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Book SynopsisThis is the first international handbook on Black community mental health, focussing on key issues including stereotypes in Mental health, misdiagnoses, and inequalities/discrimination around access, services and provisions. Making use of a cultural competence framework throughout, the book covers many of the classic mental health/developmental areas such as schizophrenia, mental health disorders, ASD and ADHD, but it also looks at more controversial areas in mental health, like inequalities, racism and discrimination both in practice and in graduate school training and the supervisory experiences of black students in universities. Unique among traditional academic texts addressing mental health, the book presents rich personal accounts from Black therapists and students. Many Black students who are training to become therapists or academics in mental health report negative experiences with white university staff in terms of a lack of support, encouragement, resulting in poor graduation outcomes.While institutional racism is a major issue both in society and universities, the editors of this Handbook take personal-level racism, microaggression and everyday racism as better models for understanding and analysing both these students; racialised interaction/communication experiences with white staff at university, as well as the racialised communications and inequalities in misdiagnoses, access to services and provisions in healthcare settings with white managers.
Trade ReviewThis Handbook is a landmark in our understanding of the mental health issues which challenge African-heritage populations in Europe (particularly in the UK and the Netherlands) and in North America – countries which imposed slavery on African populations. The racism which survives today is a perpetuation of the values which supported slavery: issues of labelling and victim-blaming continue, and take their toll on minority populations. The 40 activists, clinicians and scholars who contribute chapters to this handbook are well qualified and experienced in their specialist fields and bring their unique insights and knowledge on Black Community Mental Health issues to a Handbook which will be of great value for students, trainees, academics and practitioners from multidisciplinary backgrounds. The authors have also been ably guided and organised by the Handbook’s three editors (two from the US, one from the UK). Overall, there is much quality in the writing, many insights, and bases for further action. -- Dr Alice Sawyerr, FHEA, CPsychol, CSci, AFBPsS
As far as I am aware this is the first publication of its kind on the experiences and provision of services to the BME community. This in itself is something of a sad statement to make in 2020 after many years of campaigning, analysis, research and policy intervention (I know I have been involved in many of them over the years )we have yet to produce a publication specifically on the issues pertaining to BME mental health. For producing this work the editors should be congratulated. The challenges within these pages are not only for members of the BME community to read, reflect and act. This book is essential reading for any Mental Health practitioner who wishes to understand and practice in system which is beneficial to all regardless of race. -- Lord Victor O. Adebowale, CBE
Table of ContentsBlack Mental Health and the New Millennium: Historical and Current Perspective on Cultural Trauma and ‘Everyday’ Racism in White Mental Health Spaces — The Impact on the Psychological Well-being of Black Mental Health Professionals;
Richard Majors Chapter 1. Systemic Racism: Big, Black, Mad and Dangerous in the Criminal Justice System;
Sharon Walker Chapter 2. In the name of our humanity: challenging academic racism and its effects on the emotional wellbeing of women of colour professors;
Philomena Essed and Karen Carberry Chapter 3. Racial Battle Fatigue: The Long-Term Effects of Racial Microaggressions on African American Boys and Men;
William Smith, R. David and G. Stanton Chapter 4. Racism in Academia: (How to) Stay Black, Sane and Proud as the doctoral supervisory relationship implodes;
Sharon Walker Chapter 5. Implicit Provider Bias and its Implications for Black/African American Mental Health;
Andra D Rivers Johnson Chapter 6. Thirty years of Black History Month and thirty years of overrepresentation in the mental health system;
Patrick Vernon Chapter 7. Race and Risk – exploring UK social policy and the development of modern mental health;
Patricia Clarke Chapter 8. Remaining Mindful about Young People;
Mhemooda Malek and Simon Newitt Chapter 9. Cultural competencies in delivering counselling and psychotherapy services to a black multi-cultural population: time for change and action;
Nicholas Banks Chapter 10. Social and Emotional Education and Emotional Wellness: A Cultural Competence Model for Black Boys and Teachers;
Richard Majors, Llewellyn E Simmons and Corneilus Ani Chapter 11. ASD & Cultural Competence: An ASD Multi-Cultural Treatment Led Model;
Mary Henderson and Richard Majors Chapter 12. Moving Young Black Men Beyond Survival Mode: Protective Factors for Their Mental Health;
Ivan Juzang Chapter 13. African Americans and the Vocational Rehabilitation Service System in the United States: The Impact on Mental Health;
Fabricio E Balcazar and Julie Vryhof Chapter 14: Targeted Intervention in Education and the Empowerment and Emotional Well-Being of Black Boys;
Cheron Byfield and Tony Talburt Chapter 15. Towards a position of Spiritual Reflexivity as a resource: Emerging themes and issues for systemic practice, leadership and supervision within Black mental health;
Maureen Greaves Chapter 16. “Marginal Leaders”: Making Visible the Leadership Experiences of Black Women in a Therapeutic Service for Disenfranchised Young People;
Romana Farooq and Tania Rodrigues Chapter 17. 40 Years in The Wilderness: A Review of Systemic Barriers to Reducing The Over-representation of Black Men in the UK Psychiatric System;
Gail Coleman-Oluwabusola Chapter 18. Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours Among Black Boys in Schools: Techniques to Facilitate Change;
Steve Clarke Chapter 19. Black Therapists – White Families, therapists’ perceptions of cultural competence in clinical practice;
Karen Carberry and Belinda Brooks-Gordon Chapter 20. Transracial Adoption and Mental Health;
Nicholas Banks Chapter 21. Dementia and its impact on minority ethnic and migrant communities;
David Trusswell Chapter 22. Mental Health/Illness Revisited in People of African Caribbean Heritage in Britain;
Tony Leiba and Gwen Rose Chapter 23. Researching African-Caribbean Mental Health in the UK: An Assets-based Approach to developing psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia and related psychoses;
Dawn Edge, Amy Degan and Sonya Rafiq Chapter 24. ‘Lone wolf’ case study considerations of terrorist radicalisation from the black experience – impact on mental health;
Nicholas Banks Chapter 25. Spotlight on Sensory Processing Difficulties;
Lisa Prior and Tiffany Howl Chapter 26. Forced Marriage as a Representation of a Belief System in the UK and its Psychological Impact on Well-being;
Doreen Robinson and Reenee Singh Chapter 27. Systemic Family therapy with transgenerational communities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic;
Karen Carberry, Gerald Jean Lafleur and Genel Jean-Claude Chapter 28. Engaging with racialized process in clinical supervision. Political or personal;
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