Service delivery for vulnerable populations : new directions in behavioral health / Steven A. Estrine [and others], editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining severe persistent mental illness : implications for knowledge, needs, and services / Denise Torres -- Innovative programs for consumers with psychiatric disabilities / Phyllis Solomon [and others] -- Children, youth, and families : needs and issues / Heidi Arthur, Susan Bowler, and Nina Rose Fisher -- Model approaches for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance : systems of care and wraparound / Nina Rose Fischer -- Sexual minority and gender-variant youth : the heterogeneity of health-care needs / Maria Messina, Sel L. Hwahng, and Anthony Vavasis -- Sexual minority and gender-variant adults : resiliencies and vulnerabilities in health care / Maria Messina and Sel L. Hwahng -- Pathways' housing first : a consumer-driven approach to ending homelessness and promoting recovery / Sam Tsemberis and Ben Henwood -- Homeless veterans : the big picture and the New York experience / Henrietta Fishman -- Housing for older Americans / Kenneth A. Knapp and Charlotte Muller -- Behavioral health issues for older adults : substance abuse and psychiatric disability / Frank Guida and Steven A. Estrine -- Elder abuse : the hidden epidemic / Nora O'Brien-Suric and Judith Estrine -- Understanding the refugee experience of trauma / Andrea K. Blanch -- Innovative program approaches to refugee trauma / Andrea K. Blanch -- Intellectual and developmental disabilities / Jan L. Roth -- Disabled women and domestic violence : notes from the field / Paul Feuerstein -- Jail diversion models for people with mental illness / Charles Amrhein and Virginia Barber-Rioja -- Program evaluation with vulnerable populations / Nancy A. Hepler [and others] -- Mental health meets new media : a powerful new portal for increased access to mental health services / Jill Wolski Ordonez and Michael Cheng -- Health literacy and human services delivery / Sandra A. Smith -- Transformative impact and initiatives of the mental health consumer/survivor movement / Harvey Rosenthal -- The future of managed behavioral health care / Ann Boughtin and C. Richard Orndoff.

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"[This book] provides a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities for all of us working with vulnerable populations to develop thoughtful, workable programs. The topics presented are not limited to the severely mentally ill, but it is an encyclopedia of resources and creative options for service to veterans, the homeless, the elderly. This book challenges us to think creatively and develop programs and services for the people in our society who are most often overlooked and forgotten.". Alan E. Siegel, Ed. D. Chief, Mental Health Service, MIT. Assistant Clinical Professor of P.

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