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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886333003321

Autore

Myers Neely Laurenzo <1979->

Titolo

Breaking Points : Youth Mental Health Crises and How We All Can Help

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780520400627

0520400623

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Collana

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series ; ; v.18

Classificazione

SOC002000MED043000

Disciplina

616.8900835

Soggetti

Psychoses - Treatment - United States

Young adults - Mental health services - United States

Young adults - Mental health - United States

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



matters most to young people in crisis, passionately arguing that health care providers must attend not only to the medical and material dimensions of care but also to a patient's moral agency.