Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health
Finding Truths — Creating Change
By Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Elsabeth Jensen
Description
Some say mental illness is the last great stigma remaining in our communities. This book is a collection of twenty articles written by researchers, scholars, practitioners of nursing, social work, and community health, and survivors of mental illness and homelessness. Each piece speaks to a specific aspect of the linkages among housing/homelessness, poverty, and mental illness, interconnections that are complex and challenging to understand but essential to our addressing the problems.
Chapters include:
- The soul-destroying search for adequate housing for family members who are mental health survivors
- The impact of de-institutionalization in and the gaps left in services for mental health survivors
- Myths of mental illness and how they affect the popular stigma attached to survivors
Details
Number of Pages
325
Dimensions
17.15 " x 24.77”
Print ISBN
9781551303901
Subjects
“This book is a tribute to psychiatric survivors who stood with us when we declared homelessness a national disaster in 1998. The authors have captured the ongoing results in a country still left without a national housing program; people left struggling to survive in the aptly named “tornado.” Surely this book is proof we need safe, affordable housing to achieve health.”
Cathy Crowe, street nurse, author of Dying for a Home
“I am so glad that this book has been written. The authors go beyond a traditional research focus to help identify both preventie strategies and health service interventions that can contribute to more thoughtful, respectful, and effective responses to homelessness and the needs of mental health consumer survivors.”