A critical time intervention with mentally ill homeless men: Impact on psychiatric symptoms

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 135-140

  Herman, Daniel ^a   Opler, Lewis ^b   Felix, Alan ^b   Valencia, Elie ^b   Wyatt, Richard Jed ^b   Susser, Ezra ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034117289     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200003000-00002     Document Type: Article

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