Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice (ACFPP)
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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).
Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness is an essential resource for policy makers and related professionals and for graduate students and researchers in developmental, clinical, and school psychology; child, youth and family policy; public health; and social work.
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Keywords
- 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
- Physical health and family homelessness
- Policy implications and family homelessness
- Positive parenting and homelessness
- Psychosocial interventions and homelessness
- Traumatic stress and homeless families
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness
Book Subtitle: Integrating Research into Practice and Policy
Editors: Mary E. Haskett
Series Title: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50886-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50885-6Published: 17 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50886-3Published: 08 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2625-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 116
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Public Health