About the Book
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
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
About the Author :
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 King's University College, Western University, has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has been an invited presenter at over 200 national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops. Among his other books are Responding to the Oppression of Addiction, Workplace Wellness, and Just Say Know: A Counsellor's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs.
Review :
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
