Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness
Integrating Research into Practice and Policy
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Beschreibung
This brief highlights several of the most pressing challenges in addressing the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness and presents a set of strong policy recommendations for assessment, intervention, research, and service delivery related to homeless children and their parents. Chapters increase awareness of the mental health, educational, and developmental challenges faced by these children and their parents. In addition, chapters provide practice implications of current research with a focus on the importance of careful assessment of service and housing needs; individual differences in strengths and adjustment of parents and children experiencing homelessness; and innovative treatment and service delivery approaches to address the unique needs of this population.
Featured topics include:
- Promoting positive parenting among homeless families.
- Innovative intervention, assessment, and service delivery models.
- Homeless children and early childhood care and education systems.
- Early Risers intervention & Community Action Targeting Children who are Homeless Project (Project CATCH).
Examines mental health, educational, and developmental challenges of homeless families Explores assessment of functioning across domains and time Describes how to leverage individual strengths of parents and children Discusses innovative service delivery approaches to address the unique needs of this population Highlights the most critical challenges in addressing the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness
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Mary E. Haskett
Themen in »Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness«
Child executive functioning and homelessness Children’s mental health and homelessness Cognitive functioning and family homelessness Community response to family homelessness Depression and family homelessness Early childhood services and homelessness Early Risers intervention and family homelessness Emergency housing for homeless families Externalizing disorders and homeless children Families and homelessness Interagency collaboration on homelessness Internalizing disorders and homeless children Mental health, adaptation, and homeless families Parenting and homelessness Parenting warmth and homelessness
Stimmen zu »Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness«
“This book achieves its goals of increasing awareness of the challenges faced by homeless children and families, implementing and evaluating interventions, and generating policy recommendations. … In addition to researchers and academics, this volume is likely to become a resource for policy makers, child advocates, and educators (particularly those involved with Head Start programs). … this collection of empirical studies and policy recommendations is one step in the right direction for homeless children and their families.” (Katelyn E. Poelker, Nicole D. Yong and Judith L. Gibbons, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (31), August, 2017)
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