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Heart, Brain and Mental Health Disparities for LGBTQ People of Color

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers a critical overview of research on LGBTQ PoC heart, brain, and psychological health and health disparities in America
  • Adopts a unique framework incorporating minority stress, intersectionality, and allostatic load
  • Provides resilience and strengths-based approaches to improving heart, brain, and mental health among LGBTQ People of Color

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Theoretical Frameworks for LGBTQ PoC Heart, Brain and, Mental Health Disparities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Minority Stress in the Study of LGBTQ PoC Health Disparities

      • Monique J. Williams, Dylan G. Serpas
      Pages 13-25
    3. Intersectionality, Lived Social Realities, and LGBTQ PoC Health

      • Alvin P. Akibar, Khashayar F. Langroudi
      Pages 27-39
    4. Allostatic Load and the Wear and Tear of the Body for LGBTQ PoC

      • Dylan G. Serpas, James J. García
      Pages 41-52
  3. LGBTQ PoC Heart Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Burden in LGBTQ PoC

      • James J. García, Dylan G. Serpas
      Pages 55-67
    3. Comorbid Cardiovascular Diseases and HIV in LGBTQ PoC

      • Maleeha Abbas, James J. García
      Pages 69-78
  4. LGBTQ PoC Brain Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Cerebrovascular Disease Risk Factor Burden in LGBTQ PoC

      • James J. García, Mia Kijak
      Pages 81-92
    3. HIV and Brain Health in LGBTQ PoC

      • Stephen Ramos
      Pages 93-106
  5. LGBTQ PoC Mental Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Mental Health in LGBTQ PoC

      • Maleeha Abbas, James J. García
      Pages 109-120
    3. Psychosocial Risk and Resilience Factors in LGBTQ PoC Mental Health

      • David G. Zelaya, Caleb N. Chadwick, Cirleen DeBlaere
      Pages 121-133
  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Resilience in LGBTQ PoC

      • Benjamin Aguilera, Aldo Barrita
      Pages 137-148
    3. Structural Stigma and LGBTQ PoC Health

      • Amy Prescott, Matthew Alcala, Nadine Nakamura
      Pages 149-160
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 169-170

About this book

This timely edited collection presents a holistic and biopsychosocial analysis of LGBTQ People of Color well-being, focused on heart, brain, and mental health, and employs a unique incorporation of minority stress, intersectionality, and allostatic load frameworks.

Bringing together established and emerging academics, its authors present a critical analysis of the latest research that encompasses the study of both risk and resilience factors in LGBTQ People of Color health. Across the book, they highlight the precise nature of the behavioral health disparities experienced by these communities, but further, they reveal the unique roles of intersectional discrimination and structural stigma as mechanisms for these disparities.

With chapters also dedicated to federal policies and public health, this multidisciplinary work marks a seminal contribution that will pave the way for further advances in research, theory, and practice. It offers a valuable resource on an understudied population that will appeal to researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of health psychology, public health, epidemiology, sociology, health sciences and medicine.

Reviews

“Psychological scientists and clinicians, proud to serve our racial/ethnic and LGBTQ communities, now use powerful theories and methods to advance our communities’ health. This visionary volume makes our discoveries more widely known, and frames a bold agenda for the next generation. Everyone committed to ending health disparities for LGBTQ People of Color will be empowered and excited by this book.”— Associate Professor Emeritus Richard Ruth, The George Washington University, US




“This innovative text presents current state-of-the-science research focusing on LGBTQ communities of color, and promises to inform research, theory, and practice in the important area of health inequalities. It is an essential text for those of us researching ethnic and sexual disparities in health.”
—  Professor Rusi Jaspal, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, School of Health and Community Well-Being University of La Verne, La Verne, USA

    James J. García

About the editor

James J. García is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of La Verne, USA. Dr. García is an Editorial Board Member for scientific journals in racial/ethnic LGBTQ health, sits on the board of community-based organizations and is part of the American Heart Association’s Stroke Council.



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Buying options

eBook USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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