Overview

Some say mental illness is the last great stigma remaining in our communities. This book is a collection of twenty articles written by researchers, scholars, practitioners of nursing, social work, and community health, and survivors of mental illness and homelessness. Each piece speaks to a specific aspect of the linkages among housing/homelessness, poverty, and mental illness, interconnections that are complex and challenging to understand but essential to our addressing the problems.Chapters include: * The soul-destroying search for adequate housing for family members who are mental health survivors * The impact of de-institutionalization in and the gaps left in services for mental health survivors * Myths of mental illness and how they affect the popular stigma attached to survivors

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Author:   Cheryl Forchuk ,  Dr. Rick Csiernik ,  Elsabeth Jensen
Publisher:   Brown Bear Press
Imprint:   Brown Bear Press
Weight:   0.688kg
ISBN:  

9781551303901

ISBN 10:   1551303906
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   01 June 2011
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements SECTION I. OVERVIEW 1. Creating a Process of Inquiry and Change Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, and Elsabeth Jensen 2. Methodologies Employed Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Elsabeth Jensen, and Heather Atyeo SECTION II. UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE Introduction 3. Housing, Income Support, and Mental Health: Points of Disconnection Cheryl Forchuk, Ruth Schofield, Libbey Joplin, Rick Csiernik, Carolyne Gorlick, and Katherine Turner 4. Surviving the Tornado: Mental Health Consumer-Survivor Experiences of Getting, Losing, and Keeping Housing Cheryl Forchuk, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Rick Csiernik, and Katherine Turner 5. Families Caring for Members with Mental Illness: A Vicious Cycle Catherine Ward-Griffin, Ruth Schofield, Sandra Vos, and Robin Coatsworth-Puspoky 6. De- Myth -ifying Mental Health Rick Csiernik, Cheryl Forchuk, Mark Speechley, and Catherine Ward-Griffin 7. It's Important to Be Proud of the Place You Live in : Housing Problems and Preferences of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors Cheryl Forchuk, Geoffrey Nelson, and G. Brent Hall 8. Current and Preferred Housing of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors Geoffrey Nelson, G. Brent Hall, and Cheryl Forchuk SECTION III. HOMELESSNESS AND ITS PREVENTION Introduction 9. Perceptions of Health and Health Service Utilization among Homeless and Housed Mental Health Consumer-Survivors Ruth Schofield, Cheryl Forchuk, Elsabeth Jensen, and Stephanie Brown 10. Homelessness and Health in Adolescents Amy Haldenby, Helene Berman, and Cheryl Forchuk 11. From Psychiatric Ward to the Streets and Shelters Cheryl Forchuk, Gord Russell, Shani Kingston-MacClure, Katherine Turner, and Susan Dill 12. An Intervention to Prevent Homelessness among Individuals Discharged from Psychiatric Wards to Shelters and No Fixed Address Cheryl Forchuk, Shani Kingston-MacClure, Michele Van Beers, Cheryl Smith, Rick Csiernik, Jeffrey S. Hoch, and Elsabeth Jensen 13. Using Electronic Patient Records in Mental Health Care to Capture Housing and Homelessness Information of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors Richard G. Booth SECTION IV. ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES Introduction 14. The Changing Face of Diversity in the Context of Homelessness Helen Berman, Carolyne Gorlick, Rick Csiernik, Susan L. Ray, Cheryl Forchuk, Elsabeth Jensen, and Fatmeh Al Zoubi 15. Gaining Ground, Losing Ground: The Paradoxes of Rural Homelessness Cheryl Forchuk, Phyllis Montgomery, Helene Berman, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Rick Csiernik, Carolyne Gorlick, Elsabeth Jensen, and Patrick Riesterer 16. Exploring Differences between Community-Based Women and Men with a History of Mental Illness Cheryl Forchuk, Elsabeth Jensen, Rick Csiernik, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Susan L. Ray, Phyllis Montgomery, and Linda Wan 17. Uprooted and Displaced: A Critical Narrative Study of Homeless, Aboriginal, and Newcomer Girls in Canada Helen Berman, Gloria Alvernaz Mulachy, Cheryl Forchuk, Kathy Edmunds, Amy Haldenby, and Raquel Lopez 18. Is Substance Abuse Even an Issue? Perceptions of Male and Female Community-Based Mental Health System Consumer-Survivors Rick Csiernik SECTION V. MOVING FORWARD Introduction 19. Margaret's Haven: The Story and the Process Elsabeth Jensen, Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Katherine Turner, and Pamela McKane 20. Why Should Communities Be Involved in Research? Cheryl Forchuk Appendix A: Glossary of Housing Terms Cheryl Forchuk, Pamela McKane, Jim Molineux, Ruth Shofield, and Rick Csiernik Appendix B: CURA Fact Sheets List of Contributing Authors Copyright Acknowledgments Index

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This book is a tribute to psychiatric survivors who stood with us when we declared homelessness a national disaster in 1998. The authors have captured the ongoing results in a country still left without a national housing program; people left struggling to survive in the aptly named tornado. Surely this book is proof we need safe, affordable housing to achieve health. -- Cathy Crowe, street nurse, author of Dying for a Home

Author Information

Cheryl Forchuk is Professor and Associate Director, Nursing Research, in the Labatt School of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, and Assistant Director at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Rick Csiernik, Professor of Social Work at Kingas University College (Western University), has written and edited 10 books, including Substance Use and Abuse: Everything Matters, Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Perspectives, Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health: Finding TruthsaCreating Change, and Workplace Wellness: Issues and Responses. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has been an invited presenter at 200 national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars. Elsabeth Jensen is Associate Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University.

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