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Research on Services for the Homeless Mentally ill
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This article is published in Psychiatric Services.The article was published on 1984-09-01. It has received 27 citations till now.read more
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The Effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment for Homeless Populations With Severe Mental Illness: A Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: Assertive community treatment offers significant advantages over standard case management models in reducing homelessness and symptom severity in homeless persons with severe mental illness.
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Mental health, alcohol and drug use, and criminal history among homeless adults
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed factors associated with the use of mental health services by homeless adults. But the majority had not made an outpatient mental health visit in 5 years and used alcohol and drugs the most.
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Mental health, alcohol and drug use, and criminal history among homeless adults.
TL;DR: Homeless persons who had had a previous psychiatric hospitalization were the least likely to sleep in an emergency shelter, had been homeless nearly twice as long as the rest of the sample, had the worst mental health status, used alcohol and drugs the most, and were the most involved in criminal activities.
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Does Race Matter in Addressing Homelessness? A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: This literature points to substantial differences between racial subgroups of the U.S. homeless population in vulnerabilities, health risks, behaviors, and service outcomes, and suggests that policies and programs to prevent and end homelessness must explicitly consider race as a factor in order to be of maximum effectiveness.
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more than passing strange: homelessness and mental illness in New York City
TL;DR: This paper argued that individual failures to secure stable housing have their roots in larger developments in housing, employment, household composition, and government assistance programs, and that the circumstances under which psychiatric disability is converted into social dispossession need to be examined.
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Overview: model programs for chronic mental patients.
TL;DR: Although successful model programs share certain common structural elements, such programs cannot be readily reproduced or generalized and are best seen as experimental efforts, not as solutions for the problems of service delivery in mental health systems.