Carol L M Caton

The Open Door

Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Open Door provides a comprehensive, carefully documented "state of the science" on homelessness and mental illness. The book reviews the effectiveness of service and housing interventions targeted at this constituency, and discusses efforts to bring evidence-based programs to scale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780190463380
• ISBN-10: 0190463384
• Artikelnr.: 47863280

Autorenporträt

Carol L.M. Caton, PhD, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at CUMC, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, is an internationally known researcher who has conducted federally funded studies of homelessness and severe mental illness, psychosis and substance use disorder, and treatment interventions for homeless people. Her work has been widely published in scientific journals and presented at professional meetings in the United States and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: The Open Door: The Mental Health System Transformed
Chapter Two: Voluntarism and the Rise of Advocacy
Chapter Three: Homeless People with Severe Mental Illness
Chapter Four: Overcoming the Problem of Disengagement from Treatment
Chapter Five: Mental Health Services Take to the Streets
Chapter Six: From the Streets to Homes
Chapter Seven: Challenges to Bringing Housing to Scale
Chapter Eight: National Initiatives to Ending Homelessness
Chapter Nine: Can Homelessness Be Prevented?
Chapter Ten: Beyond Housing: Opening the Door to Community Participation
Index