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Steen S, Sulkowski M. The Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model: Providing Social Support for Homeless Students* in School Settings. Int J Group Psychother 2024; 74:245-267. [PMID: 38656886 DOI: 10.1080/00207284.2024.2338289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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The Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model is discussed to support homeless students' unique and complex needs. The phenomenology of student homelessness is reviewed, as well as how residential and environmental instability negatively impacts students' academic and psychosocial functioning. Social support for homeless students is also discussed. Next, the ASE group model is described in detail and existing research on its application in school settings is reviewed. Implications for research and practice are provided as they may influence future efforts to support homeless students. Session examples are used to help school personnel apply the ASE model in their respective schools and communities.
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Mulvey MF, Herbers JE, Jennings KJ, Goran R, Knight AC. Infant fearful distress, parent intrusiveness, and adversity in families experiencing homelessness. Infant Behav Dev 2023; 73:101891. [PMID: 37827010 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Infants experiencing homelessness face risk for developing mental health problems in the future. Parents residing in shelters experience adverse events at elevated rates compared to non-homeless individuals, which can impact their infants during a time of rapid development depending on how the parent copes. For some, trauma linked to these events may manifest in an intrusive parenting style that interferes with the child's developing capacity for self-regulation. We utilized a sample of 60 parent-infant dyads recruited while residing in emergency homeless shelters to evaluate associations among parents' history of adversity, intrusive parenting behaviors, and infants' fearful distress. Observed parent intrusiveness during a free play interaction was significantly associated with infant fearfulness observed in a separate behavioral task during which infants viewed a series of masks. Furthermore, there was a moderating effect for parent history of adversity such that the association between parent intrusiveness and infant fearful distress was stronger among parents with more past experiences of adversity.
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- Marissa F Mulvey
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University, USA.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University, USA
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Herbers JE, DeCandia CJ, Volk KT, Unick GJ. Profiles and Predictors of Neurodevelopmental Functioning among Young Children Experiencing Family Homelessness. EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY 2023; 65:407-416. [PMID: 37635734 PMCID: PMC10449385 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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In the context of family homelessness, children experience acute adversities related to loss of housing and residential mobility compounded with more chronic, poverty-related adversities and stressors. Among children in families experiencing homelessness, variability in experiences and outcomes warrant person-centered approaches to better delineate patterns of risk and resilience. Using latent profile analysis as a person-centered approach, we identified five distinct profiles of neurodevelopmental functioning within a sample of 231 children (ages 3-5 years old) staying in emergency homeless shelters with their families. Latent profiles were informed by indicators from parent-reported items for ten different domains of neurodevelopmental functioning. We examined whether demographic and ecological factors including age, ethnicity, adverse childhood experiences, parent mental health, and overreactive parenting would predict profile membership. Overall, half of the children in the sample demonstrated a profile of resilient functioning across developmental domains. Profiles of maladaptive functioning differed in areas of strength and challenge, with a small percentage of children showing poor functioning across all domains. Children whose parents had more mental health problems or overreactive parenting were significantly more likely to show profiles of poor functioning than to show resilient functioning. Implications for future research, practice, and policy are discussed.
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- Janette E Herbers
- Villanova University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova, PA, USA
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- University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Palmer AR, Piescher K, Berry D, Dupuis D, Heinz-Amborn B, Masten AS. Reprint of: Homelessness and child protection involvement: Temporal links and risks to student attendance and school mobility. CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT 2023; 139:106156. [PMID: 36990920 DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 10/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND The experience of homelessness and child protection involvement pose risks to children's school success. Elucidating processes by which these interrelated systems affect child well-being is important for guiding policy and practice. OBJECTIVE This study examines the temporal relation between emergency shelter or transitional housing use and child protection involvement among school-aged children. We evaluated effects of both risk indicators on school attendance and school mobility. PARTICIPANT AND SETTING Using integrated administrative data, we identified 3278 children (ages 4 to 15) whose families used emergency or transitional housing in Hennepin and Ramsey County of Minnesota during the 2014 and 2015 academic years. A propensity-score-matched comparison group of 2613 children who did not use emergency or transitional housing. METHOD Through a series of logistic regressions and generalized estimating equations, we tested the temporal associations of emergency/transitional housing and child protection involvement as well as how both experiences affected school attendance and mobility. RESULTS Experiences of emergency or transitional housing often proceeded or occurred concurrently with child protection involvement and increased the likelihood of child protection services. Emergency or transitional housing and child protection involvement posed risks for lower school attendance and greater school mobility. CONCLUSIONS A multisystem approach to assist families across social services may be important for stabilizing children's housing and bolstering their success at school. A two-generation approach focused on residential and school stability and enhancing family resources could boost adaptive success of family members across contexts.
