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The Perpetual Homelessness of College Experiences: Tensions between Home and Campus for African American Women
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
There is an ongoing debate about whether African American students need to sever ties with their families to be successful in college. Adding nuance to this debate, this ethnographic study examines African American women’s experiences of...
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North America
Working Therapeutically with Mothers Who Experience the Trauma of Homelessness: An Opportunity for Growth
Victoria Tischler
Vicki Edwards
Panos Vostanis
Homelessness is recognised to be a traumatic event in itself and is often preceded by the experience of violence. More recent research has indicated that homelessness can function to enact growth and resilience in women with dependent...
Region:
North America
Enabling Older Homeless Minority Women to Overcome Homelessness by Using a Life Management Enhancement Group Intervention
Jacquelyn Y. Taylor
David P. Moxle
Olivia G. M. Washington
This paper describes the importance of a life management enhancement (LME) group intervention for older minority women in developing personal control and self-confidence in social relationships as they overcome homelessness. Women in the...
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North America
Becoming Homeless, Being Homeless, and Resolving Homelessness Among Women
Deborah Finfgeld-Connett
PhD
The purpose of this investigation was to more comprehensively articulate the experiences of homeless women and make evidence-based inferences regarding optimal social services. This study was conducted using qualitative meta-synthesis...
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North America
An Intervention to Enhance Psychological Capital in Homeless Females: Preliminary Findings
Lynn Rew
Sanna Thompson
Adama Brown
Eunjin Seo
Homeless young women ages 18-23 years are the most vulnerable of unstably-housed youth. They are prone to sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancies, and substance use/abuse. The study aim was to determine feasibility and...
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North America
Women and Homelessness in Spain
María Rosario
H. SánchezMorales
This work focuses on the situation of homeless women in present-day Spain. This constitutes both a social and a personal problem embedded in the dynamics of social exclusion and linked to the interplay among structural, family/relational,...
Region:
Europe
Mainstreaming Gender into Mega-city development Programs: Consequences of Forced Evictions for Women and Children in Urban slums
Jennifer Joel
Poverty is a hydra-headed phenomenon. Its effects on citizens are as varied as the descriptions of the individual as are the causes. Some are born into it; some are forced into it by changes in the external environment. War, drought,...
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Africa
I Built My House of Hope: Abused Women and Pathways Into Homelessness
Show less Leslie M. Tutty
Cindy Ogden
Bianca Giurgiu
Gillian Weaver-Dunlop
Violence from intimate partners is a serious reality for a number of women. For some abused women, leaving becomes a path to homelessness. In fact, when abused women and their children leave their homes because of partner abuse, they...
Region:
North America
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