I. Foundations of African American Health1. The Strengths and Challenges Facing African Americans: Building Culturally Competent Practices with Communities and Families, Richard Briscoe, Gwen McClain, Teresa Nesman, Jessica Mazza, and Maxine Woodside2. Historical Trauma, Kristin N. Williams-Washington3. Beyond Tuskegee: Why African Americans Do Not Participate in Research, Peter Edmund Millet, Stacey Kevin Close, and Christon George Arthur4. Spirituality and the Power of Religion, Donelda A. Cook5. Well-Being and Resilience, Ruth Chu-lien Chao6. Evidence-Based Practice, Aminifu R. Harvey, Oliver J. Johnson, Annie McCullough-Chavis, and Tamara M. Carter7. Pharmacotherapy in African Americans, David C. Henderson8. Engaging African Americans in Outpatient Mental Health Interventions, Reginald D. Simmons and Gretchen Chase VaughnII. Health Issues for African Americans9. Obesity, M. Kathleen Figaro, Rhonda BeLue, and Bettina M. Beech10. Asthma, Michelle M. Cloutier11. Diabetes, M. Kathleen Figaro, Verla M. Vaughan, and Freida Hopkins Outlaw12. Cardiovascular Disease, Charles H. Hennekens, Wendy R. Schneider, and Robert S. Levine13. Cancer, Derrick J. Beech14. Tobacco Use, Tamika D. Gilreath, Guy-Lucien Whembolua, and Gary King15. Anxiety, Angela Neal-Barnett, Lori E. Crosby, and Bernadette Blount Salley16. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Jacquelyn Duval-Harvey and Kenneth Rogers17. Major Depressive Disorder: Meeting the Challenges of Stigma, Misdiagnosis, and Treatment Disparities, Rahn Kennedy Bailey, Holly L. Blackmon, and Francis L. Stevens18. Schizophrenia, William B. Lawson and Shana Jeanelle Gage 19. Suicide, Donna Holland Barnes20. Child Maltreatment, Brenda Jones Harden and Jamell White21. Intimate Partner Violence, Jaslean J. La Taillade, Robert L. Hampton, Marcus Pope, and April R. McDowell22. Pathways to Prison, Deborah J. Burris-KitchenEpilogue, Robert L. Hampton and Thomas P. Gullotta