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- Alyssa R Palmer
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America.
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- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America
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- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America
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- Institute for Community Alliances, Homeless Management Information System, United States of America
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- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America
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Moore H, Astor RA, Capp G. Districts' and schools' role in identifying and providing services for homeless students: Nested ecological case studies in school districts with high- and low-socioeconomic status. JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2023; 51:1124-1148. [PMID: 36037182 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Even though homeless students are nested in schools and districts with different socioeconomic status (SES) contexts, little is known about the role of schools and districts for homeless students in these differing contexts. This comparative case study explored the identification, service provision, and school experience of homeless students in high- and low-SES districts. Mixed-methods case study methodology was used to compare two school districts and their four elementary and middle schools in California. The districts differed based on their SES: low to medium versus high. Findings show that despite differences in the SES context, both districts were underidentifying homeless students. Hence, both districts were underserving and lacking awareness of homeless students that were not identified. However, the low-SES district had far greater poverty awareness and, subsequently, an existing organizational structure than the high-SES district to support identified homeless students. Poverty awareness and districts' organizational structure are important contextual factors to consider in designing local and tailored interventions and services for homeless students.
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- Hadass Moore
- The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Luskin School of Public Affairs, School of Education and Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Social Work, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA
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Palmer AR, Piescher K, Berry D, Dupuis D, Heinz-Amborn B, Masten AS. Homelessness and child protection involvement: Temporal links and risks to student attendance and school mobility. CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT 2023; 135:105972. [PMID: 36463641 DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 10/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND The experience of homelessness and child protection involvement pose risks to children's school success. Elucidating processes by which these interrelated systems affect child well-being is important for guiding policy and practice. OBJECTIVE This study examines the temporal relation between emergency shelter or transitional housing use and child protection involvement among school-aged children. We evaluated effects of both risk indicators on school attendance and school mobility. PARTICIPANT AND SETTING Using integrated administrative data, we identified 3278 children (ages 4 to 15) whose families used emergency or transitional housing in Hennepin and Ramsey County of Minnesota during the 2014 and 2015 academic years. A propensity-score-matched comparison group of 2613 children who did not use emergency or transitional housing. METHOD Through a series of logistic regressions and generalized estimating equations, we tested the temporal associations of emergency/transitional housing and child protection involvement as well as how both experiences affected school attendance and mobility. RESULTS Experiences of emergency or transitional housing often proceeded or occurred concurrently with child protection involvement and increased the likelihood of child protection services. Emergency or transitional housing and child protection involvement posed risks for lower school attendance and greater school mobility. CONCLUSIONS A multisystem approach to assist families across social services may be important for stabilizing children's housing and bolstering their success at school. A two-generation approach focused on residential and school stability and enhancing family resources could boost adaptive success of family members across contexts.
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- Alyssa R Palmer
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America.
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- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America
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- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America
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- Institute for Community Alliances, Homeless Management Information System, United States of America
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- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America
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Mushonga DR, Uretsky MC, Rose BA, Henneberger AK. Linking homelessness in secondary school to postsecondary and early labor market outcomes in Maryland using a continuum of risk framework. APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2022.2156343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Testing the empirical integration of threat-deprivation and harshness-unpredictability dimensional models of adversity. Dev Psychopathol 2022; 34:513-526. [PMID: 35256038 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579422000013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Recent dimensional models of adversity informed by a neurobiological deficit framework highlights threat and deprivation as core dimensions, whereas models informed by an evolutionary, adaptational and functional framework calls attention to harshness and unpredictability. This report seeks to evaluate an integrative model of threat, deprivation, and unpredictability, drawing on the Fragile Families Study. Confirmatory factor analysis of presumed multiple indicators of each construct reveals an adequate three-factor structure of adversity. Theory-based targeted predictions of the developmental sequelae of each dimension also received empirical support, with deprivation linked to health problems and cognitive ability; threat linked to aggression; and unpredictability to substance use and sexual risk-taking. These findings lend credibility to utility of the three-dimensional integrative framework of adversity. It could thus inform development of dimensional measures of risk assessment and exploration of multidimensional adversity profiles, sensitive to individual differences in lived experiences, supporting patient-centered, strength-based approaches to services.
