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.
Chapter 1: Preface and Introduction: Why is there a Need for a Book like this?.- Part 1: Theoretical Frameworks for LGBT PoC Heart, Brain and, Mental Health Disparities.- Chapter 2: Minority Stress in the Study of LGBTQ PoC Health Disparities.- Chapter 3: Intersectionality, Lived Social Realities, and LGBTQ PoC Health.- Chapter 4: Allostatic Load and the Wear and Tear of the Body for LGBTQ PoC.- Part 2: LGBTQ PoC Heart Health.- Chapter 5: Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Burden in LGBTQ PoC.- Chapter 6: Comorbid Cardiovascular Diseases and HIV in LGBTQ PoC.- Part 3: LGBTQ PoC Brain Health.- Chapter 7: Cerebrovascular Diseases Risk Factor Burden in LGBTQ PoC.- Chapter 8: HIV and Brain Health in LGBTQ PoC.- Part 4: LGBTQ PoC Mental Health.- Chapter 9: Mental health in LGBTQ PoC.- Chapter 10: Psychosocial Risk and Resilience Factors in LGBTQPoC Mental Health.- Part 5: Conclusions.- Chapter 11: Resilience in LGBTQ PoC.- Chapter 12: Structural Stigma and LGBTQ PoC Health.- Chapter 13: Future Directions: Using Current Knowledge to Inform the Future of LGBTQ PoC Heart, Brain, and Mental Health Disparities.
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.
