Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Homeless Veterans Who Served in Iraq and Afghanistan: Gender Differences, Combat Exposure, and Comparisons with Previous Cohorts of Homeless Veterans

  • Point of View
  • Published:
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev. ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

  • Blackstock, O. J., Haskell, S. G., Brandt, C. A., & Desai, R. A. (2012). Gender and the use of Veterans Health Administration homeless services programs among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans. Medical Care, 50(4), 347–352.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Caton, C. L., Dominguez, B., Schanzer, B., Hasin, D. S., Shrout, P. E., Felix, A., et al. (2005). Risk factors for long-term homelessness: Findings from a longitudinal study of first-time homeless single adults. American Journal of Public Health, 95, 1753–1759.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dohrenwend, B. (1982). Psychiatric epidemiology research interview (PERI). New York: Columbia University Social Psychiatry Unit.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dordick, G. A. (2002). Recovering from homelessness: Determining the “quality of sobriety” in a transitional housing program. Qualitative Sociology, 25(1), 7–32.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Drake, R. E., Muesuer, K. T., & McHugo, G. J. (1996). Clinician rating scales: Alcohol use scales (AUS), drug use scale (DUS), and substance abuse treatment scale (SATS). In L. I. Sederer & B. Dickey (Eds.), Outcomes assessment in clinical practice. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.

    Google Scholar 

  • Edens, E. L., Kasprow, W., Tsai, J., & Rosenheck, R. A. (2011). Association of substance use and VA service-connected disability benefits with risk of homelessness among veterans. American Journal of Addictions, 20(5), 412–419.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Folsom, D. P., Hawthorne, W., Lindamer, L. A., Gilmer, T., Bailey, A., Golshan, S., et al. (2005). Prevalence and risk factors for homelessness and utilization of mental health services among 10,340 patients with serious mental illness in a large public mental health system. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 370–376.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gamache, G., Rosenheck, R., & Tessler, R. (2003). Overrepresentation of women veterans among homeless women. American Journal of Public Health, 93(7), 1132–1136.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Heinrichs, D. W., Hanlon, T. E., & Carpenter, W. T. (1984). The quality of life scale: An instrument for rating the schizophrenic deficit syndrome. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10, 388–398.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hoge, C. W., Castro, C. A., Messer, S. C., McGurk, D., Cotting, D. I., & Koffman, R. L. (2004). Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, mental health problems, and barriers to care. New England Journal of Medicine, 351(1), 13–22.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kasprow, W. J., & Rosenheck, R. A. (2011). Beyond words: Homeless veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In D. Kelly, S. Barksdale, & D. Gitelson (Eds.), Treating young veterans: Promoting resilience through practice and advocacy. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kasprow, W. J., Rosenheck, R. A., Frisman, L., & DiLella, D. (2000). Referral and housing processes in a long-term supported housing program for homeless veterans. Psychiatric Services, 51, 1017–1023.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Leda, C., Rosenheck, R., & Gallup, P. (1992). Mental illness among homeless female veterans. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 43(10), 1026–1028.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mares, A. S., Kasprow, W. J., & Rosenheck, R. A. (2004). Outcomes of supported housing for homeless veterans with psychiatric and substance abuse problems. Mental Health Services Research, 6, 199–211.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • McLellan, A. T., Luborsky, L., Woody, G. E., & O’Brien, C. P. (1980). An improved diagnostic evaluation instrument for substance abuse patients: The Addiction Severity Index. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 168, 26–33.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenheck, R. A., Gallup, P., & Leda, C. (1991). Vietnam era and Vietnam combat veterans among the homeless. American Journal of Public Health, 81(5), 643–646.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenheck, R. A., & Koegel, P. (1993). Characteristics of veterans and nonveterans in three samples of homeless men. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 44(9), 858–863.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Susser, E., Moore, R., & Link, B. (1993). Risk factors for homelessness. American Journal of Epidemiology, 15(2), 546–556.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tsai, J., Mares, A. S., & Rosenheck, R. A. (2012). Do homeless veterans have the same needs and outcomes as non-veterans? Military Medicine, 177(1), 27–31.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Tsemberis, S., Gulcur, L., & Nakae, M. (2004). Housing first, consumer choice, and harm reduction for homeless individuals with a dual diagnosis. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 651–656.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs. (2009). Secretary Shinseki details plans to end homelessness for veterans. Retrieved April 20, 2012, from http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1807.

  • US Department of Housing and Urban Development, & US Department of Veterans Affairs. (2009). Veteran homelessness: A supplemental report to the 2009 annual homeless assessment report to Congress. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development; US Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans.

  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2011). Service-Connected Disabilities. Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors Retrieved March 14, 2012, from http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/benefits_book/benefits_chap02.asp.

  • Washington, D. L., Yano, E. M., McGuire, J. F., Hines, V., Lee, M., & Gelberg, L. (2010). Risk factors for homelessness among women veterans. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21, 81–91.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wenzel, S. L., Audrey Burnam, M., Koegel, P., Morton, S. C., Miu, A., Jinnett, K. J., et al. (2001). Access to inpatient or residential substance abuse treatment among homeless adults with alcohol or other drug use disorders. Medical Care, 39(11), 1158–1169.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Westat, & Department of Veterans Affairs. (2010). National Survey of Veterans, Active Duty Service Members, Demobilized National Guard and Reserve Members, Family Members, and Surviving Spouses. Rockville, Maryland: Westat and Department of Veterans Affairs.

  • Winkleby, M. A., & Fleshin, D. (1993). Physical, addictive, and psychiatric disorders among homeless veterans and nonveterans. Public Health Reports, 106(1), 30–36.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. VA New England Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center, 950 Campbell Ave., 151D, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA

    Jack Tsai, Robert H. Pietrzak & Robert A. Rosenheck

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Jack Tsai, Robert H. Pietrzak & Robert A. Rosenheck

  3. Clinical Neurosciences Division, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA

    Robert H. Pietrzak

  4. Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA

    Robert A. Rosenheck

Authors
  1. Jack Tsai
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Robert H. Pietrzak
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Robert A. Rosenheck
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jack Tsai.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Tsai, J., Pietrzak, R.H. & Rosenheck, R.A. Homeless Veterans Who Served in Iraq and Afghanistan: Gender Differences, Combat Exposure, and Comparisons with Previous Cohorts of Homeless Veterans. Adm Policy Ment Health 40, 400–405 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-012-0431-y

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-012-0431-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation