Losing Tim - How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son With Schizophrenia

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Paul Gionfriddo

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Paul Gionfriddo, Gionfriddo Paul
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9780231168281
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16828-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia, Psychotherapy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs