Editors:
Examines mental health, educational, and developmental challenges of homeless families
Explores assessment of functioning across domains and time
Describes how to leverage individual strengths of parents and children
Discusses innovative service delivery approaches to address the unique needs of this population
Highlights the most critical challenges in addressing the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness
Part of the book series: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice (ACFPP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Featured topics include:
- Promoting positive parenting among homeless families.
- Innovative intervention, assessment, and service delivery models.
- Homeless children and early childhood care and education systems.
- Early Risers intervention & Community Action Targeting Children who are Homeless Project (Project CATCH).
Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness is an essential resource for policy makers and related professionals and for graduate students and researchers in developmental, clinical, and school psychology; child, youth and family policy; public health; and social work.
Keywords
- Child executive functioning and homelessness
- Children’s mental health and homelessness
- Cognitive functioning and family homelessness
- Community response to family homelessness
- Depression and family homelessness
- Early childhood services and homelessness
- Early Risers intervention and family homelessness
- Emergency housing for homeless families
- Externalizing disorders and homeless children
- Families and homelessness
- Interagency collaboration on homelessness
- Internalizing disorders and homeless children
- Mental health, adaptation, and homeless families
- Parenting and homelessness
- Parenting warmth and homelessness
- Physical health and family homelessness
- Policy implications and family homelessness
- Positive parenting and homelessness
- Psychosocial interventions and homelessness
- Traumatic stress and homeless families
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Mary E. Haskett
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness
Book Subtitle: Integrating Research into Practice and Policy
Editors: Mary E. Haskett
Series Title: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50886-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50885-6Published: 17 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50886-3Published: 08 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2625-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 116
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Public Health