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Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations

  • 1st Edition - May 22, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Alfiee M. Breland-Noble
  • Language: English

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations summarizes research on reducing mental health disparities in underserved populations through community engage… Read more

Description

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations summarizes research on reducing mental health disparities in underserved populations through community engagement programs. It discusses the efficacy of such programs with specific populations of people of color and cultures, for specific disorders, and via specific communities. It identifies how and why community engagement works with these populations, how best to set up new community programs, the steps and stakeholders to success, and includes case studies showing successes and the challenges involved.

Key features

  • Identifies how and why these programs achieve success through patient engagement
  • Explores efficacy with specific ethnicities and cultures
  • Discusses efficacy of programs through schools, churches, non-profits, and more
  • Includes case studies with their successes and challenges
  • Provides guidelines on the development and implementation of community programs

Readership

Researchers in clinical psychology, and practitioners working with underserved people of color

Table of contents

1. Introduction
Alfiee M. Breland-Noble

2. Addressing Latinx mental healthcare disparities with community engagement
Juan Ignacio Prandoni, Monica Perez Jolles and Gabriela Livas Stein

3. Engaging parents to promote mental health among Chinese American youth
Cixin Wang, Jia Li Liu, Kieu Anh Do, Xiaoping Shao and Huixing Lu

4. Community-engaged research to address mental health disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native populations
Amy E. West, Angela L. Walden, Forrest Bruce, Melissa L. Walls, Michelle Sarche, Doris Isham, Julie Yaekel-Black Elk and Nancy Whitesell

5. Faith-based mental health promotion: strategic partnership development of a Black faith community-academic pilot project
Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, Michele Wong, Camelia A. Harb, Jessica Jackson, Mary Carter-Williams and Cindy Harding

6. Arab American youth: considerations for mental health and community engagement
Hanan Hashem, Ashley Bennett and Germine H. Awad

7. Engaging diverse patients, families, and communities as partners in community mental health disparities research: lessons learned from inclusion of Mexican immigrants in the Central New Jersey Partnership to Improve Perinatal Depression Care
Jeanette Valentine, PhD, Mary O’Dowd, MPH, Rebecca Temkin, Teresa Vivar, Katherine Schertz, Charlotte Feeney, MSN, Mariela Flores, Maria Vivar and Gloria Bachmann, MD
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8. Patient and community engagement for mental health disparities in Latinx youth immigrant populations: the Fuerte program
William Martinez, Divya Chhabra, Peter Cooch, Heyman Oo, Holly Vo, Angelina Romano, Farahnaz Farahmand, Maximilian Rocha, Rob´an San Miguel, Marisol Romero, Alex Quintanilla and Ryan Matlow

Review quotes

"This book is useful for academics, practitioners, researchers, community activists, and mental health workers in various fields. Similar books regarding health disparities such as Patient-Centered Clinical Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes, Hall (Springer, 2020) are identified. However, this book is written from a scholarly-clinical perspective and more useful to academics or researchers seeking to improve upon access and quality of mental health services for people of color."—© Doody’s Review Service, 2021, Rachel S Simmons, PhD, reviewer, expert opinion

"This book is useful for academics, practitioners, researchers, community activists, and mental health workers in various fields. Similar books regarding health disparities such as Patient-Centered Clinical Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes, Hall (Springer, 2020) are identified. However, this book is written from a scholarly-clinical perspective and more useful to academics or researchers seeking to improve upon access and quality of mental health services for people of color." —Doody

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 22, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Alfiee M. Breland-Noble

Dr. Alfiee M. Breland-Noble is an internationally recognized scientist, author, media personality and speaker. With a primary focus on teens, college students, families and communities of color, she is recognized for her remarkable ability to motivate and inspire by translating complex scientific concepts (developed via her 20+ years of research leadership in Research 1 institutions) into everyday language. As Founder and Board President of the AAKOMA Project, Inc. (initially an academic psychiatry research lab; now a 501©(3) nonprofit), Dr. Breland-Noble and her team have built a research enterprise founded on the science of adolescent and community engagement. She was part of the senior leadership team with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and the Congressional Black Caucus on the report Ring the Alarm and the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act of 2019. Her academic publications and presentations reflect her commitment to a culturally relevant, patient centered approach to reducing mental health disparities. Her research interests include increasing mental health treatment use by African American youth, youth of color, families and communities, suicide prevention, mental health equity and stigma reduction, depressive disorders, mental illness and improving treatments for all youth. Dr. Breland-Noble trained at Howard University, New York University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Duke University School of Medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
The AAKOMA Project, Inc. and Georgetown Medical Center Expertise: Adolescent Mental Health Disparities, Patient Centered Outcomes Research, Depressive Illness, Behavioral Clinical Trials, Patient Engagement, Community Engagement, CBPR, Mixed Methods

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