Gionfriddo Losing Tim

How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53715-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A former policy maker exposes the scandal of American mental health policy and its effect on the life of his son.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gionfriddo, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Tim Brings a Gun to School
2. Tim Gets His Start
3. Our Introduction to Special Education
4. A New School, a New Crisis
5. Suspended Animation
6. Rocketing Through Middle School
7. High School Cooks Up Trouble
8. West to the Northwest
9. Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown
10. Tim Comes to Austin
11. AmeriCorps and the Chain of Neglect
12. Tim Begins Adult Life
13. Tim Hits the Revolving Door
14. Launching Tim
15. Tim Returns to Middletown
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
References

Leseproben

Read the chapter, "Tim Brings a Gun to School":

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Gionfriddo was born and raised in Middletown, Connecticut, and graduated from Wesleyan University. He was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1978 and mayor of Middletown in 1989. He has led nonprofits in three states and was on the adjunct faculty at Wesleyan University and Trinity College. In 2014, he was named president and CEO of Mental Health America. He lives in Lake Worth, Florida, with his wife, Pam.