Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Moreover, violence takes far too high a toll, especially among young Black men. Clearly a different approach to health education and promotion is needed to end this tragic waste of valuable human lives. Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism proposes an innovative model for health professionals working in the Black community.Traditional Western medicine focuses on sickness, the isolated individual, and the material world. However, the Afrocentric values of many Black people emphasize wellness, the community, and the spiritual world. By basing health care approaches on the community's positive values of holistic healing and mutual assistance, Health Care in the Black Community suggests practical, effective strategies for promoting physical and emotional wellness. This comprehensive and informative book offers a solid intellectual framework as well as practical advice. Health Care in the Black Community:
Health Care in the Black Community offers health care professionals-- policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and educators in the fields of social work, health care, and cultural studies--successful methods, models, and suggestions to help improve health care in Black communities.
Show moreEmpower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Moreover, violence takes far too high a toll, especially among young Black men. Clearly a different approach to health education and promotion is needed to end this tragic waste of valuable human lives. Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism proposes an innovative model for health professionals working in the Black community.Traditional Western medicine focuses on sickness, the isolated individual, and the material world. However, the Afrocentric values of many Black people emphasize wellness, the community, and the spiritual world. By basing health care approaches on the community's positive values of holistic healing and mutual assistance, Health Care in the Black Community suggests practical, effective strategies for promoting physical and emotional wellness. This comprehensive and informative book offers a solid intellectual framework as well as practical advice. Health Care in the Black Community:
Health Care in the Black Community offers health care professionals-- policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and educators in the fields of social work, health care, and cultural studies--successful methods, models, and suggestions to help improve health care in Black communities.
Show moreContents
* About the Editors
* Contributors
* Foreword
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part I. Health Care, Knowledge Building, and Consciousness
Raising from an Empowerment Perspective: Issues & Prospects
* Chapter 1. An Empowerment and Health Prevention Framework for
Understanding and Transforming the Health Care Outcomes of African
Americans
* Health Status of Blacks
* The Proposed Framework
* Community-Building Initiatives
* Conclusion
* Part II. Skill Development and Health Care Issues in the Black
Community: Empowerment Opportunities
* Chapter 2. Strengthening Black Families by Building Social
Competence
* Historical Influences
* The Adequacy Model: One Approach to Competence Development
* Summary and Conclusion
* Chapter 3. Copology: A Contemporary Model Useful for Coping with
Violence and the Related Stress in Black Families
* Introduction
* An Overview of Black Family Violence
* Traditional Helping Approaches Available to Black Families
* Copology: A Paradigm Shift in Addressing the Issue of Violence in
Black Families
* Summary
* Conclusion
* Chapter 4. Early Parenthood Among African Americans: Support and
Personal Growth Strategies
* Introduction: Current Status of Early Pregnancy and
Parenthood
* Consequences/Barriers of Early Parenthood
* Summary and Conclusion
* Chapter 5. Promoting Health Prevention Programs and Medical
Compliance: An Expanded Conceptual Model
* Overview of the Compliance Problem
* Are We Missing the Mark?
* A Conceptual Model to Increase Medical Compliance and promote
Health Prevention Programs
* Summary and Conclusion
* Chapter 6. The Impact of Infertility in the Black Community
* Introduction
* Epidemiology
* Etiology
* Evaluation
* Female Factors
* Male Factors
* Other Factors
* Conclusion
* Chapter 7. The Health Care Needs of the Black Elderly: From Well
to Frail
* Introduction
* Chronic Health Profile of Black American Elders
* Collectivism and Black Health Care Practices
* Overview of Interventions with the Elderly
* Gerontological Social Work Interventive Roles
* Barriers
* Conclusion
* Part III. Self-Healing, Collectivism, and Social Action in the
Black Community: Formal and Informal Helping
* Chapter 8. African-Centered Reality Therapy: Intervention and
Prevention
* Introduction
* Purpose
* Choice Theory and African-Centered Reality Therapy
* Conclusion
* Chapter 9. Reclaiming the Inner Strength: An Expanded Perspective
for Working with Inner City Families
* Philosophical and Practice Experiences
* Holistic Healing As a Theoretical Construct
* Conclusion
* Chapter 10. Black Women and HIV/AIDS: Culturally Sensitive Family
Health Care
* Health Care Needs of African-American Women with HIV/AIDS
* Family and Gender Stressors and Supports
* ACTP: A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Working with
HIV-Positive African-American Women
* Conclusion
* Chapter 11. The Black Church Response to the Mental Health Needs
of the Elderly
* History of the African-American Church
* The Role of the Church in African-American Culture
* Conclusion
* Chapter 12. Augmenting Traditional Health Care Through Mutual
Assistance Groups for Families
* Introduction
* What Is a Mutual Assistance Group?
* Methods
* Results
* Summary
* Conclusion
* Chapter 13. African-Centered Community Building: Implications for
Political Action and System Change
* Community Practice Approaches and Health Promotion
* An African-Centered Community-Building Framework
* An Afrocentric Community-Building Health Promotion Example
* Implications for Future Practice with This Framework
* Conclusion
* Part IV. Epilogue
* Chapter 14. A View Toward the Future: Implications for
Empowerment Practice, Research, and Policy Development in the Black
Community
* Potential Opportunities and Ris
Sadye L. Logan, DSW, MSW, formerly of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, where she chaired the foundation practice sequence and co-chaired the Institute for the Study of Black Families, currently holds the I. De Quincy Newman Endowed Professor[1]ship in Social Justice at the University of South Carolina College of Social Work. Edith M. Freeman, PhD, MSW, is a professor and director of the doctoral program at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Lawrence, Kansas, where she teaches graduate practice courses in the doctoral and master's programs. She was a recipient of the first Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 1989.
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