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Mental Health in Black America

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This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to overcome adversity and maintain a positive, healthy perspective on life. Based on data obtained from a United States National Survey of Black Americans, the book first discusses psychological and sociological factors affecting life satisfaction. Contributors then explore how these psychosocial factors contribute to such health problems as alcoholism and hypertension. The volume concludes with an examination of strategies Black Americans use in their attempt to solve life problems. These include: prayer; avoidance; active problem-solving; and seeking help from family, community mental health providers and law enforcement agencies.
Foreword - Gerald Gurin Mental Health in Black America - Harold W Neighbors and James S Jackson Psychosocial Problems and Help-Seeking Behavior A Model-Free Approach to the Study of Subjective Well-Being - Carolyn B Murray and M Jean Peacock Stress and Residential Well-Being - Gayle Y Phillips Problem Drinking, Chronic Disease and Recent Life Events - Isidore Silas Obot An Analysis of Stress Denial - Rhoda E Barge Johnson and Joan E Crowley Marital Status and Mental Health - Diane R Brown The Association between Anger-Hostility and Hypertension - Ernest H Johnson and Larry M Gant Coping with Personal Problems - Clifford L Broman Kin and Nonkin as Sources of Informal Assistance - Robert Joseph Taylor, Cheryl Burns Hardison and Linda M Chatters Predisposing, Enabling and Need Factors Related to Patterns of Help-Seeking among African American Women - Cleopatra Howard Caldwell Mental Health Symptoms and Service Utilization Patterns of Help-Seeking among African American Women - Vicki M Mays, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell and James S Jackson The Police - Patricia A Washington A Reluctant Social Service Agency in the African American Community Changes in African American Resources and Mental Health - James S Jackson and Harold W Neighbors 1979 to 1992
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