Rough living: Surviving violence &amp; homelessness

Robinson, Catherine

doi:10.5130/978-1-86365-425-8

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“…An ongoing deterioration in clinical and psychosocial functioning due to the effects of homelessness is one hypothesis. From a psychosocial perspective, worsening mental health may be due to the detrimental and accumulating impact of trauma and stress (Dixon et al, 2011;McCay, 2011;McManus & Thompson, 2008;Robinson, 2010), and/or difficulties in coping with the conditions associated with homelessness (such as poor physical and dental health, harmful effects of weather conditions, and a lack of supportive relationships). Another possibility is that admissions were used as a respite from homelessness, although there is insufficient empirical data to test this idea.…”

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Homelessness youth and mental health service utilization: A long‐term follow‐up study

Russell

Soong

Nicholls

et al. 2020

Early Intervention Psych

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Background: There is currently an incomplete picture of the long-term impact of homelessness on youth with mental health issues. There are also questions regarding homelessness as a predictor of mental health re-admissions.Aims: To examine the mental health service presentation profile of young people affected by homelessness and mental health issues.Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted of the medical records of homeless (n = 29) and non-homeless (n = 32) youth who attended the YouthLink specialist mental health service in 2010. We tracked their pattern of mental health service admissions at five time points during a total period of 10 years, including 2 years prior to, and up to 8 years following the YouthLink presentation. A regression analysis was used to examine factors hypothesized to contribute to mental health readmissions.Results: Homeless youth had significantly more frequent presentations to inpatient and outpatient mental health services, and emergency departments for mental health reasons. They were 11 times more likely to be re-admitted to a mental health inpatient ward than non-homeless youth. Prior hospital admission was an independent predictor, increasing by a factor of 2.2 for every inpatient admission. Conclusion:The impact of homelessness on mental health issues is enduring, and is a long-term predictor of hospital re-admission.

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Homelessness youth and mental health service utilization: A long‐term follow‐up study

Russell

Soong

Nicholls

et al. 2020

Early Intervention Psych

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“…Ending a person's homelessness is not synonymous with ending their poverty, or a range of other health and social problems they may have (O'Connell, Kasprow and Rosenheck 2009; Padgett, Gulcur and Tsemberis 2006; Shinn, Baumohl and Hopper 2001). While the powerlessness, trauma and danger of homelessness (Parsell 2012; Robinson 2010) means that prevention is a public policy good, ending homelessness is not sufficient to achieve the economic, health and social participation objectives that are intended to follow such outcomes (COAG 2009; Queensland Government 2008). Preventing homelessness is not a panacea for addressing poverty or other problems people may be experiencing.…”

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Beyond the ‘At Risk’ Individual: Housing and the Eradication of Poverty to Prevent Homelessness

Parsell

Marston

2012

Aust J Public Adm

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A prevention framework represents one of the fundamental means of the Australian Government's contemporary drive to achieve permanent reductions in homelessness. Consistent with prevailing policies in the UK and US, Australia has approached homelessness prevention through identification and early intervention of individuals 'at risk' of homelessness. In this article we suggest that prevention strategies focused on the risk factors that individual pose obscures efforts to address the underlying structural factors that contribute to homelessness, or to reduce the prevalence of homelessness at the overall population level. The article examines the efficacy of increasing the supply of affordable housing to prevent homelessness, but suggests that the provision of housing alone may be insufficient to realising related well-being objectives. In turn, it is proposed that policy which focuses on poverty reduction has the capacity to achieve the sustainable prevention of homelessness ambitions.

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Fronts and Friends: Social Contingencies in the Management of Drug Debt

Laing,

Richardson

2024

The Sociological Quarterly

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Rough living: Surviving violence & homelessness

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Homelessness youth and mental health service utilization: A long‐term follow‐up study

Homelessness youth and mental health service utilization: A long‐term follow‐up study

Beyond the ‘At Risk’ Individual: Housing and the Eradication of Poverty to Prevent Homelessness

Fronts and Friends: Social Contingencies in the Management of Drug Debt

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