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This study attempted to explore black female attitudes toward feelings of safety in the black community. In addition,'the study attempted to address the issue of fear of crime and criminal victimization, and how these factors impact black female attitudes toward safety. The subjects for this study were a sample of residents of University Apartments in Southwest Atlanta, Georgia between the ages of 12-85. The data obtained for the study was analzyed quantitatively. The simple frequency distribution for the variables was described and the mean measure of central tendency was described. The major findings of the study are as follows: (1) There is no difference of fear of crime among older people and younger people, (2) There is no difference of fear of crime for persons who have been victims of crime and those who have not.

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This study hypothesized that age of the parent, age of their children, and type of abuse would have some effect upon the parents' attendance and completion of the parenting skills classes. The groups studied were the Fall 1985 and Spring 1985 classes sponsored by Fulton County Department of Family and Children Services. Secondary analysis of existing data was used as a research method. The following descriptive statistics were used to analyze data: frequencies, tables, and percentages. The results indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in age of persons referred and age of children of persons referred in relation to attendance. In the Fall class, there was a distinct relationship drawn between attendance and types of abuse.

This study explores the severity of depression in older persons who are chronically ill. The study was an attempt to determine if there is a significant relationship between four independent variables—family support, social support, marital status, and gender. The study was conducted while respondents were hospitalized at Clayton General Hospital. The research concluded that most older chronically ill persons were not depressed or were only mildly depressed. Significant factors were gender. Females reported more incidence of depression than males and single respondents reported higher incidences of depression than married persons. Suggestions for identifying depression in older persons were indicated and implications for social work practice for working with this unique population were discussed.

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This dissertation presented Good-Enough Mentoring as a model of Black pastoral counseling for the Black male pastoral counselor working with African- American men suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). This dissertation utilized the Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut; the Black Liberation Theology of James Cone; the political cultural discussion of nihilism from Cornel West; and the Afro-centric cultural re-education modeling of Na’im Akbar to treat the intrapsychic condition described by the technical term, NPD. The operating thesis for this dissertation was African-American men could be supported into the achievement of their life goals and dreams via the empathic responsiveness of Good-Enough Mentoring. This type of supportive relationship provided intrapsychically soothing, culturally confrontive, and communally re-educative empathy. The operating assumption of the method was that comprehensive re-education between African-American men was necessary for facilitating African-American male life goal and dream accomplishment. It was assumed that this type of mentoring is better achieved with a Black male pastoral counselor. The problem addressed in this dissertation was African-American male internalization of white supremacy. This is an oppressive European American consciousness that affirms its greatness and superiority in contrast to the inferiority and wretchedness of the African and any other ethnic group. This problem corporately manifests as nihilism, depression that stereotypically predisposes African-American male character and demeanor toward certain convulsive behavior and emotional incohesion.