Pathways to Youth Homelessness  

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Martijn, Claudine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 1 (Jan. 2006), page 1-12.
Topik: HOMELESS; homeless; youth; psychological disorders; pathways; trauma; australia

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Recent documents high levels of psychopathology among homeless youth. Most research, however, has not distinguished between disorders that are present prior to homelessness and those that develop following homelessness. Hence whether psychological disorders are the cause or consequence of homelessness has not been established. The aim of this study is to investigate causal pathways to homelessness amongst currently homeless youth in australia. The study uses a quasi qualitative methodoly to generate hypotheses for larger scale research. High rates of psychological disorders were confirmed in the sample 35 homeless youth aged 14 - 25. The rates of psychological disorders at the point of homelessness were greater than in normative samples, but the rates of clinical disorder increased further once homeless. Further in depth analyses were conducted to identify the temporal sequence for rach individual with a view to establishing a set of causel pathways to homelessness and trajectories following homelessness were identified that accounted for the entire sample. Each pathways constituted a series of interactions between different factor similar to that described by craig and hodson (1998, psychological emdicine 28, 1379 - 1388) as complex subsidiary pathways. The major findings were that : 1. trauma is a common experience amongs homeless youth prior to homelessness and figured in the causal pathways to homelessness for over half of the sample 2. once homeless for the majority of youth there is an increase in the number of psychological diagnoses including drug and alcohol diagnose, and 3. crime did not precede homelessness for all but one youth, however following homelessness, involvement in criminal activity was common and became a ditinguishing factor amongst youth. The implications of these findings for future research and service development are discussed.

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