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Clinical Care for Homeless, Runaway and Refugee Youth

Intervention Approaches, Education and Research Directions

  • Practical, easy-to-read guide

  • Written by interdisciplinary contributors from social work, education nursing, public health, and mental health, to adolescent medicine and psychiatry

  • clinically-focused, realistic recommendations for the practitioner treating homeless youth

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Youth Homelessness in Canada: An Overview

    • Grant Charles, Curren Warf, Gary Tennant
    Pages 11-18
  3. Homeless Adolescents: Identification, Outreach, Engagement, Housing, and Stabilization

    • Susan Rabinovitz, Arlene Schneir, Curren Warf
    Pages 45-68
  4. Providing Clinical Care to Youth Experiencing Homelessness

    • Eva Moore, Curren Warf
    Pages 187-209
  5. Contraception

    • Meera Beharry, Celia Neavel
    Pages 211-241
  6. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

    • Jonathan D. Warus, Marvin E. Belzer
    Pages 271-296
  7. Medical Care of Youth After Acute Sexual Assault

    • Margaret Colbourne, Tracy Ann Pickett
    Pages 297-304
  8. Suicide Risk and Intervention Among Homeless and Precariously Housed Youth

    • Sara Sherer, Bridgid Mariko Conn, Mari Radzik
    Pages 305-315
  9. Common Dermatology Problems Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness

    • Saud A. Alobaida, Wingfield E. Rehmus
    Pages 317-348
  10. Challenges Faced by International Migrants and Refugees to the Health, Development, and Well-Being of Adolescents and Youth

    • Curren Warf, Evelyn Eisenstein, Abdul Karim AlMakadma, John Howard, Diana Birch, Irene Jillson et al.
    Pages 349-403
  11. Meaningfully Engaging Homeless Youth in Research

    • Annie Smith, Maya Peled, Stephanie Martin
    Pages 405-417
  12. Conclusion: Next Steps for Investigation and Research

    • Grant Charles, Curren Warf, Gary Tennant
    Pages 419-434

About this book

Adolescent homelessness is a growing problem that results in a variety of health challenges. This text is a practical resource designed to promote effective interdisciplinary health and social care interventions targeting adolescents who are homeless or at risk for homelessness. It is based on extensive interdisciplinary experience, reviews of pertinent research and insights and contributions of leading professionals who are directly involved in the care of these young people.

Divided into four main sections, Section 1: (Chapters 1-7) section one is a review of the structure and professional involvement of program models targeting youth experiencing or at risk for homelessness to encourage broader understanding and utilization of principles and practices underlying effective programs and identify replicable components. Section 2: (Chapters 8-16) Section two is clinically focused with recommendations for working with adolescents and youth experiencing homelessness and interventions for common and significant medical and mental health conditions, and substance use disorders. Section 3: (Chapter 17) Reviews international agreements regarding stabilization and care of refugee youth and families, description of experiences of refugee children and youth in developed countries, and an outline of conditions from which refugee youth and families have left. Section 4: (Chapters 18 and 19) Engagement of homeless youth in research and future research directions to address needs of youth experiencing homelessness.

Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, Clinical Care for Homeless, Runaway and Refugee Youth is a first of its kind text for physicians, social workers, public health workers and any other individual that works directly with these vulnerable populations.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pediatrics (Retired), Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Curren Warf

  • School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Grant Charles

About the editors

Curren Warf MD, MSEd
Department of Pediatrics (Retired), Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
British Columbia Children’s Hospital
University of British Columbia 
Vancouver, BC





Grant Charles, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
Department of Social Work

University of British Columbi
Vancouver, BC



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical Care for Homeless, Runaway and Refugee Youth

  • Book Subtitle: Intervention Approaches, Education and Research Directions

  • Editors: Curren Warf, Grant Charles

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40675-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40674-5Published: 06 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40677-6Published: 06 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40675-2Published: 05 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 443

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Practice and Hospital Management

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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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