Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth (Springer Series on Child and Family Studies)

This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert insights into sociocultural factors that influence mental health, the prevalence of particular disorders among African American adolescents, ethnically salient assessment and diagnostic methods, and the evidence base for specific models. The information presented in this handbook helps bring the field closer to critical goals: increasing access to treatment, preventing misdiagnosis and over hospitalization, and reducing and ending disparities in research and care. Topics featured in this book include: The epidemiology of mental disorders in African American youth. Culturally relevant diagnosis and assessment of mental illness. Uses of dialectical behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy. Community approaches to promoting positive mental health and psychosocial well-being. Culturally relevant psychopharmacology. Future directions for the field. The Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in child and school psychology, public health, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, family medicine, and social work. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Epidemiology of Mental Disorders in African American Children and Adolescents....Pages 3-20 Culturally Relevant Diagnosis and Assessment of Mental Illness....Pages 21-35 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Pharmacotherapy....Pages 39-61 Cognitive Behavioral Therapies....Pages 63-77 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy....Pages 79-90 Mindfulness-Based Therapies....Pages 91-105 Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization....Pages 107-120 Community Approaches to Promoting Positive Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being....Pages 121-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder....Pages 143-162 Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder....Pages 163-185 Depressive Disorders....Pages 187-199 Eating Disorders....Pages 201-212 Substance Use....Pages 213-235 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder....Pages 237-247 Schizophrenia....Pages 249-259 Learning Disabilities....Pages 261-270 Autism Spectrum Disorders....Pages 271-285 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder....Pages 287-312 Front Matter....Pages 313-313 The Way Ahead....Pages 315-319 Back Matter....Pages 321-326