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"Sylvia Frumkin" Has a Baby: A Case Study for Policymakers
"Sylvia Frumkin" was a pseudonym given to a 32-year-old woman with chronic mental illness. This article presents the case of a patient who is similar to Ms. Frumkin, who is also a mother. Issues rai...
Authors: Nicholson, J.;Geller, J.L.;Fisher, W.H.;
Tags: families;advocacy and policy;mental health;serv...
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""It's important to be proud of the place you live in&quo...
Persons with severe mental illness are at risk of losing their housing, living in substandard housing, or being placed in inappropriate housing that does not satisfy their preferences. In order to un...
Authors: Forchuk, C; Nelson, G.; Hall, G.B.;
Tags: housing; mental health; supportive housing; hom...
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"Does God Still Love Me?"
"We pulled the van away and headed down the street. But we were uncomfortable. And not a little scared. Something was very, very wrong. So we turned the corner and headed back up the block. When ...
Authors: McGeady, Mary, Sr.;
Tags: children; mental health; youth;
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"The City Is My Mother": Narratives of Schizophrenia and ...
Recent narrative analysis in medical anthropology provides keys to both the personal meaning of illness and the historical, cultural, and institutional shaping of that experience. Yet Western psychiat...
Authors: Lovell, Anne M.;
Tags: mental health; experiences; perspectives; narat...
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"The Walls Were Closing In, and We Were Trapped: a Qualitative...
Semistructured interviews focusing on suicide were conducted with 80 street youth in agencies & on the streets of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, & Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Participants ...
Authors: Kidd, Sean A.; Canada; British Columbia;
Tags: youth; runaways; psychological distress; everyd...
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"Treating" A Homeless Mentally Ill Patient Who Cannot Be ...
The authors propose a system of case management where skilled mental health professionals are responsible for ensuring that homeless clients with mental illnesses receive a comprehensive range of serv...
Authors: Goldfinger, Stephen M.;
Tags: mental health;case management;treatment;
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“The Women’s War”
On the morning of Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, a 21-year-old Army specialist named Suzanne Swift went AWOL. Her unit, the 54th Military Police Company, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was two days away from leavin...
Authors: Corbett, Sara;
Tags: women;veterans;mental health;post-traumatic str...
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10 year follow up study of mortality among users of hostels for hom...
...ess people in Copenhagen, and to identify predictors of death such as conditions during upbringing, mental illness, and misuse of alcohol and drugs. Register based follow up study. Two hostels for hom...
Authors: Nordentoft, Merete ; Wandall-Holm, Nina ;
Tags: homeless people; mortality; mental health; subs...
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1933/1983 Never Again
This report to the National Governor's Association Task Force on Homeless People considers the scale of the homeless problem in America, looks at homelessness in America from a historical perspective,...
Authors: Cuomo, Mario M.;
Tags: research and evaluation;mental health;services;...
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2004 Red Book: a Summary Guide To Employment Support for Individual...
This booklet is intended to serve as a general reference source about the employment-related provisions of SSDI and SSI programs for educators, advocates, rehabilitation professionals, and counselors ...
Authors: Kertesz, Stefan;
Tags: SSI/SSDI;benefits and entitlements;mental health;
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