A New Era in Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness
Jails, more and more, have become warehouses for people with mental illness. The stats sum it up: of the almost two million jail and prison inmates in the United States, almost three hundred thousand are people with serious mental illness. Twenty percent of these mentally ill inmates were homeless when they were incarcerated. Seventy-five percent o
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Most literature on mental illness and homelessness indicates that more than half of the people on the streets are mentally ill with manifestations of the following, to name a few: affective disorders; schizophrenia, in all its many variations; recurrent depressive and manic-depressive disorders (bipolarism); post-traumatic stress disorder ; borderl
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The debate regarding nonconsensual treatment centers on the issues of freedom and self-determination. In 1979, Gostin affirmed that one cannot presume that the status of a person who has been hospitalized against their will coincides with a complete loss of self-determination (8). The clinical reality suggests that residual autonomy and decisional ... See more