Gender and Homelessness

Hagen, Jan L.

doi:10.1093/sw/32.4.312

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“…A large proportion of homeless women in the United States have reported that their partners abused them in some way (Goodman, 1991). Leaving abusive relationships is one of the main causes women cite for becoming homeless (Hagen, 1987). Such abuse leads to a distrust of others and to social isolation (Dobash & Dobash, 1979).…”

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Affiliation, Gender, and Parental Status Among Homeless Persons

Morris

1998

The Journal of Social Psychology

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Affiliation, loss of affiliation, and the associated effects on homeless individuals were assessed via a survey of 230 homeless adults in Florida. Women accompanied by dependent children, unaccompanied women, and unaccompanied men were compared regarding levels of affiliation and associations among affiliation, self-esteem, and locus of control. The women accompanied by children maintained more family contacts and had higher levels of self-esteem; for the group, locus of control was more external than for either the unaccompanied women or the unaccompanied men. Women with children also had the lowest median number of days homeless and the highest average monthly incomes.

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Affiliation, Gender, and Parental Status Among Homeless Persons

Morris

1998

The Journal of Social Psychology

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“…Thus, for example, Caton, Wyatt, Grunberg, and Felix (1990) conducted a pre-post (Belcher, 1991;Hagen, 1987; Leda & Rosenheck, 1992;Toomey, First, Rife, & Belcher, 1989). Many reports studying outcomes for individuals who are homeless and mentally ill have examined program type as an independent variable: Lipton, Nutt, and Sabatini (1988) used an experimental design to examine homeless outcomes and psychiatric symptomatology for participants randomly assigned at discharge from a psychiatric emergency service to either a specialized residential program or to the standard aftercare services.…”

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The Importance of Context in Understanding Homelessness and Mental Illness: Lessons Learned From a Research Demonstration Project

Mowbray

Bybee

1998

Research on Social Work Practice

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Fischer, Drake, & Breakey, 1992). However, it is also clear that these individuals constitute a group with a multiplicity of problems-of critical intensity and requiring attention. A substantial amount of public funding from federal and state sources has been invested in attempted solutions to the problems of homelessness and mental illness. However, the number of descriptive reports in the literature greatly exceeds that for reported evaluations of these programs. Indeed, although general principles for serving persons who are homeless and mentally ill have been articulated Blankertz, Cnaan, White, Fox, & Messinger, 1990;Sheridan, Gowen, & Halpin, 1993;Susser, Goldfinger, & White, 1990) Levine, 1991;Fischer, 1989;Johnson, 1989;Ribisl et al., 1996) (1989, 1991) Bybee, Mowbray, & Cohen, 1994). Highlights of Program ResultsPreviously published studies have described the heterogeneity of the population served ). An implementation analysis conducted on the project indicated that in its fully operational period, it was serving the intended population by site and referral source (Mowbray, Cohen, & Bybee, 1991). The project achieved a relatively high success rate in engaging clients screened eligible for services, in that 73 % overall accepted some form of project assistance . This compares favorably to other reports in the literature (Barrow et al., 1989;Rife et al., 1991 . There were no significant differences in rates of engagement by recruitment source at the Collegetown site (see Table 2). For Factorytown, however, the interaction of engagement rate and recruitment source during the implementation period was significant, with marked differences across recruitment sources in the numbers served and in their successful engagement. Thus, we found that during the first screening period from March 1989 through December 1989 (see Table 2), nearly half (46.0%) of the project's eligible clients were recruited from the CMH caseload, and they were engaged with remarkable success (96.6% were fully engaged). However, only a small proportion of the total pool of those eligible were recruited from shelters (7.9%), and only 60% of those recruited were fully engaged. Although there was a good proportion of those eligible recruited from hospital units (46.0%), only 24.1 % of these were fully engaged. These results reflected marked deviations from agreed-on project expectations for 185

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“…In recent years, investigators of the homeless have begun to differentiate the experiences of homeless women and men, noting that many more women than men report histories of psychiatric hospitalization (Crystal, 1984;Moore, 1988); higher rates of major mental illness (Bassuk, Rubin, & Lauriat, 1984); more difficulty in current life circumstances, often involving not getting enough to eat or enough sleep (Rosnow, Shaw, & Concord, 1985); and histories of sexual or physical abuse (Lenehan, McInnes, O'Donnell, 8z Hennessey, 1985; Mulkern, Bradley, Spence, Allein, 8z Oldham, 1985). Hagen (1987) reported that women are more likely than men to experience homelessness as a result of domestic violence and eviction. In addition, many of the previously cited studies suggest that homeless women experience high levels of fear, especially fear of physical harm.…”

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Victimization among homeless women: Implications for service delivery

D'Ercole

Struening

1990

J. Community Psychol.

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This article focuses on the experience of victimization among a representative sample of 141 homeless women interviewed in a single‐adult shelter in New York City. The frequency of victimization experiences, specifically aggressive sexual and physical assault, was high. Twenty‐one women reported being raped, 42 women reported both rape and physical abuse, and 62 women reported physical abuse without sexual abuse. Shelter women reporting frequent experiences were likely to experience high levels of depressive symptoms; psychotic symptoms; and hospitalization for psychiatric, medical, alcohol, and drug problems. These results further indicate that assault experiences cluster in specific ways and are associated with different clinical outcomes. These findings are seen as underscoring the need for service delivery programs to respond to the experience of vicitimization among homeless women and suggest some future research directions.

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Gender and Homelessness

Cited by 69 publications

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Affiliation, Gender, and Parental Status Among Homeless Persons

Affiliation, Gender, and Parental Status Among Homeless Persons

The Importance of Context in Understanding Homelessness and Mental Illness: Lessons Learned From a Research Demonstration Project

Victimization among homeless women: Implications for service delivery

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