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NOPCAS recommended readings
Author: a bibliograpghy of books
Originally Published In , August 2005   DOWNLOAD PDF



Reading Recommendations:

African Americans and Mental Health:

African American Mental Health (1998) by Reginald L. Jones 

Saving Our Last Nerve: The African American Woman's Path 
to Mental Health (2004) by Marilyn, MD Martin, Mark B. 
Moss 

Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental 
Health Crisis among African-Americans (2000) by Alvin F. 
Poussaint & Amy Alexander

Contemporary Mental Health Issues Among African Americans 
(2004) by Debra A. Harley and John Milton Dillard 

Mental health issues for young African-American males: 
Clinical, social and cultural perspectives (1994) by 
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs


Misdiagnosis of African American Clients: Racial and 
Ethnic Bias in Mental Health Treatment (2005) by Lynn , L. 
Nickens 


In and Out of Our Right Minds : The Mental Health of 
African American Women (2003) by Diane Brown, Verna Keith 


Counseling in African-American Communities (2002) by 
Sabrina Black et al

Journey From Madness to Serenity (2000) by Vanessa Sawyer

Raising our African American Teenage Sons (2000) by Nancy 
Boyd-Franklin and A.J. Franklin

The African American Woman?s Guide to a Healthy Heart 
(2004) by Anne Taylor

Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming 
Depression in Black Men (2004) by John Head

Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir (2004) by Janis F. Kearney




African American and Suicide:

Lay My Burden Down : Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis 
Among African-Americans (2000) by Alvin F. Poussaint

Suicide in African Americans by David Lester

Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community 
(Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) 
(1992) by Kevin E. Early

African American and Death and Dying

Death and Dying Among African-American's: Cultural 
Characteristics and Coping Tidbits (2001) by James H.Carter

African-American Grief (Death, Dying and Bereavement) 
(2005)by Paul C. Rosenblatt, BEVERLY R. WALLACE

The American Book of Dying: Lessons In Healing Spiritual 
Pain by Richard Groves, Henriette Anne Klauser

Reclaiming Black resources for dealing with death and 
dying in the Black church (1981)by Julia Brogdon


Lead Me Home: An African-American's Guide Through The 
Grief Journey (1999) by Carleen Brice

Dying to Live (2005) by Anwar S. Richardson

African American Bereavement

African-American Grief (Death, Dying and Bereavement) 
(2005) by Paul C. Rosenblatt, BEVERLY R. WALLACE

African American Daughters and Elderly Mothers: Examining 
Experiences of Grief, Loss, and Bereavement (Garland 
Studies on the Elderly in America) (1998) by Sharon Hines 
Smith

Lead Me Home: An African-American's Guide Through The 
Grief Journey (1999) by Carleen Brice

The End Is Just the Beginning: Lessons in Grieving for 
African Americans (2003) by Arlene H. Churn

Passed on: African American Mourning Stories a Memorial 
(2002) by Karla F. C. Holloway


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