Mental Health & People of Color: Curriculum Development and Change

Howard University Press, Washington, DC. 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bottom edge shelfwear. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($24.95); sun fading to spine and top edges of panels; small closed tears to panel tops. Brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 472 pp 4to. This book represents a collective effort by the four major ethnic minority groups of color to bring greater recognition to the unmet mental health needs of people of color as reflected in training and service. The impetus of this monumental undertaking was the mounting evidence that people of color receive inadequate and inappropriate mental health services at the hands of ill-trained and insensitive practitioners. Besides not tolerating cultural plurality or parity, the majority group also defines cultural differences as deviant or abnormal, by first imposing behavioral expectations and then penalizing those unable to meet such expectations. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…