Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Conceptual Overview
1. Connections Between Racism and Mental Health / Castellano B. Turner and Bernard M. Kramer
2. Sexism and Women's Psychological Status / Patricia Perri Rieker and M. Kay Jankowski
3. The Decline of Public Mental Health in the United States / Elaine R. Brooks, Maria Zuñiga, and Nolan E. Penn
4. Racial, Ethnic, and Mental Illness Stereotypes: Cognitive Process and Behavioral Effects / John Townsend
Part II: Individuals and Families
5. Racism and African American Adolescent Development / James P. Comer
6. Transracial Adoptions / Joyce A. Ladner and Ruby M. Gourdine
7. Teenage Motherhood / Constance Willard Williams
Part III: Social Problems and the Community
8. Inner-City Community Mental Health: The Interplay of Abuse and Race in Chronic Mentally Ill Women / Elaine (Hilberman) Carmen
9. Lives in Jeopardy: Women and Homelessness / Ellen L. Bassuk
10. Turbulence on the College Campus and the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis / Charles Vert Willie and Jayminn Sulir Sanford
11. Stress Analogs of Racism and Sexism: Terrorism, Torture, and Disaster / Chester M. Pierce
Part IV: Teaching, Learning, Research, and Training Issues
12. Sex and Gender as Critical Variables in Psychotropic Drug Research / Jean A. Hamilton
13. Training for Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Services / Harriet P. Lefley and Evalina W. Bestman
14. Women's Mental Health: Research Agenda for the Twenty-first Century / Nancy Felipe Russo
15. A Brief History of the Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs at the National Institute of Mental Health / Bertram S. Brown and K. Patrick Okura
Notes on Contributors
Index