ABOUT THIS BOOK

The essays in this volume discuss racism and sexism as they affect mental health. In particular, they focus on training, diagnosis, treatment, and research, emphasizing the power relationships between individuals and groups that cause unequal access to mental health care. They offer perspectives on issues and their distinct effects on mental health: interracial adoptions, teenage motherhood, gender bias in mental health diagnosis and therapy, prisons used as substitutes for hospitals, homeless families, and increasing violence- in the home, on college campuses, and in the streets.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Charles V. Willie is Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University.

Patricia Perri Rieker is associate professor of psychiatry (sociology) at Harvard University.

Bernard M. Kramer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology (CLA) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Bertram S. Brown is former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

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