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Question: Mental Illness and Homelessness: Individuals facing homelessness are at a relatively high risk for a broad range of acute and chronic illnesses, with the most common being mental illnesses. Mental illness can be an antecedent of homelessness and also a consequence of homelessness.

Why do you think there is this connection between homelessness and mental illness? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
What steps can be taken to ensure that individuals are receiving the treatment that they need? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
Find one initiative that seeks to address this issue (e.g., an organization whose mission focuses on this issue, a policy, health promotion program, advocacy movement, etc.). Make sure to include the reference for the initiative you've selected.
Mental Illness and Incarceration: The lack of sufficient community-based treatment options has resulted in a drastic increase in the incarceration of people with mental illness. Incarcerating people with mental illness raises a number of ethical and security issues.

What are some of these ethical and security issues? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
How would you approach trying to reduce these issues? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
Find one initiative that seeks to address this issue (e.g., an organization whose mission focuses on this issue, a policy, health promotion program, advocacy movement, etc.). Make sure to include the reference for the initiative you've selected.
Mental Illness and Stigmatization: Individuals with mental illness face many struggles, including symptoms and disabilities that result from the illness. However, individuals with mental illness face additional stereotypes and prejudice that individuals with "physical" illness do not have to face (i.e., diabetes).

Why are individuals with mental illness stigmatized by much of the general population? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
What effect does this stigmatization have on treatment-seeking behavior of individuals? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
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College Students, Depression, and Suicidal Thinking: Suicidal thinking, severe depression and rates of self-injury among U.S. college students has more than doubled in the last decade.

What role do universities have in providing mental health care to students? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
Why do you think there has been such a large increase in these issues in the last decade? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
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Mental Illness and Culture: Attitudes toward mental illness vary among individuals, families, ethnicities, cultures, and countries. Cultural and religious teachings often influence beliefs about the origins and nature of mental illness and shape attitudes towards the mentally ill.

How do beliefs about mental illness affect patients' readiness and willingness to seek and adhere to treatment? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
How can public health professionals help to explain mental illness to a wide variety of audiences? Support your answer with reference from a scholarly article.
Find one initiative that seeks to address this issue (e.g., an organization whose mission focuses on this issue, a policy, health promotion program, advocacy movement, etc.). Make sure to include the reference for the initiative you've selected.