John L Young

Biographic Data

ID6654162
NAMEJohn L Young
GIVEN NAMESJohn L
FAMILY NAMEYoung
SIGNATUREYOUNG J L
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Clinicians' Need for an Ecological Approach to Violence Reduction

    Open AccessBandy X Lee, John L YoungARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2018

    We now know that harmful social policies, such as those that deny health care to some people, can generate structural violence and be far more harmful than any type of direct violence. A health professional who engages in public health promotion must thus consider the adverse effects of structural violence generated by bad policies. On this view, the dictum, "first, do no harm," can be interpreted as a mandate to protect patients from injustice. …

  • Therapeutic dimensions of sacred garments worn by the Barbados Spiritual Baptists

    Ezra E H Griffith, John L YoungARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2014

    As part of a broader observational study, 25 members of a Barbados Spiritual Baptist congregation and its Patriarch, along with 13 nonmembers of the church, took part in formal semi-structured interviews, in addition to informal conversations with many others. The purpose was to elicit detailed qualitative impressions of their experiences related to the evolving use of sacred garments within the rituals of the church. Over the 55 years of its dev…

  • Barbados Spiritual Baptists

    Ezra E H Griffith, George E Mahy et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2008

    The Spiritual Baptist faith has been present in the Caribbean from about the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. However, the movement only extended to Barbados in 1957 when a Spiritual Baptist preacher, a Barbadian by birth, returned to his native island from Trinidad, where he had been living for several years. The Reverend Granville Williams established the first Spiritual Baptist Church in Barbados and has continued to oversee the chu…

  • The Integral Role of Pastoral Counseling by African-American Clergy in Community Mental Health

    John L Young, Ezra E H Griffith et al.ARTICLEPsychiatric Services2003

    OBJECTIVE: Little is currently known about the pastoral counseling work of pastors of African-American churches. The authors interviewed the pastors of nearly all African-American churches in a metropolitan area about their pastoral counseling work and related aspects of their ministry. METHODS: Of 121 African-American pastors identified, 99 completed a semistructured interview describing their backgrounds, attitudes, concerns, and work. The inte…

  • Structure and provision of services in Black churches in New Haven, Connecticut

    David R Williams, Ezra E H Griffith et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…1999Cited by: 9

    Historically, Black (or African American) churches have played a central role as a center of religious and political life and also as a provider of human services and a healing community. This article examined the extent to which African American churches in 1 Northeastern urban environment are involved in the delivery of health and human service programs to their communities. It also explored how comfortable Black clergy are in referring their p…

  • Structure and provision of services in Black churches in New Haven, Connecticut

    Ezra E H Griffith, John L Young et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…1999