TY  - GEN
N2  - Community integration has been a central goal of mental health service policy since deinstitutionalization began in the 1950s, as homelessness increased in the 1980s, and as housing programs for homeless mentally ill persons developed in the 1990s. In 1990, an innovative experiment-the Boston McKinney Project-began to test alternative housing policies. Schutt's comprehensive analysis of the project's findings calls into question current housing policies that support the preference of most homeless mentally ill persons to live alone in independent apartments. Indeed, Homelessness, Housing and Mental Illness shows that living alone reduces housing retention and cognitive functioning, thereby supporting clinicians' usual recommendation of group living. Schutt's findings challenge the assumptions behind current policy and call for reexamining housing programs for this population.
DO  - 10.4159/9780674058880
DO  - doi
AB  - Community integration has been a central goal of mental health service policy since deinstitutionalization began in the 1950s, as homelessness increased in the 1980s, and as housing programs for homeless mentally ill persons developed in the 1990s. In 1990, an innovative experiment-the Boston McKinney Project-began to test alternative housing policies. Schutt's comprehensive analysis of the project's findings calls into question current housing policies that support the preference of most homeless mentally ill persons to live alone in independent apartments. Indeed, Homelessness, Housing and Mental Illness shows that living alone reduces housing retention and cognitive functioning, thereby supporting clinicians' usual recommendation of group living. Schutt's findings challenge the assumptions behind current policy and call for reexamining housing programs for this population.
T1  - Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness /
AU  - Schutt, Russell K., 
AU  - Goldfinger, Stephen M., 
AU  - Seidman, Larry J., 
JF  - HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
JF  - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1478916
KW  - Group homes for people with mental disabilities -- United States.
KW  - Group homes for people with mental disabilities
KW  - Mentally ill homeless persons -- United States.
KW  - Mentally ill homeless persons
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.
SN  - 9780674058880
TI  - Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness /
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