Surviving the tornado of mental illness: Psychiatric survivors' experiences of getting, losing, and keeping housing

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 558-562

  Forchuk, Cheryl ^a   Ward Griffin, Catherine ^a   Csiernik, Rick ^b   Turner, Katherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c INDUSTRY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; FEAR; GROUP DYNAMICS; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INCOME; MENTAL DISEASE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33645669852     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.4.558     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Koegel P, Burman MA, Baumohl J: The causes of homelessness, in Homelessness in America. Edited by Baumohl J. Phoenix, Ariz, Oryx, 1996
2. Drake RE, Wallach MA: Homelessness and mental illness: a story of failure. Psychiatric Services 50:589, 1999
3. Robertson M: The prevalence of mental disorder among homeless people, in Homelessness: A Prevention-Oriented Approach. Edited by Jahiel R. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
4. Evaluating Housing Stability for People With Serious Mental Illness at Risk for Homelessness: Final Report. Prepared for the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Community Support and Research Unit, 2001
5. Peace R, Kell S: Mental health and housing research: housing needs and sustainable independent living. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 17:101-123, 2001
6. Carling PJ: Housing and supports for persons with mental illness: emerging approaches to research and practice. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:439-449, 1993
7. Tsemberis S, Eisenberg RF: Pathways to housing: supported housing for street-dwelling homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatric Services 51:487-493, 2000
8. Chilvers R, Macdonald GM, Hayes AA: Supported housing for people with severe mental disorders. Cochrane Review 2, 2004
9. O'Malley L, Croucher K: Supported Housing Services or People With Mental Health Problems: Evidence of Good Practice? Toronto, Ontario, University of York, Centre for Housing Policy, 2003
10. Leininger MM: Importance and uses of ethnomethods: ethnography and ethnonursing research. Recent Advances in Nursing 17:12-36, 1987