Mental health in Black America / edited by Harold W. Neighbors, James S. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neighbors, Harold W.

Jackson, James S. (James Sidney), 1944-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Mental health.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1996]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Mental health in Black America / Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Jackson

A model-free approach to the study of subjective well-being / Carolyn Benett Murray and M. Jean Peacock

Stress and residential well-being / Gayle Y. Phillips

Problem drinking, chronic disease, and recent life events / Isidore Obot

An analysis of stress denial / Rhoda Barge Johnson and Joan E. Crowley

Marital status and mental health / Diane Brown

The association between anger-hostility and hypertension / Ernest Johnson and Larry Gant

Coping with personal problems / Clifford L. Broman

Kin and nonkin as sources of informal assistance / Robert J. Taylor, Cheryl Burns Hardison, and Linda M. Chatters

Predisposing, enabling, and need factors related to patterns of help-seeking among African American women / Cleopatra H. Caldwell

Mental health symptoms and service utilization patterns of helf-seeking among African American women / Vicki Mays, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, and James S. Jackson

The police : a reluctant social service agency in the African American communities / Patricia A. Washington

Changes in African American resources and mental health : 1979 to 1992 / James S. Jackson and Harold W. Neighbors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-239) and indexes.

ISBN:

0803935390

0803935404

OCLC:

33971549