Foreword / James P. Comer -- Introduction / Dorothy S. Ruiz -- Social and economic profile of Black Americans, 1989 / Dorothy S. Ruiz -- The mental health status of Black Americans, 1983 / Alvin F. Poussaint -- The epidemiology of mental disorder in the Black population / Harold W. Neighbors and Suzan Lumpkin -- Depression among Blacks : an epidemiologic perspective / Diane Robinson Brown -- Suicide trends of Blacks and whites by sex and age / Jacquelyne J. Jackson -- Black mental health and racial oppression / Joycelyn Landrum-Brown -- Stress, coping, and social support : their effects on Black women / Patricia J. Dunston -- Ethnic and cultural factors in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment / James L. Collins [and others]. Social factors in diagnosis and treatment / Clyde B. Mathura and Melanie A. Baer -- Understanding family violence : an Afrocentric analysis based on optimal theory / Linda James Myers -- Black-on-Black homicide : the implications for Black community mental health / Carl C. Bell -- Legal issues in mental health / Alice Gresham Bullock -- Mental health and social policy / Mary S. Harper -- Psychosocial competence : toward a theory of understanding positive mental health among Black Americans / Louis P. Anderson, Chuck L. Eaddy, and Ernestine A. Williams -- Coping with color : the anatomy of positive mental health / Barbara J. Shade -- Factors contributing to positive mental health among Black Americans / Anderson J. Franklin and James S. Jackson.