Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Summary and recommendations. Section I: The Context of Treatment. What we know about homelessness among mentally ill persons: an analytical review and commentary. Deinstitutionalization in the nineties. Homelessness and mental illness: a transcultural family perspective. Mental health problems among homeless persons: a review of epidemiological research from 1980 to 1990. Why clinicians distance themselves from the homeless mentally ill. Training mental health professionals to treat the chronically mental ill. Section II: Treatment and Rehabilitation. Clinical care of homeless mentally ill individuals: strategies and adaptations. Outreach intervention models for the homeless mentally ill. In search of pumpkin shells: residential programming for the homeless mentally ill. The need-for-treatment standard in involuntary civil commitment. Clinical case management with the homeless mentally ill. Homelessness and dual diagnosis. Medical concerns of homeless persons. Day treatment ion a shelter: a setting for assessment and treatment. Challenges and opportunity: rehabilitating the homeless mentally ill. Appendix. Index.

About the Author

H. Richard Lamb, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California.

Leona L. Bachrach, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Psychiatry in the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Frederic I. Kass, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.

Reviews

Treating the Homeless Mentally Ill informs the reader of current practice among mental health professionals in meeting a visible and persistent need.