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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blank Wilson, Amy

Titel

How People With Serious Mental Illness Seek Help After Leaving Jail

Ist Teil von

• Qualitative health research, 2013-12, Vol.23 (12), p.1575-1590

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this study, I examined how people with serious mental illness defined and prioritized their service needs when released from jail and how these service priorities shaped the sequencing of help-seeking activities after their release. Data included ethnographic observations and interviews with the staff and clients of a mental health reentry program and responses to an open-ended questionnaire that was given to the program’s clients (N = 115). Sixty-three percent of the clients identified housing and 35% identified financial assistance as one of their two most important service needs, whereas only 12% selected treatment services. These service priorities reflect a hierarchy in help-seeking activities postrelease in which clients’ access to treatment services was predicated on their ability to first find sustainable economic and material support. I conclude that reentry programs need to have the resources required to meet both the basic and treatment needs of people with serious mental illness leaving jail.