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Hatch E, Villagrana K, Wu Q, Lawler S, Ferguson K. Predictors of Secondary Completion Among Homeless Youth in Three U.S. Cities and the Potential Application of National Policies. CHILD & ADOLESCENT SOCIAL WORK JOURNAL : C & A 2022; 39:347-359. [PMID: 35440839 PMCID: PMC9010934 DOI: 10.1007/s10560-022-00826-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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PURPOSE Secondary education completion rates (i.e., high school diploma or General Education Development [GED]) among homeless youth (HY) are low in comparison with their housed peers. METHOD Secondary data with a sample of 429 HY was used from a 3-city study using quantitative retrospective interviews with a purposive sample of601 HY collected from 2010 to 2011 in social service organizations across three U.S. cities (Denver, CO, n = 201; Los Angeles, CA, n = 200; and Austin, TX,, n = 200). This study examines risk and resilience factors (i.e., demographics, childhood trauma, transience, mental health diagnosis, incarceration history, employment, and resilience) associated with the completion of secondary education among HY using logistic regression. RESULTS Secondary completion was positively associated with identifying as female, formal employment, a sense of equanimity, and experiences of childhood emotional abuse. In contrast, secondary completion was negatively associated with a history of incarceration as well as experiences of childhood physical neglect and emotional neglect. DISCUSSION Recommendations are made for strengthening educational institutions' capacity to provide the comprehensive support services for HY to minimize risk factors and enhance protective factors. Similarly, the authors highlight how cross-sector collaboration, such as those approaches supported through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act, can be leveraged to minimize significant risk factors and promote resilience factors associated with secondary completion.
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- Elizabeth Hatch
- School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Ave, 85004 Phoenix, AZ United States
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- School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Ave, 85004 Phoenix, AZ United States
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- School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Ave, 85004 Phoenix, AZ United States
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- School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Ave, 85004 Phoenix, AZ United States
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- School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Ave, 85004 Phoenix, AZ United States
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Hunsu NJ, Kehinde OJ, Oje AV, Yli-Piipari S. Single Versus Multiple Resilience Factors: An Investigation of the Dimensionality of the Academic Resilience Scale. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/07342829211056391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The Academic Resilience Scale (ARS) was developed to measure resilience factors in educational contexts. However, there is no clarity on whether the scale could be used as a measure of unidimensional academic resilience scores or just to obtain multidimensional academic resilience factors. How a scale is scored can affect the validity of inferences based on scores obtained by using the scale in research and practice. This study uses confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and ancillary bifactor measures to examine the dimensionality of the scale. There was no sufficient support for using the scale to obtain unidimensional academic resilience score. Rather, the scale should only be considered as a measure of multiple dimensions of academic resilience factors.
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- Department of Kinesiology, College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Noor MN, Bryant J, de Wit J, Holt M. Resourcefulness of homeless young people who practise sex work in Pakistan: a qualitative study. Sex Health 2021; 18:378-384. [PMID: 34634229 DOI: 10.1071/sh21024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Background Many homeless young people in Pakistan use sex work as a way to generate income, particularly if they have few other options for work. Because it is highly stigmatised, little attention has been paid to the strategies homeless young people use to practise sex work, and what this suggests about their capacities and strengths. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 homeless young people (aged 16-25years) from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, including nine cisgender heterosexual men, six cisgender heterosexual women, seven cisgender gay men, and seven transgender heterosexual women. Results Participants sought memberships in street-based peer groups where financial gains were contingent on dancing and sex work. To practise their work successfully, participants learned novel skills and mobilised material resources available to them on the streets. Participants talked about how they acquired and benefitted from skills related to beautification, dancing, communication, and sexual services to achieve the necessary standards for entertainment and sex work. Access to material resources like makeup, clothes, rented rooms, mobile phones and condoms made dancing and sex work possible and safer for participants. Conclusions Participants' improvisation with limited resources on the streets has important implications for policy and programs. Showcasing the resourcefulness and capacities of young people encourages a different way of thinking about them. This potential could be utilised in productive ways if they were given the chance to receive mainstream and technical education, better health support and access to the formal job market.
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- Muhammad Naveed Noor
- Centre for Social Research in Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Social Research in Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Social Research in Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Nourazari S, Lovato K, Weng SS. Making the Case for Proactive Strategies to Alleviate Homelessness: A Systems Approach. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:ijerph18020526. [PMID: 33435221 PMCID: PMC7826545 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18020526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Homelessness is a complex public health issue that affects some of the most vulnerable populations in the United States. This study takes a holistic approach to better understand and analyze the multiple factors and their interconnections that contribute to the complexity of this problem. A systems analysis was conducted by utilizing the system dynamics method, which allows analyzing and comparing trends and behavior of system outcomes for different "what if" scenarios, interventions, and policy implications. Three leverage points were identified in this study to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the current strategies to address homelessness: (1) increasing the number of affordable permanent housing units, (2) increasing the utilization of transitional housing units or shelters by the individuals experiencing homelessness, and (3) providing preventative services to at-risk populations before the onset of homelessness. Our results demonstrate that the most effective strategy is an amalgam of the solutions identified by these three leverage points. In addition, a policy analysis was conducted to study and estimate the effectiveness of various potential scenarios. This research provides data-driven and model-based insights into how decision-makers can utilize a systems approach to analyze new policy implications and create effective solutions to homelessness.
