Losing Tim : how our health and education systems failed my son with schizophrenia / Paul Gionfriddo.
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true Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction 362.26 GIO
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true Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department 362.26 GIONFRIDDO
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true Southington Library - Adult 362.2 GIO
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Дополнительная Информация
- Описание
- xiv, 247 pages ; 24 cm
- Библиография
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-247)
- Содержание
- Tim brings a gun to school -- Tim gets his start -- Our introduction to special education -- A new school, a new crisis -- Suspended animation -- Rocketing through middle school -- High school cooks up trouble -- West to the Northwest -- Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown -- Tim comes to Austin -- Americorps and the chain of neglect -- Tim begins adult life -- Tim hits the revolving door -- Launching Tim -- Tim returns to Middletown -- Epilogue.
- Summary
- Paul Gionfriddo's son Tim is one of the "6 percent"--an American with serious mental illness. He is also one of the half million homeless people with serious mental illnesses in desperate need of help yet underserved or ignored by our health and social-service systems.
- Тема
- Gionfriddo, Tim -- Mental health.
- Schizophrenia in children -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
- Mental health policy -- United States.
- Schizophrenia -- United States -- Personal Narratives.
- ISBN
- 9780231168281 (cloth: alkaline paper)
- 0231168284 (cloth: alkaline paper)