By focusing on effective communication strategies and leveraging cutting-edge research, Mental Health Communication for Underserved Populations makes meaningful progress toward improving mental health outcomes for everyone, with a particular emphasis on underserved populations.Health communication research offers a critical lens for examining mental health, especially in relation to marginalized populations. Contributors to this volume identify and critica...

This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four sections. The first section will lead with an essay by Barnett Pearce. This will be followed by sections on (1) practical theory, (2) dialogue, and (3) social transformation. In the broadest sense, these are probably the three general themes found in the work of Pearce and his colleagues. In another sense, these categories also identify three import...