Paul Gionfriddo

Losing Tim

How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780231168281
• ISBN-10: 0231168284
• Artikelnr.: 40950869

Autorenporträt

Paul Gionfriddo

Inhaltsangabe

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