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Adding Insult to Injury : (Mis)Treating Homeless Women in Our Mental Health System / Rose Ricciardelli, Laura Huey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (171 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626375666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2/0425086942 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.4.H64 H84 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Homeless Women and Mental Health -- 2 Empowered or Powerless? -- 3 Trauma and Mental Illness -- 4 Encountering the Medical Profession -- 5 Prescriptions for an “Improved Life” -- 6 The Issue of Compliance -- 7 Changing the Status Quo -- Appendix: Research Methods -- References -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Despite widespread recognition that the majority of homeless women suffer from severe mental and emotional trauma, our healthcare system has essentially left them untreated—other than to mask their symptoms with psychiatric drugs. Why? And what can be done about it? Addressing this issue, Laura Huey and Rose Ricciardelli not only present an integrated analysis of  the ways that the system is failing homeless women, but also propose a sensible alternative to the status quo.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Homeless Women and Mental Health -- 2 Empowered or Powerless? -- 3 Trauma and Mental Illness -- 4 Encountering the Medical Profession -- 5 Prescriptions for an “Improved Life” -- 6 The Issue of Compliance -- 7 Changing the Status Quo -- Appendix: Research Methods -- References -- Index -- About the Book

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Despite widespread recognition that the majority of homeless women suffer from severe mental and emotional trauma, our healthcare system has essentially left them untreated—other than to mask their symptoms with psychiatric drugs. Why? And what can be done about it? Addressing this issue, Laura Huey and Rose Ricciardelli not only present an integrated analysis of  the ways that the system is failing homeless women, but also propose a sensible alternative to the status quo.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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