Family Homelessness: A Deepening Crisis in Urban Communities

The recent national economic recession has exposed the increasing vulnerability of families living in poverty to the effects of housing instability. Mental health clinicians once considered homelessness to be the unfortunate domain of the severely and persistently mentally ill single adult. We must...

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Published inJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 53; no. 12; pp. 1247 - 1250
Main Authors Biel, Matthew G., MD, MSc, Gilhuly, Devin K., BA, Wilcox, Natalie A., BA, Jacobstein, Diane, PhD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Maryland Heights, MO Elsevier Inc 01.12.2014
Elsevier
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Families & family life
Family
Family environment. Family history
Homeless people
Homeless Persons - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental disorders
Pediatrics
Poverty
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Recessions
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
United States
Urban areas
Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
United States
North America
America
United States > US
Social environment
Human
Prevention
Homeless
Urban environment
Family environment
Review
Operation
Child
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Summary:The recent national economic recession has exposed the increasing vulnerability of families living in poverty to the effects of housing instability. Mental health clinicians once considered homelessness to be the unfortunate domain of the severely and persistently mentally ill single adult. We must now recognize this social condition's burgeoning impact on families and children. This year, approximately 1.6 million children in the United States will experience homelessness, and families currently comprise more than one third of the total homeless population.
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ISSN:0890-8567
1527-5418
DOI:10.1016/j.jaac.2014.08.015