Criminal behavior among homeless individuals with severe mental illness

Multiple Drug Use Disorder in Homeless People with Severe Mental Illness

“…In fact, some studies on the general population of adults with SMI have found that substance abuse is the main cause of crime and not mental illness in itself. And, in this sense, it is possible that for HP with SMI, several causal pathways underlie the relationship between MDUD and the existence of criminal behavior antecedents; such as, for example, that the disinhibition effect of drug and alcohol abuse may cause some HI with SMI to exhibit problematic behaviour on the street, thereby increasing the risk of criminal altercations [6,13].…”

“…An observational naturalistic study performed on a group of patients with a severe mental illness (SMI) in a situation of social exclusion, attended by the Mental Health Street Team of Madrid's 'Programme for the Psychiatric Care of the Homeless Mentally Ill [6,7]. The abovementioned programme provides social, health and psychiatric care for all adult homeless people in the municipality of Madrid with a SMI, and who for various reasons are not being monitored by the standard mental health network.…”

Transgender Women with Severe Mental Illness and Homelessness: A Retrospective Case Series

“…This observational naturalistic study was done in the Mental Health Street Team of Madrid's "Programme for the Psychiatric Care of the Homeless Mentally Ill" in Spain. The abovementioned Programme provides social, health and psychiatric care for all adult homeless people in the municipality of Madrid (Spain) with SMI, and who for various reasons are not being monitored by the standard mental health network [3] [4]. We followed the criteria of the FEANTSA based on the ETHOS to categorise a person as homeless [6].…”

“…Research has also provided conflicting psychiatric outcomes following gender-confirming medical interventions [2]. TW with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) are one of the most vulnerable and most difficult to engage in order to receive medical attention population, raising major challenges in their treatment of adverse health conditions [3] [4]. The criterion for designating an individual as having an SMI is established by the United States' National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), [5] which defines this social group as: "A group of heterogeneous individuals, who suffer from severe psychiatric illnesses, identified by mental illnesses of prolonged duration, which involve a variable degree of disability and social dysfunction, and which have to be attended to with various social and health resources in the psychiatric and social health care network".…”