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Autore |
Myers Neely Laurenzo <1979-> |
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Breaking Points : Youth Mental Health Crises and How We All Can Help |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2024 |
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©2024 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Collana |
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Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series ; ; v.18 |
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Psychoses - Treatment - United States |
Young adults - Mental health services - United States |
Young adults - Mental health - United States |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Frontispiece -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Under Pressure -- 1. Work Hard, Play Hard -- 2. Into the Mythos -- 3. Dangerous -- 4. Disorientations -- 5. Users and Refusers -- 6. Homecoming -- 7. Turning Points -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Team Ethnographic Methods -- Appendix 2. Resources for Youth and Families -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Artists -- Index. |
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Unprecedented numbers of young people are in crisis today, and our health care systems are set up to fail them. Breaking Points explores the stories of a diverse group of American young adults experiencing psychiatric hospitalization for psychotic symptoms for the first time and documents how patients and their families make decisions about treatment after their release. Approximately half of young people refuse mental-health care after their initial hospitalization even though we know that better outcomes depend on early support for youth and families. In attempting to determine why this is the case, Neely Laurenzo Myers identifies what |
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