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"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 rangi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Evans, Stephanie Y. (Editor ), Bell, Kanika, 1976- (Editor ), Burton, Nsenga K., 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Temas:
Women > Mental health.
African American women > Mental health.
Mental health.
Women.
Black or African American > psychology
Women > psychology
Mental Health
Women
Femmes > Santé mentale.
Noires américaines > Santé mentale.
Santé mentale.
Femmes.
mental health.
women (female humans)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Mental health
African American women > Mental health
Women > Mental health
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Afterword / Diane R. Brown and Verna M. Keith.

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