Clinical Practice

Healing Hands: Spirituality as a Clinical Tool: Care for the Homeless Mentally Ill

Of the half-million or more people in America who are homeless on any night of the year, approximately one-third have a serious mental illness.1 The proportion is even higher for people living outside shelters.2 At least half of seriously mentally ill adults who experience homelessness also have a sub- stance use disorder; schizophrenia, mood disorders […]

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Healing Hands: Operation Safety Net: Outreach to Unsheltered Homeless People

To “reach out and touch someone” who is chronically homeless requires more than a phone call, flyer or public service announcement. Successful outreach to “on-the-street” homeless people entails even more than outstationing clinicians in emergency shelters, and can extend beyond the reach of mobile medical vans. Providers of health care to unsheltered homeless people are

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Healing Hands: Breaking the Cycle of Family Homelessness Through Intensive Case Management

Dr. Peter Sherman, a pediatrician and Medical Director for the New York Children’s Health Project, sees many patients from New York City homeless shelters. We asked Dr. Sherman to share his thoughts about treating homeless children, the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. Approximately 40% of homeless people are families

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Abstract (full text available for purchase): Counting the Rural Homeless Population: Methodological Dilemmas |

One important product of this National Institute of Mental Health-funded study is the successful adaptation of methods for field research on homelessness in rural settings. This article identifies the design dilemmas and the process issues in rural studies that are applicable to social work research in rural environments. Download Research (PDF)

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Systems Alliance and Support (SAS): A Program of Intensive Case Management for Chronic Public Inebriates: Seattle

Authors: Cox GB, Meijer L, Carr DI, and Freng SA. Abstract: Systems Alliance and Support (SAS) is a long-term, intensive case management intervention suitable for severely disabled chronic alcoholics. These clients have long histories of alcohol abuse and of unsuccessful treatment for alcoholism, and for our subjects, long histories of homelessness, with a paucity of

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