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Psychology

2014

Homeless

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Social Support And The Role Of Housing For Homeless Families Involved In The Child Welfare System, Saidah Chambers Nov 2014

Social Support And The Role Of Housing For Homeless Families Involved In The Child Welfare System, Saidah Chambers

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigates the impact of a housing intervention for homeless families involved in the child welfare system on social support and their networks. Qualitative methods were employed in a randomized control trial of a housing intervention to examine the meaning of social support ±rom the perspective of caregivers while exploring the relation between instrumental support (e.g. advice, emotional support, and perceived support), family roles, decision making processes, and housing. Findings suggest little difference in families' perceptions of social support regardless of receiving a housing voucher; however, differences between doubled up housing arrangements and independently housed families may be …

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The Homeless Mentally Ill: A Class Explores, Leeann Bartolini Dec 2013

The Homeless Mentally Ill: A Class Explores, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

This blog is created to foster faculty and student engagement focusing on the topic of the homeless mentally ill. Much research, scholarship, discussion, and money has been and is currently devoted to solving this problem. In the Spring of 2014, students in Dr. Bartolini’s Abnormal Psychology course (yes, she’d rather it be called the Psychology of Mental Illness) will be summarizing past research from the last four decades on this topic and examining various city based attempted solutions

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