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You are here: Home / News / Mental health /Until homelessness services can recognise that many of their clients will have suffered emotional trauma, a lot of the help on offer will only scratch the surface. That is the message from new guidance issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the government's National Mental Health Development Unit.
Depression among homeless people is double that for the rest of the population, the rates of psychosis may be anything between four and 15 times higher and the number of people with personality disorders may be as high as 60%.
(External) Read the full article on the National Mental Health Development Unit website.
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