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Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth

Nirbhay N Singh editor Alfiee M Breland-Noble editor Cheryl S Al-Mateen editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:31st Mar '18

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This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert insights into sociocultural factors that influence mental health, the prevalence of particular disorders among African American adolescents, ethnically salient assessment and diagnostic methods, and the evidence base for specific models. The information presented in this handbook helps bring the field closer to critical goals: increasing access to treatment, preventing misdiagnosis and over hospitalization, and reducing and ending disparities in research and care.
Topics featured in this book include:

  • The epidemiology of mental disorders in African American youth. 
  • Culturally relevant diagnosis and assessment of mental illness.
  • Uses of dialectical behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy.
  • Community approaches to promoting positive mental health and psychosocial well-being. 
  • Culturally relevant psychopharmacology.
  • Future directions for the field.
The Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in child and school psychology, public health, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, family medicine, and social work.

“This book integrates a cultural perspective into interventions for African American youth, exploring various treatment modalities for specific DSM-5 mental disorders … . The book ‘is intended to help researchers, practitioners, educators, and advocates understand the needs of this population from both a culturally sensitive and culturally relevant perspective.’ … The book does a good job of focusing on mental health issues in African American children and adolescents and exploring different treatment modalities and the results of research.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2016)

ISBN: 9783319798035

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 669g

326 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016