HEALTH CARE

Mental Health Illness and Homelessness

Mental Health Illness and Homelessness

Introduction

Research in the field of homelessness, mental illness presents data inconclusive when it comes to whether mental illness and addiction lead to homelessness or whether the opposite that leads to homelessness and mental illness. One thing is clear from history, that mental illness puts people at greater risk of homelessness. In addition, it is true that homeless people suffer from stress and anxiety and are much more likely to be attacked which leads to mental health as a means adaptation.

The homeless are likely to live a great distress psychological and scientific literature reports a high prevalence of mental disorders in this population. However, the relevance of the tools ontological used both in research and in practice with clientele also the disadvantaged and marginalized. Mental disorders in the street must be a further consideration and the very validity of diagnostic tics attributed to the homeless should be questioned. The clinic must also take greater account of the consequences of poverty and exclusion. (Robertson, 1999)

Discussion and Analysis

Mental health is the capacity of each and all of us to feel, think and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and deal with the challenges we face. It is a positive sense of emotional and spiritual well-being that respects the importance of culture, equity, social justice, interconnections and personal dignity. In U.S it is often attributed that the increase in homeless people with mental illness to the closure of psychiatric hospitals. However, the biggest increase occurred in the 1990s when several provinces had rates fall on welfare and had limited investment in social housing. At the time, there was also less money available for health and social services. (Burt, 1999)

Targeted populations frequency, prevalence and mortality of mental illness and homelessness

The prevalence of mental illness from three large samples of homeless people, it is observed that it is not psychotic disorders which are rising, they remain at levels comparable but it is rather the mental health problems who are not treated by prolonged hospitalization (depression, anxiety) that are growing. Thus, there are less homeless women with London than in studies of the 1980s. In a study in Ohio with a sample of 979 homeless subjects, only 31% of people could inherit a psychiatric diagnosis cudgel and it is estimated that only 5% needed assistance in institution Psychiatric (Snow et al. 1986: 408).

Similarly, with homelessness in US gets results much smaller than which was reported in the 1970s: only 25% of the subjects of identifiable mental health problems. A total of 2,285 people who are homeless and living with a mental illness will participate in the study. Of these, 1,325 participants in the research project will be given a place to live and offered a range of housing, health and social support services over the course of the research initiative. (Burt, 2001)

International data on the mortality of homeless people are rare and uneven quality. The first serious study was conducted in Sweden between ...