Clinical Practice

Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness

Homeless people with cognitive impairments affecting thought, memory, speech, and/or psychosocial competence present some of the toughest challenges that clinicians face. Indeed, too many choose to avoid these difficult clients altogether — an option that experienced homeless assistance providers find unacceptable. The following articles describe the complex tapestry of cognitive disabilities and homelessness, and specify […]

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Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness

Homeless people with cognitive impairments affecting thought, memory, speech, and/or psychosocial competence present some of the toughest challenges that clinicians face. Indeed, too many choose to avoid these difficult clients altogether — an option that experienced homeless assistance providers find unacceptable. The following articles describe the complex tapestry of cognitive disabilities and homelessness, and specify

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Health care at the crossroads: Strategies for creating and sustaining community-wide emergency preparedness systems

Prepared by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the purpose of this report is to frame the issues that must be addressed in developing community-wide preparedness and to delineate federal and state responsibilities for eliminating barriers and for facilitating and sustaining—through leadership, funding and other resource deployment—community-based emergency preparedness across the United States.

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Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Physical Impairments and Homelessness

The included articles sketch the etiology and scope of physically disabling conditions frequently seen in people who are homeless, specify major obstacles they encounter, suggest what HCH providers can do to prevent or remove these barriers, and highlight special sensitivities that clinicians need to serve clients with disabilities effectively. Download Research (PDF)

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Substance Abuse Treatment: What works for Homeless Individuals? A Review of the Literature

In substance abuse treatment, a gap exists between scientific research and clinical practice that is not common to other fields of medicine. This gap between research and practice is a concern shared in the Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) field as well, a concern which led to the formation of the “Translating Research Into

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Healing Hands: Crossing to Safety: Transgender Health and Homelessness

Persons who identify with a gender that differs from the sex assigned to them at birth are at high risk for social isolation, physical and emotional trauma, chemical dependency, infectious disease, and discrimination limiting their access to employment, housing, and health care. Homelessness compounds these risks. The following articles were written to enhance understanding of

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