Harold W. Neighbors, James S. Jackson

Mental Health in Black America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780803935402
• ISBN-10: 0803935404
• Artikelnr.: 21950715

Inhaltsangabe

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