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Author Gionfriddo, Paul.

Title Losing Tim : how our health and education systems failed my son with schizophrenia / Paul Gionfriddo.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  362.26 GIONFRIDDO    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.26 GIO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  362.26 GIONFRIDDO    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  362.26 GIO    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  362.2 GIO    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.26092 GI    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-247)
Contents Tim brings a gun to school -- Tim gets his start -- Our introduction to special education -- A new school, a new crisis -- Suspended animation -- Rocketing through middle school -- High school cooks up trouble -- West to the Northwest -- Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown -- Tim comes to Austin -- Americorps and the chain of neglect -- Tim begins adult life -- Tim hits the revolving door -- Launching Tim -- Tim returns to Middletown -- Epilogue.
Summary Paul Gionfriddo's son Tim is one of the "6 percent"--an American with serious mental illness. He is also one of the half million homeless people with serious mental illnesses in desperate need of help yet underserved or ignored by our health and social-service systems.
Subject Gionfriddo, Tim -- Mental health.
Schizophrenia in children -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Mental health policy -- United States.
Schizophrenia -- United States -- Personal Narratives.
ISBN 9780231168281 (cloth: alkaline paper)
0231168284 (cloth: alkaline paper)
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