Date of Conferral
5-6-2025
Date of Award
May 2025
Degree
Ph.D.
School
Counselor Education and Supervision
Advisor
Katherine Kimsey
Abstract
After reviewing the literature, Black women living in halfway housing needed more culturally accommodative and responsive access to mental health care. Despite recent efforts to improve the access and quality of mental health services for Black Americans, some of the most common barriers that continued to exist include and were not limited to the following: stigma associated with mental illness and distrust of the health care system. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand Black women’s perceptions of their mental and emotional rehabilitation while living in halfway housing. The hermeneutic phenomenology theory was most appropriate as it related to the study through use of human connection and perception. This study explored how Black women in halfway housing perceive their experiences with mental and emotional rehabilitation. According to data analysis, the following themes emerged from the interview data: (a) mental health, (b) support system, (c) rehabilitation, and (d) black women must be strong. This research consisted of four Black female participants who were living in a halfway home and semi structured interviews provided the data for the study. The results also indicate the significance of managing emotional stress such as when experiencing grief, addictive behaviors and other mental health conditions such as depression. This study promotes social change by addressing the need for increased mental health awareness and advocacy to offer transitional, grief, loss and addiction counseling service to Black women living in halfway housing.
Recommended Citation
Middleton, Eiyana, "How do African American Women in Halfway Housing Perceive their Experiences with Mental and Emotional Rehabilitation" (2025). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 17727.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/17727
