1. Residential instability: A perspective on system imbalance
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Lawrence Appleby and Prakash N. Desai
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Adult ,Male ,Social Alienation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Residential instability ,Population Dynamics ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,Psychiatry ,Chicago ,Recidivism ,business.industry ,Mental Disorders ,Perspective (graphical) ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,Hospitalization ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Chronic Disease ,Ill-Housed Persons ,Female ,Psychology (miscellaneous) ,High incidence ,business - Abstract
In an exploration of residential instability and recidivism in chronic mental patients, 215 psychiatric admissions were followed for a year after the initial episode. In addition to an unusually high incidence of residential mobility, a relationship between mobility and number of hospitalizations was evident, as were isolation, disruptive family situations, and homelessness. The needed response of the mental health system is discussed.
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- 1987
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