presents the clinician's view of homelessness and related mental health issues based on the experiences of a mental health outreach team (the "team"), which operates in the shelters, the meal programs, and the jail of a high-density homeless area in a coastal suburb of Los Angeles County....
Find community support resources in California. Access mental health resources, community services, and more.
However, people experiencing homelessness may be much more visible in public spaces to a degree that outpaces the growth in overall numbers, experts told ABC News. This is due to a combination of factors, including a rising number of people who are homeless ...
Youth homelessness is a growing concern in the United States. Despite difficulties studying this population due to inconsistent definitions of what it means to be a youth and homeless, the current body of research indicates that abuse, family breakdown, and disruptive family relationships are common ...
That Mr Newsom and Mr Adams are rethinking involuntary treatment reflects the failures of America’s mental-health system, but also their recognition that homelessness represents a political problem for their administrations—and their careers. As unsheltered homelessness has grown, Americans have becom...
Estimating the prevalence of alcohol, drug and mental health problems in the contemporary homeless population: A review of the literature This study tested whether social affiliation was associated with exits from homelessness for a county-wide probability sample of 397 homeless adults who were followed...
(WHO) Director of Health Emergencies asserted, “I think [mental health] has been a hugely under-recognized and under-responded-to element of this pandemic, as it is in all health emergencies.”[1]He went on to add that “we’ve seen the terrible toll taken on mental health and ...
This pattern can be due to emotional distress that interferes with self-management of one’s health or the socio-environmental consequences of a mental health disorder, such as poverty or homelessness, that make engagement in routine care for a chronic condition more difficult. In turn, HIV ...
Homelessness and health: challenges for health psychology. Homelessness can be seen as a challenge for health psychology in research and practice on several levels: analysing the risks of becoming homeless; the liv... Uwe,Flick - 《Bmj British Medical Journal》 被引量: 503发表: 2007年 Use of...
"We are showing up every day because, you know, we know that homelessness will, can result in an early death," he said. Mike, who asked to be identified only by his first name, spent the last 20 years living on Los Angeles' streets. He was a loner, surviving mostly on a dail...