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Homeless Mentally Ill Women: A Special Population

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Homeless mentally ill women clearly constitute what the President’s Commission on Mental Health (1978) in the Carter years termed a “special population”—a subpopulation of American citizens who experience extraordinary and often unremitting barriers to care. Indeed, several areas of “specialness” converge to affect the access of homeless mentally ill women to needed services.

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  1. Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Cantonsville, Maryland, 21228, USA

    Leona L. Bachrach

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Bachrach, L.L. (1990). Homeless Mentally Ill Women: A Special Population. In: Spurlock, J., Robinowitz, C.B. (eds) Women’s Progress. Women in Context. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0855-1_14

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