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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Neely Laurenzo, 1979-

Series:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series ; v.18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoses--Treatment--United States.

Psychoses.

Young adults--Mental health services--United States.

Young adults.

Young adults--Mental health--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520400627

0520400623

OCLC:

1439598581