"Black men need hope to survive and, ultimately, flourish. As mental health is a critical but often neglected issue, especially among Black men, Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men examines that sensitive topic in conjunction with reflections on race, gender, sexuality, and class to offer a hopeful and constructive framework for care and counseling, particularly for Black men. These are not separate from spiritual health and growth, as well, but both are integral to holistic, dynamic wellbeing. In this, the author provides a careful and critical analysis of spiritual hope and healing as ingredient to individual and communal flourishing. As such, this volume will be a vital resource for health practitioners, spiritual caregivers, and providers in community care who serve to bolster the mental wellbeing of Black men." -- As mental health is a critical but often neglected issue, especially among Black men, this book examines that sensitive topic in conjunction with reflections on race, gender, sexuality, and class to offer a hopeful and constructive framework for care and counseling and to point the way forward to integrating mental and spiritual health. -- Provided by publisher. description from publisher's website.

Introduction: A prelude to keep going -- Part I: Understanding context -- Chronically dissed -- Breathing racism's, sexism's, and classism's toxic air -- The urgency for men to embody empathy and support for women -- Intertwined worlds in the mind -- Part II: A hope to keep going framework for care and counseling. Spiritual hope -- A hope to keep going model of change: activating communal agency to care for black men -- A hope to keep going model of change: activating creative and constructive agency in black men -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Vignettes -- Appendix B: Individual interview questions -- Appendix C: Research participants.