Homeless Mentally Ill Women: A Special Population

Abstract

a conceptual analysis of homeless mentally ill women as a unique service population / explores the interactive impact of gender, mental illness, and homelessness as barriers to care / discusses, in turn, the circumstances of homeless people in general, homeless people who have chronic mental illnesses, homeless women, and, finally, homeless mentally ill women one overarching observation was made about homeless mentally ill women: multiple disabilities from many different sources converge and interact to make these women uniquely stigmatized, uniquely vulnerable, uniquely lacking in resources, and uniquely difficult to serve (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)