Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations
- 1st Edition - May 22, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Alfiee M. Breland-Noble
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 0 1 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 0 1 3 - 6
Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations summarizes research on reducing mental health disparities in underserved populations through community engage… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCommunity 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.
- 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
Researchers in clinical psychology, and practitioners working with underserved people of color
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 22, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 246
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128180129
- eBook ISBN: 9780128180136
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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 MethodsRead Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations on ScienceDirect