Anxiety Disorders Case Study

The first interviewee that I select for discussing how anxiety impact on homeless young adults is Kristine Cunningham. She is ROOTS’s executive director since 2010. The meeting with Kristine is approximately 50 minutes long. From the beginning of our conversation, she addressed that the severity of anxiety on homeless young adults is based on how long they have been lived on the street. In the other words, as long as they living on the street, their anxiety would never be gone. She says, “homeless young adults on the street suffered from their mental health illnesses because they feel very unsafe every night.” For example, other street homelessness would mess around with them during night and cause them to feel unsafe and have not enough sleep.
She is one of the doctor associates in the Community Psychiatric Clinic (CPC). We have a phone interview approximately 30 minutes. She believes that anxiety on homeless young adults is a serious public health problem because each part of the population impact on the whole community’s health. Also, she defined that anxiety disorder is one of the behavioral health disorders which induce from stress. Anxiety disorder is a severe mental health issue which can lead to other related mental health illnesses, such as depression, bipolar disorder, and substance disorders. This problem is a serious issue that matter to her because she had involved with several national mental health policies and she believes that only increase the accessibility of physical health care can resolve the large amount of anxiety disorder on homeless young adults today. For the related program that target on anxiety disorder, Jessica said that CPC has their own array of treatment and counseling service to assist and recover those young adults from their behavioral health disorders. Many of the homeless young adults has been referred from other shelters to their place because he or she may have a severe mental health illness, which let he or she not litigable to stay in shelter. CPC also has housing support for low income or homeless people. The purpose of housing support services is to provide them with the skills and successfully live independently in the community and maintain their housing. Jessica thinks that treatment and counseling can help them recover from these behavioral disorders. However, she believes that the community itself has to be aware from the causation of anxiety on homeless young adults. She suggested that having multiple services agencies close to each together would efficiently decrease the anxiety disorder of homeless young adults, because she has notice that homeless population has a hard time to access public transportation.