Black Women's Mental Health Balancing Strength and Vulnerability
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Stephanie Y. Evans - Editor Kanika Bell - Editor Nsenga K. Burton - Editor Linda Goler Blount - Foreword by
Price: $85.00 Hardcover - 324 pages
Release Date: July 2017
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-4384-6581-4
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Summary
Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.
This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women.
“…this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University. She is the author of Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment and the coeditor (with Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller) of African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research, both also published by SUNY Press. Kanika Bell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University. She is also a licensed psychologist and owner of A.T.L. Psychotherapy & Consulting Services. Nsenga K. Burton is Digital Editor of Grady Newsource at the University of Georgia, where she also teaches news writing and multiplatform production. She is the editor of The Burton Wire.
Table of Contents
Foreword Linda Goler Blount, President of Black Women’s Health Imperative
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Learning to BREATHE: Toward a Balanced Model of Black Women’s Wellness Stephanie Y. Evans, Kanika Bell, and Nsenga K. Burton
Part I: Balancing Vulnerability
Sisters on Sisters: Inner Peace from the Black Woman Mental Health Professional Perspective Kanika Bell
When the Bough Breaks: The StrongBlackWoman and the Embodiment of Stress Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Representations of Black Women’s Mental Illness in HTGAWM and Being Mary Jane Nsenga K. Burton
Selfies, Subtweets, & Suicide: Social Media as Mediator and Agitator of Mental Health for Black Women Joy Harden Bradford
Part II: Balancing Strength
From Worthless to Wellness: Self-Worth, Power, and Creative Survival in Memoirs of Sexual Assault Stephanie Y. Evans
The Travel Diaries: Excursions for Balance, Reflection, Healing, and Empowerment Kami J. Anderson
My Body Is a Vehicle: Narratives of Black Women Holistic Leaders on Spiritual Development, Mental Healing, and Body Nurturing Rachel Panton
Black Women’s Sexuality and Relationships: Embracing Self-Love through BREATHE-ing Qiana M. Cutts
African American Mothers’ Parenting in the Midst of Violence and Fear: Finding Meaning and Transcendence Ruby Mendenhall, Loren Henderson, and Barbara M. Scott
Part III: Strategies for Balance
Black Feminist Therapy as a Wellness Tool Lani V. Jones and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Looking Through the Window: Black Women’s Perspectives on Mental Health and Self-Care Maudry-Beverley Lashley, Vanessa Marshall, and TyWanda McLaurin-Jones
Don’t Go Back to Sleep: Increasing Well-Being through Contemplative Practice Veta Goler
Love Lessons: Black Women Teaching Black Girls to Love Alero Afejuku, Sheila Flemming-Hunter, and Ayo Gathing
Transformative Mental Health for African American Women: Health Policy Considerations Daniel E. Dawes and Keisha Braithwaite Holden
