Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Mentally Ill Homeless Person
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Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Mentally Ill Homeless Person
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Overview
A case-based, clinical guide applicable to a variety of settings, this book offers evidence-based expert advice on the difficult challenges inherent in working with underserved homeless populations. The American Association of Community Psychiatrists' Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Mentally Ill Homeless Person is a concise, practical work that gives busy clinicians the information they need; it not only is more up-to-date than existing publications, but also offers case- and site-based content that provides more hands-on, practical advice. Written by clinicians, for clinicians, it offers approaches to therapy and rehabilitation from the vantage point of the treatment environment, from street to housing and everything in between.
The book reflects approaches to the clinical care of homeless people refined over two decades, building not only on the work of academic research but more importantly on the firsthand experience of clinicians. Its organization by treatment setting or specific subpopulation allows readers quick access to the chapters most relevant to their work. The first five chapters follow a sequence of naturalistic settings -- such as shelters and the work of Assertive Community Treatment Teams -- that demonstrate a model of engagement, intensive care, and ongoing rehabilitation. Subsequent chapters define specific scenarios that depict patients at various points on the engagement-rehabilitation continuum. Each chapter contains a clinical case example; guides to differential diagnosis, treatment planning, and accessing entitlements; and a flow chart for rehabilitation, including opportunities for student/resident or community involvement. The book emphasizes: • A real-world orientation that provides a nuts-and-bolts approach to such cases as families, homeless children, veterans -- even individuals in rural settings.• Cases that enable readers to follow the progress of individuals as they progress through the network of care.• The importance of Assertive Community Treatment and "housing first" models of rehabilitation.• Data supporting the importance of Critical Time Intervention, particularly with regard to homeless families.• Examples of clinical interviewing techniques for engagement and treatment of challenging individuals who are being seen in community settings. These illustrated techniques can be incorporated into educational curricula.
This is an indispensable resource for any mental health professional working with homeless populations and is also useful for medical students' clinical rotation in community psychiatric settings. Its examples of clinically engaging the homeless person are equally instructive for teaching interviewing skills to any professionals -- whether in law enforcement, social work, substance abuse treatment, or the clergy -- who encounter these forgotten members of society.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781585626670 |
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| Publisher: | American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 05/03/2007 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 197 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Paulette Marie Gillig, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
Hunter L. McQuistion, M.D., is Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Table of Contents
ContributorsAcknowledgmentsForewordChapter 1. Mental illness and homelessness: an introductionChapter 2. General concepts of outreach and engagementChapter 3. Single adults in sheltersChapter 4. Families in sheltersChapter 5. Assertive community treatmentChapter 6. HousingChapter 7. Mobile crisis teamsChapter 8. Psychiatric emergency servicesChapter 9. Psychiatric inpatient settingsChapter 10. Primary care settingsChapter 11. Homeless childrenChapter 12. Jails and prisonsChapter 13. Homeless veteransChapter 14. Rural settingsAfterwordIndex
What People are Saying About This
This guide brings together practitioners who, for the past two decades, have been addressing the needs of mentally ill homeless people. Intended for clinicians, it provides the tools for engagement, treatment, and rehabilitation in a broad array of settings. This well organized compilation of innovative and effective practices will be invaluable not only to psychiatrists, but also to policymakers and to students of public health.
Drs. Gillig and McQuiston address a growing need not previously served by a single volume. In this book, they have brought together a group of experts who cover a wide range of relevant issues. The Clinical Guide is conceptual in overview, practical in application and lucid in expression. It will be of immense value to those who work with this population.
Coming more than ten years after the publication of Treating the Homeless Mentally Ill, the Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Mentally Ill Homeless Person is a welcome compilation of the latest strategic and programmatic approaches to working successfully with these challenging individuals. The Clinical Guide is strengthened because it is truly clinical: each chapter is illustrated by one or more cases that bring the material to life, conveying the reality of the need for artful clinical engagement and programmatic persistence in helping these folks to engage in a recovery process. The Clinical Guide is quite comprehensive, as well, with chapters covering a wide variety of topics and settings.
In this book, Drs. Paulette Marie Gillig and Hunter L. McQuiston have provided an outstanding review of the most recent advances in the clinical treatment of the mentally ill homeless population of the United States.