What the blues is all about : Black women overcoming stress and depression / Angela Mitchell with Kennise Herring, Ph.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Angela.

Herring, Kennise, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression, Mental--Popular works.

Depression, Mental.

African American women--Mental health.

African American women.

Depression in women.

Genre:

Popular works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 238 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by The Berkeley Publishing Group, 1998.

Summary:

The first book to take a comprehensive look at depression among African-American women, "What the Blues Is All About" "offers resources and insights to empower (black women) to be more enlightened, informed, and better equipped to cope" (Debrena Jackson Gandy, author of "Sacred Pampering Principles").

Contents:

Part I: What is Depression? Introduction: Tellin' it like it is: seven black women and their stories of depression. What's goin' on? Defining depression in black women

Part II: Stress and Depression in Black Women. The mule of the world and other myths: how stereotypes of black women contribute to depression. Living in the integration generation: race, stress, and depression. Love don't love nobody: self-esteem, relationships, and depression. Ain't nobody's business: family secrets, shame, and depression. Lay my burden down: black women and suicide

Part III: Treatment, Self-Help, and Prevention. What causes depression? There is a balm in Gilead: finding treatment for depression. The talking cure: psychotherapy for depression. Drug therapies and other treatments for depression: the new frontier? Sisters doin' it for themselves: self-help and prevention. Soul serenade: spirituality and depression.

Notes:

"A Perigee book."

"First edition: January 1998."

"Book design by Victoria Hartman. Cover design by Charles Björklund. Cover painting by Leonard Jenkins."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0399523766

9780399523762

OCLC:

37187467