Identity Orchestration demonstrates the particular importance of identity balance in behavioral health. The contributors to this collection deeply engage with identity and psychological strength by examining race, gender, class, and context through stories, highlighting the asset- and story-based constructs of identity.

Scholarly research and depictions within popular culture present black males largely on the basis of their being caricatures_ entities that extend not far beyond stereotypical celluloid, televised explanations, print articles, and selective hip-hop commentary. Even within institutions and among individuals that are assumed to have the best interest of the black male at center, there is often an inability to consider them past a faux orbit of one-dimensionality. Balance is unique in that it approaches Black males from a well-rooted personality perspective within context and utilizes discourse analysis in attempts at advancing identity theory.