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Publication Date: 1986
The authors propose a system of case management where skilled mental health professionals are responsible for ensuring that homeless clients with mental illnesses receive a comprehensive range of services, support, and treatment. They stress the importance of first offering tangible benefits like a hotel room or bus pass so that homeless clients who often mistrust mental health professionals will see case managers as providing help, not treatmen...
Publication Date: 2009
This study examined the risk-factors for falling into homelessness given the availability of housing and services provision.
We evaluate the influence of housing, services, and individual characteristics on housing loss among formerly homeless mentally ill persons who participated in a five-site (4-city) study in the U.S. Housing and service availability were manipulated within randomized experimental designs and substance abuse and other covaria...
Publication Date: 2003
The authors tested the hypotheses that neuropsychological functioning would improve after homeless persons with severe and persistent mental illness were provided with housing and that executive functioning would improve more among those placed in group homes than among those placed in independent apartments. A total of 114 persons with serious and persistent mental illness who were stable residents of homeless shelters completed neuropsychologic...