Foreword - Gerald Gurin Mental Health in Black America - Harold W Neighbors and James S Jackson Psychosocial Problems and Help-Seeking Behavior A Model-Free Approach to the Study of Subjective Well-Being - Carolyn B Murray and M Jean Peacock Stress and Residential Well-Being - Gayle Y Phillips Problem Drinking, Chronic Disease and Recent Life Events - Isidore Silas Obot An Analysis of Stress Denial - Rhoda E Barge Johnson and Joan E Crowley Marital Status and Mental Health - Diane R Brown The Association between Anger-Hostility and Hypertension - Ernest H Johnson and Larry M Gant Coping with Personal Problems - Clifford L Broman Kin and Nonkin as Sources of Informal Assistance - Robert Joseph Taylor, Cheryl Burns Hardison and Linda M Chatters Predisposing, Enabling and Need Factors Related to Patterns of Help-Seeking among African American Women - Cleopatra Howard Caldwell Mental Health Symptoms and Service Utilization Patterns of Help-Seeking among African American Women - Vicki M Mays, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell and James S Jackson The Police - Patricia A Washington A Reluctant Social Service Agency in the African American Community Changes in African American Resources and Mental Health - James S Jackson and Harold W Neighbors 1979 to 1992