The Mentally Ill in Community-Based Sheltered Care: A Study of Community Care and Social Integration. By Steven P. Segal and Uri Aviram. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978. 337 pp. $19.95

Social Work ◽  
1980 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Community Based

Recruitment into Treatment of Homeless, Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusing Men

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rahav ◽  
Larry Nuttbrock ◽  
James J. Rivera ◽  
Daisy Ng-Mak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Client Characteristics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill ◽  
Abuse Characteristics ◽  
Two Stages

Under the assumption that the treatment of substance abuse begins well before substance abusers actually enroll in treatment, this paper conceptualizes the process of recruitment into treatment, and investigates attrition of treatment seeking clients during the treatment recruitment stage. The paper identifies two stages prior to treatment enrollment, treatment exploration and treatment recruitment, and presents the results of a study of 1,924 homeless, mentally ill, chemical abusing men who looked for community-based treatment in New York City between 1991 and 1996. Only 326 of these men actually entered treatment. The rest were lost either prior to or during the recruitment stage. The paper focuses on the 823 men who reached the treatment recruitment stage, and attempts to correlate their sociodemographic, psychological, and substance abuse characteristics with the different types of attrition during treatment recruitment. The results show that certain client characteristics predict rejection and certain other characteristics predict acceptance by the treatment programs.

scholarly journals Homelessness, outreach and advocacy: Current themes in North American community psychiatry

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 286-288
Author(s):  
Graham Thornicroft
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Psychiatry ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
The United States ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill

With the process of closing psychiatric hospitals and establishing community-based alternatives more than 20 years old in the United States, psychiatric practice there is in the post-deinstitutionalisation age. In Britain we are now starting on this same path. Against this background, I attended the annual conference convened by the journal Hospital and Community Psychiatry in October 1987. Held in Boston, in the same week that Major Koch of New York sanctioned the compulsory reinstitutionalisation of homeless mentally ill people from the streets of Manhattan, the conference emphasised four themes: homelessness, outreach programmes, systems of case management, and compulsory out-patient treatment.

scholarly journals ‘The good English’: The ideological construction of the target language in adult ESOL

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Kelsey Swift
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alternate Conceptions ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Ideological Construction

Abstract This project problematizes hegemonic conceptions of language by looking at the construction of ‘English’ in a nonprofit, community-based adult ESOL program in New York. I use ethnographic observation and interviews to uncover the discursive and pedagogical practices that uphold these hegemonic conceptions in this context. I find that the structural conditions of the program perpetuate a conception of ‘English’ shaped by linguistic racism and classism, despite the program's progressive ideals. Linguistic authority is centralized through the presentation of a closed linguistic system and a focus on replication of templatic language. This allows for the drawing of linguistic borders by pathologizing forms traditionally associated with racialized varieties of English, pointing to the persistence of raciolinguistic ideologies. Nevertheless, students destabilize these dominant ideas, revealing a disconnect between mainstream understandings of language and the way adult immigrant learners actually use language, and pointing to possibilities for alternate conceptions and pedagogies. (Language ideology, raciolinguistics, Standard English, adult ESOL)

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document