Foreword by James P. Comer<BR>

Preface<BR>

Introduction by Dorothy S. Ruiz<BR>

Health and Social Status of Black Americans<BR>

Social and Economic Profile of Black Americans, 1989 by Dorothy S. Ruiz<BR>

The Mental Health Status of Black Americans, 1983 by Alvin F. Poussaint<BR>

Epidemiological Perspectives and Issues<BR>

The Epidemiology of Mental Disorder in the Black Population by Harold W. Neighbors and Suzan Lumpkin<BR>

Depression among Blacks: An Epidemiologic Perspective by Diane Robinson Brown<BR>

Suicide Trends of Blacks and Whites by Sex and Age, United States, 1967-1986 by Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson<BR>

Racism and Mental Health<BR>

Black Mental Health and Racial Oppression by Joycelyn Landrum-Brown<BR>

Stress, Coping, and Social Support: Their Effects on Black Women by Patricia J. Dunston<BR>

Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment<BR>

Ethnic and Cultural Factors in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment by James L. Collins, Eliot Sorel, Joseph Brent, and Clyde B. Mathura<BR>

Social Factors in Diagnosis and Treatment by Clyde B. Mathura and Melanie A. Baer<BR>

Family and Community Violence<BR>

Understanding Family Violence: An Afrocentric Analysis Based on Optimal Theory by Linda James Myers<BR>

Black-on-Black Homicide: The Implications for Black Mental Health by Carl C. Bell<BR>

Legal and Social Policy Issues<BR>

Legal Issues in Mental Health by Alice Gresham Bullock<BR>

Mental Health and Social Policy by Mary S. Harper<BR>

Positive Mental Health<BR>

Psychosocial Competence: Toward a Theory of Understanding Positive Mental Health among Black Americans by Louis P. Anderson, Chuck L. Eaddy, and Ernestine A. Williams<BR>

Coping with Color: The Anatomy of Positive Mental Health by Barbara J. Shade<BR>

Factors Contributing to Positive Mental Health in Black Americans by Anderson J. Franklin and James S. Jackson<BR>

Selected Bibliography<BR>

Index