Engaging Persons with Substance Use Disorders: Lessons from Homeless Outreach
Engaging Persons with Substance Use Disorders: Lessons from Homeless Outreach
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让患有药物滥用障碍的人参与进来:无家可归者外展活动的经验教训
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发表时间:
2004
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2.6
通讯作者:
L. Davidson
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作者:
M. Rowe;D. Fisk;J. Frey;L. Davidson
Assertive mental health outreach individuals to choose between eating at a soup kitchen and keeping an appointment emerged in the early 1980s as clinicians and researchers learned that many individwith a clinician (Dennis, Buckner, Lipton, & Levine, 1991; Koegel, 1992). uals who are homeless and have a mental illness shun community mental health cenAssertive mental health outreach (outreach) is an effective method of engaging ters for a number of reasons, including (1) the requirement of the centers that the mentally ill homeless persons into treatment and case management (Lam & Rohomeless acknowledge having a mental illness before receiving help (Segal, Bausenheck, 1999) and is associated with good client outcomes in several domains (Romohl, & Johnson, 1977), (2) the drawbacks of stigma and medication side effects that senheck, 2000). Outreach is not an inexpensive practice, however (Rosenheck, can come with treatment, and (3) the exigencies of homeless life, which may force Gallup, & Frisman, 1995; Rosenheck, 2000), since its practice spans the process of trust building, gradual engagement, and the individual’s acceptance of mental health and other social services (Swayze, Michael Rowe, Ph.D., is Associate Clinical Pro1992; Brickner, 1992; Susser, Goldfessor of Sociology in the Department of Psychifinger, & White 1990; Morse et al., 1996). atry at the Yale School of Medicine in New HaPolicy makers and researchers will conven, Connecticut. Deborah Fisk, M.S.W., is tinue to evaluate the place and worth of Clinical Director of Case Management, Conoutreach-based work in public mental necticut Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. Jennifer health care when other individuals with seFrey, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Departrious mental illness are willing to come ment of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Mediinto clinics for treatment. However, our cine. Larry Davidson, Ph.D., is Associate Profesinterest in this article is to examine two sor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. related questions. First, how can assertive Address for correspondence: Michael Rowe, mental health outreach be adapted to Ph.D., Program on Poverty, Disability, and Urwork effectively with persons who have ban Health; 205 Whitney Avenue, Suite 306; “only” substance addictions? Second, how New Haven, CT 06511. E-mail: michael. can outreach teams make a successful rowe@yale.edu.