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Losing Tim : How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia / Paul Gionfriddo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231168281
  • 9780231537155
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89/8
LOC classification:
  • RJ506.S3 G46 2014
  • RC514 .G56 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Tim Brings a Gun to School -- Two. Tim Gets His Start -- Three. Our Introduction to Special Education -- Four. A New School, a New Crisis -- Five. Suspended Animation -- Six. Rocketing Through Middle School -- Seven. High School Cooks Up Trouble -- Eight. West to the Northwest -- Nine. Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown -- Ten. Tim Comes to Austin -- Eleven. Americorps and the Chain of Neglect -- Twelve. Tim Begins Adult Life -- Thirteen. Tim Hits the Revolving Door -- Fourteen. Launching Tim -- Fifteen. Tim Returns to Middletown -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- References
Summary: Paul Gionfriddo's son Tim is one of the "6 percent"-an American with serious mental illness. He is also one of the half million homeless people with serious mental illnesses in desperate need of help yet underserved or ignored by our health and social-service systems.In this moving, detailed, clear-eyed exposé, Gionfriddo describes how Tim and others like him come to live on the street. Gionfriddo takes stock of the numerous injustices that kept his son from realizing his potential from the time Tim first began to show symptoms of schizophrenia to the inadequate educational supports he received growing up, his isolation from family and friends, and his frequent encounters with the juvenile justice system and, later, the adult criminal-justice system and its substandard mental health care. Tim entered adulthood with limited formal education, few work skills, and a chronic, debilitating disease that took him from the streets to jails to hospitals and then back to the streets. Losing Tim shows that people with mental illness become homeless as a result not of bad choices but of bad policy. As a former state policy maker, Gionfriddo concludes with recommendations for reforming America's ailing approach to mental health.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Tim Brings a Gun to School -- Two. Tim Gets His Start -- Three. Our Introduction to Special Education -- Four. A New School, a New Crisis -- Five. Suspended Animation -- Six. Rocketing Through Middle School -- Seven. High School Cooks Up Trouble -- Eight. West to the Northwest -- Nine. Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown -- Ten. Tim Comes to Austin -- Eleven. Americorps and the Chain of Neglect -- Twelve. Tim Begins Adult Life -- Thirteen. Tim Hits the Revolving Door -- Fourteen. Launching Tim -- Fifteen. Tim Returns to Middletown -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- References

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Paul Gionfriddo's son Tim is one of the "6 percent"-an American with serious mental illness. He is also one of the half million homeless people with serious mental illnesses in desperate need of help yet underserved or ignored by our health and social-service systems.In this moving, detailed, clear-eyed exposé, Gionfriddo describes how Tim and others like him come to live on the street. Gionfriddo takes stock of the numerous injustices that kept his son from realizing his potential from the time Tim first began to show symptoms of schizophrenia to the inadequate educational supports he received growing up, his isolation from family and friends, and his frequent encounters with the juvenile justice system and, later, the adult criminal-justice system and its substandard mental health care. Tim entered adulthood with limited formal education, few work skills, and a chronic, debilitating disease that took him from the streets to jails to hospitals and then back to the streets. Losing Tim shows that people with mental illness become homeless as a result not of bad choices but of bad policy. As a former state policy maker, Gionfriddo concludes with recommendations for reforming America's ailing approach to mental health.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)