Black mental health : patients, providers, and systems / edited by Ezra E. H. Griffith, Billy E. Jones, Altha J. Stewart.

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Association Publishing, [2019]

xxiv, 358 pages ; 23 cm

The welcome table in the workplace / Ezra E.H. Griffith -- Call to public service / Billy E. Jones -- Long journey to the top of the psychiatric ladder / Altha J. Stewart -- Bridging the gap: challenges for mental health policy, research and practice / June Jackson Christmas -- Black psychiatrists of 1969 survey the scene, then and now / Orlando B. Lightfoot and Dexter L. Fields -- Black Americans and public sector system-design strategies promoting health equity / Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon, Elizabeth Flanagan, Chyrell D. Bellamy, Ellen S. Boynton, and Larry Davidson -- African Americans and the Criminal Justice System / Richard G. Dudley Jr. -- Black international medical graduates and the care of black patients / Charles Dike -- Providing high-quality psychiatric care for black children and youth / Linda N. Freeman and Melvin Oatis -- Black women and mental health: psychosocial realities and clinical considerations / Annelle B. Primm, Donna M. Norris, and Ruth S. Shim -- Young minority fathers: harbingers of promise for their children / Derrick M. Gordon, David Friedlander, and Christine Simon -- Black elders of the Twenty-First Century / F.M. Baker -- Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identities and mental health / Kenneth B. Ashley and Lorraine E. Lothwell -- Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in African American populations / Patricia A. Newton -- Psychotherapy with African Americans and people of African descent / Anderson J. Franklin -- Biological therapies and black patients / William B. Lawson -- The black church and mental health / Sidney H. Hankerson, Eunice C. Wong, and Kenneth Polite -- Psychiatric training and black mental health / Iverson Bell Jr., Anthony P.S. Guerrero, and Jyotsna S. Ranga -- A seat at the psychiatric table: increasing the workforce presence of blacks / Frank Clark -- Addressing the mental health needs of African American youth in the new millennium: intersections and visions for the future / Racquel E. Reid -- Training in the effects of implicit racial bias on black health / Tiffany Cooke and Nzinga A. Harrison -- Historically black colleges and universities and African American psychiatry: past, present, and future / Curley L. Bonds -- The importance of "Bent Nail" research for African American populations / Carl C. Bell -- Racism and mental health: pathways, evidence, and needed research / David R. Williams and Ayesha McAdams-Mahmoud -- Toward a liberation psychiatry: contributions from the psychology of place / Mindy Thompson Fullilove -- The "new" epidemic: trauma among urban adolescents living in poverty / Nadia L. Ward, Aaron D. Haddock, Patricia Simon, and Michael J. Strambler -- Addiction, drug policy, and black clinical innovations / Helena B. Hansen and Jacquelyne F. Jackson -- Conclusion: toward a revised vision of black mental health / Billy E. Jones, Ezra E.H. Griffith, and Altha J. Stewart.

Includes bibliographical references and index.