Emerald, 2020
This comprehensive handbook on black community mental health uses a cultural competence framework to cover many classic mental health and developmental areas such as schizophrenia, mental health disorders, ASD, ADHD. It also covers inequalities, racism and discrimination in mental health practice, in graduate school training and in racialised supervisory experiences e.g. micro-aggressions, between white academics and staff and black university students studying to become mental health practitioners. It includes personal accounts that put a human face on the black therapists and students who have been victims or racism. [from publisher's abstract]. It is divided into 6 parts. Part I Race Relations covers: systemic racism - big black, mad and dangerous in the criminal justice system; racial battle fatigue - the long term effects of racial microaggressions on African American boys and man; racism in academia; implicit provider bias and its implications for black/African mental health. Part II covers Policy including: thirty years of Black History Month and thirty years of overrepresentation in the mental health system; remaining mindful about children and young people. Part III covers interventions including: cultural competencies in delivering counselling and psychotherapy services to a black multicultural population - time for change and action; social and emotional education and emotional wellness - a cultural competence model for black boys and teachers; moving young black men beyond survival mode - protective factors for their mental health; targeted intervention in education and the empowerment and emotional wellbeing of black boys. Part IV covers Theory and Practice including: marginal leaders - making visible the leadership experiences of black women in a therapeutic service for disenfranchised young people; forty years in the wilderness - a review of systemic barriers to reducing the over-representation of black men in the UK psychiatric system; oppositional and defiant behaviours among black boys in schools - techniques to facilitate change; transracial adoption and mental health. Part V: Clinical Practice including: sensory processing difficulties; forced marriage; systemic family therapy with transgenerational communities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Part VI: Recommendations"
9781839099656
International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health - Bingley : Emerald, 2020
This comprehensive handbook on black community mental health uses a cultural competence framework to cover many classic mental health and developmental areas such as schizophrenia, mental health disorders, ASD, ADHD. It also covers inequalities, racism and discrimination in mental health practice, in graduate school training and in racialised supervisory experiences e.g. micro-aggressions, between white academics and staff and black university students studying to become mental health practitioners. It includes personal accounts that put a human face on the black therapists and students who have been victims or racism. [from publisher's abstract]. It is divided into 6 parts. Part I Race Relations covers: systemic racism - big black, mad and dangerous in the criminal justice system; racial battle fatigue - the long term effects of racial microaggressions on African American boys and man; racism in academia; implicit provider bias and its implications for black/African mental health. Part II covers Policy including: thirty years of Black History Month and thirty years of overrepresentation in the mental health system; remaining mindful about children and young people. Part III covers interventions including: cultural competencies in delivering counselling and psychotherapy services to a black multicultural population - time for change and action; social and emotional education and emotional wellness - a cultural competence model for black boys and teachers; moving young black men beyond survival mode - protective factors for their mental health; targeted intervention in education and the empowerment and emotional wellbeing of black boys. Part IV covers Theory and Practice including: marginal leaders - making visible the leadership experiences of black women in a therapeutic service for disenfranchised young people; forty years in the wilderness - a review of systemic barriers to reducing the over-representation of black men in the UK psychiatric system; oppositional and defiant behaviours among black boys in schools - techniques to facilitate change; transracial adoption and mental health. Part V: Clinical Practice including: sensory processing difficulties; forced marriage; systemic family therapy with transgenerational communities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Part VI: Recommendations"
9781839099656