Table of Contents:
  • The strengths and challenges facing African-Americans : building culturally competent practices with communities and families
  • Historical trauma
  • Beyond Tuskegee : why African-Americans do not participate in research
  • Spirituality and the power of religion
  • Well-being and resilience
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Pharmacotherapy in African Americans
  • Engaging African-Americans in outpatient mental health intervention
  • Obesity
  • Asthma
  • Diabetes
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Cancer
  • Tobacco use
  • Anxiety
  • Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
  • Major depressive disorder : meeting the challenges of stigma, misdiagnosis, and treatment disparities
  • Schizophrenia
  • Suicide
  • Child maltreatment
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Pathways to prison.