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Out of sight, out of mind
- Author:
- GULLAND Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 1.9.99, 1999, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a new survey from Crisis which reveals that one in three people evicted from their homes has a mental health problem.
Risk factors for tenancy breakdown for mentally ill people
- Authors:
- SLADE Mike, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(4), August 1999, pp.361-371.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
People with mental health problems are at risk of tenancy breakdown. This study investigates the risk factors associated with a loss of tenancy. Four risk factors were identified: lack of support following a crisis; regular contact with services; lapses of housing benefit following hospital admission; and having no support other than the specialist resettlement team. The implications of these risk factors are discussed.
Homelessness and the use of acute psychiatric beds: findings from a one-day survey of adult acute and low-level secure psychiatric patients in North and South Thames regions
- Authors:
- KOFFMAN Jonathan, FULOP Naomi
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(2), March 1999, pp.140-147.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes the impact of homelessness on the use of adult acute and low-level secure psychiatric beds in North and South Thames regions. The article specifically focuses on those homeless patients who no longer required the acute psychiatric facilities in order to determine the complement of accommodation and alternative services necessary to enable them to be discharged. Concludes that homeless psychiatric in-patients have contributed to the increasingly precarious state of mental health services provision and represent a failure to provide a sufficient level of community alternatives for those who can no longer access the long-stay hospital services, and for whom the pool of acute psychiatric beds is ever reducing.
Outcome of long stay psychiatric patients resettled in the community: prospective cohort study
- Authors:
- TRIEMAN Noam, LEFF Julian, GYLES Glover
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 3.7.99, 1999, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
This research examines the outcome of psychiatric patients resettled in the community in residential settings in north London over a 5 year period. The main outcome measures include continuity and quality of residential care, readmission to hospital, mortality, crime and vagrancy. Results found that nearly 90 percent of those surviving the period were living in the community after the follow up, with crime and homelessness presenting few problems. Concludes that when carefully planned and adequately resourced , community care for long stay psychiatric patients is beneficial to most individuals and has minimal detrimental effects on society.
Cost-effectiveness of assertive community treatment for homeless persons with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- LEHMAN Anthony F., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, April 1999, pp.346-352.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Homelessness is a major public health problem among persons with severe mental illness. Evaluates the cost-effectiveness of an assertive community treatment (ACT) programme for these persons in the USA. Concludes that ACT provides a cost effective approach to reducing homelessness among persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
Mental disorder among homeless and poor people: a comparison of assessment methods
- Authors:
- BELLAVIA Charles W., TORO Paul A.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 35(1), February 1999, pp.57-67.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This American study assessed mental disorders among homeless and poor adults using four different methods: (a) history of psychiatric hospitalisation, (b) structured clinical interview, (c) self-report symptom checklist, and (d) interviewer ratings. The results suggest that the variation in rates of mental illness across existing studies is due to methodological differences and that, with the exception of the structured interview, the various methods fail to adequately distinguish mental disorder from substance abuse.
Phone home
- Author:
- SADLER Catharine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 72(2), February 1999, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
Reports on a new telephone helpline set up by the homeless charity Shelter which is designed to offer fast assistance to the thousands of people facing housing problems.
Mental health and housing: a crisis on the streets
- Author:
- GLOVER Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 21(4), 1999, pp.327-337.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article analyses whether the failures in community care can be derived from failures in the provision of housing owing to the underestimation of its role in the community care process. Asks whether community care overlooked the basic housing needs of discharged patients rendering impossible any effective benefits which could have been achieved from the community care policy and whether the law relating to housing rights failed to ensure an adequate framework for care in the community, thereby exacerbating the problems faced by released psychiatric patients.
Mental health of the statutorily homeless population: secondary analysis of the Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys
- Authors:
- SIMS Jane, VICTOR Christina R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(5), October 1999, pp.523-532.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The prevalence of neuroticism, as measured by the CIS-R, was compared across two groups: the statutorily homeless and those in private households, using data from the Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys. Homeless people, many of whom were young adults, experienced twice the rate of neurotic disorder. The raised prevalence was associated with stressful life events such as long-term illness, plus the lack of social support. Homeless people with mental health problems were more likely to be treated as in-patients rather than out-patients. Holistic management of patients facing socio-economic adversity is needed to improve psychiatric morbidity.
Homeless children: problems and needs
- Editors:
- VOSTANIS Panos, CUMELLA Stuart
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 202p.,bibliog
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines the specific problems and needs of homeless children, and draws up practical guidelines for staff and agencies on recognising and dealing with those problems. Goes on to look at policy and service development for homeless families in education, health and social care; and concludes that conventional methods of provision have to be adapted to meet the specific needs of this vulnerable group. Includes chapters on: child mental health problems; parenting issues; homeless young people; effects of changes in housing legislation; the impact of health and social services; education and the homeless child; family homelessness in the USA; and access to voluntary sector agencies.