Adding Insult to Injury : : (Mis)Treating Homeless Women in Our Mental Health System / / Rose Ricciardelli, Laura Huey.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (171 p.) |
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Table of 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