Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia
Paul Gionfriddo
eISBN: 9780231537155
2014 (264 pages )
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(pages 1-267)
Front Matter
(pages 1-9)
Table of Contents
(pages 10-11)
Preface
(pages 12-17)
1. Tim Brings a Gun to School
(pages 18-31)
2. Tim Gets His Start
(pages 32-49)
3. Our Introduction to Special Education
(pages 50-73)
4. A New School, a New Crisis
(pages 74-89)
5. Suspended Animation
(pages 90-109)
6. Rocketing Through Middle School
(pages 110-117)
7. High School Cooks Up Trouble
(pages 118-127)
8. West to the Northwest
(pages 128-141)
9. Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown
(pages 142-161)
10. Tim Comes to Austin
(pages 162-175)
11. AmeriCorps and the Chain of Neglect
(pages 176-187)
12. Tim Begins Adult Life
(pages 188-203)
13. Tim Hits the Revolving Door
(pages 204-215)
14. Launching Tim
(pages 216-233)
15. Tim Returns to Middletown
(pages 234-243)
Epilogue
(pages 244-259)
Acknowledgments
(pages 260-261)
References
(pages 262-267)
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Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia
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.
In this moving, detailed, clear-eyed exposé, Gionfriddo describes how Tim and others like him come to live on the street. Gionfriddo takes stock of the numerous injustices that kept his son from realizing his potential from the time Tim first began to show symptoms of schizophrenia to the inadequate educational supports he received growing up, his isolation from family and friends, and his frequent encounters with the juvenile justice system and, later, the adult criminal-justice system and its substandard mental health care. Tim entered adulthood with limited formal education, few work skills, and a chronic, debilitating disease that took him from the streets to jails to hospitals and then back to the streets. Losing Tim shows that people with mental illness become homeless as a result not of bad choices but of bad policy. As a former state policy maker, Gionfriddo concludes with recommendations for reforming America’s ailing approach to mental health.
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Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia
Author(s):
Gionfriddo, Paul
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