Chapter 29: Recommendations

The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health has critically illuminated distinct areas within the black community, which indiscriminately affects the mental health of people of colour of all ages, and across the family life cycle. The contributions of black women, and women of colour clinicians and professionals within this Handbook, include not only contributions to scholarship, but incorporate narratives associated with the emotional and physical costs to women working in the mental health and education profession. The levels of stress and how it is manifested is far reaching for black women. Working and non-working women of colour continue to be at high risk for developing physiological symptoms such as strokes, the re-occurrence of breast cancer, heart disease, hypertension known as high blood pressure, heart attacks, and death in birth. While the recommendations provided below are for the UK, the topics covered in the examples will be relevant to a global audience.