Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-387) and index.

Introduction: what is deaf mental health care? / Neil S. Glickman -- Lessons learned from 23 years of a deaf psychiatric inpatient unit / Neil S. Glickman -- Deaf/hearing cross-cultural conflicts and the creation of culturally competent treatment programs / Michael John Gournaris and Alison L. Aubrecht -- Sign language dysfluency in some deaf persons: implications for interpreters and clinicians working in mental health settings / Neil S. Glickman and Charlene Crump -- Creating a culturally affirmative continuum of mental health services: the experiences of three states / Michael John Gournaris, Steve Hamerdinger, and Roger C. Williams -- Creating culturally and clinically competent deaf residential treatment programs / Neil S. Glickman and Wendy Heines -- Substance abuse treatment and recovery: adaptations to best practices when working with culturally deaf persons / Debra Guthmann and Cynthia Sternfeld -- Culturally affirmative adaptations to trauma treatment with deaf children in a residential setting / Karen Bishop -- Training of mental health professionals: yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Patrick J. Brice [and others] -- Deaf people in the criminal justice system: is a culturally affirmative response possible or desirable? / Sue O'Rourke, Neil S. Glickman, and Sally Austen -- Deaf mental health research: where we've been and where we hope to go / Neil S. Glickman and Robert Q Pollard, Jr.