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- Sara Nourazari
- Health Care Administration Department, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA
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- School of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA; (K.L.); (S.S.W.)
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- School of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA; (K.L.); (S.S.W.)
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Dinnen HL, Baker J, Dallal R, Brann K, Flaspohler PD. An exploration of school mobility: Risks and protective factors in late elementary. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pits.22393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Department of Psychology Miami University Oxford Ohio
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- Department of Educational Psychology Miami University Oxford Ohio
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- Department of Educational Psychology Miami University Oxford Ohio
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Herbers JE, Cutuli JJ, Keane JN, Leonard JA. Childhood homelessness, resilience, and adolescent mental health: A prospective, person-centered approach. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS 2020; 57:1830-1844. [PMID: 33424042 PMCID: PMC7792983 DOI: 10.1002/pits.22331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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School districts and other service providers are increasingly aware of the substantial mental health needs of students experiencing family homelessness. Past findings are mixed regarding whether homelessness conveys unique risk beyond the risks associated with extreme poverty. With prospective longitudinal data on homelessness experiences across childhood, we utilized latent profile analysis as a person-centered approach to conceptualizing mental health outcomes in adolescence for 3,778 youth. We considered literal family homelessness as well as families living doubled-up, and we employed propensity score matching to identify a comparison group of non-homeless students balanced across a range of covariates to address systematic bias. Results indicated that students who experienced literal homelessness during childhood were significantly less likely to demonstrate profiles of resilience in mental health functioning. We considered our approach and findings in light of challenges and opportunities particularly relevant to the school context.
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Aceves L, Griffin AM, Sulkowski ML, Martinez G, Knapp KS, Bámaca-Colbert MY, Cleveland HH. The Affective Lives of Doubled-Up Latinx Youth: Influences of School Experiences, Familism, and Ethnic Identity Exploration. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS 2020; 57:1878-1895. [PMID: 33162615 PMCID: PMC7641337 DOI: 10.1002/pits.22391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Doubled-up Latinx youth experience many daily challenges associated with ethnic minority status and residential instability. Doubled-up youth share housing with non-custodial caregivers such as friends and/or extended family members primarily because of economic hardship and a breakdown in available parental support. Using data from baseline and 10 days of twice-a-day surveys, this study examined how in-school positive experiences, familism (i.e., a perspective that gives precedence to the family), and ethnic identity (i.e. affirmation, exploration, and resolution) influence after school positive (e.g. feeling joyful/happy) and negative (e.g., feeling stressed/anxious) affect among doubled up Latinx youth (70% female; M age = 16.5). Results indicate that in-school positive experiences were associated with more after school positive affect and less after school negative affect. Additionally, youth with higher levels of familism reported experiencing less after school negative affect. However, gender moderated the relation of ethnic identity exploration and experiences of after school positive affect. Specifically, females with higher levels of ethnic identity exploration reported relatively lower levels of after school positive affect compared to males. Overall, study findings highlight the importance of both person-level and varying contextual influences on the affective lives of doubled-up Latinx youth.
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Thayer AJ, Weeks MR, Cook CR. Dual factor mental health model: Validation through mixture modeling and cut scores. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pits.22447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- Andrew J. Thayer
- Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minnesota USA
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- Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minnesota USA
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- Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minnesota USA
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- Alexandra Ernst
- Research and Evaluation Group, Public Health Management Corporation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 423291 Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 6548 Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Sulkowski ML, Michael KD. Introduction to the special issue: School and life experiences of highly mobile students: Phenomenology, risk, and resilience. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pits.22445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Michael L. Sulkowski
- Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies University of Arizona Tucson Arizona USA
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- Department of Psychology Appalachian State University Boone North Carolina USA
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Palmer AR, Labella M, Plowman EJ, Foster R, Masten AS. Parental emotion regulation strategies and parenting quality predict child internalizing symptoms in families experiencing homelessness. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 2020; 29:732-749. [DOI: 10.1111/sode.12435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Alyssa R. Palmer
- Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
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- Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
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- Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
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- Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
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Lafavor T, Langworthy SE, Persaud S, Kalstabakken AW. The Relationship Between Parent and Teacher Perceptions and the Academic Success of Homeless Youth. CHILD & YOUTH CARE FORUM 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10566-019-09538-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Berry D, Palmer AR, Distefano R, Masten AS. Autonomic complexity and emotion (dys-)regulation in early childhood across high- and low-risk contexts. Dev Psychopathol 2019; 31:1173-1190. [PMID: 31290736 PMCID: PMC6790229 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579419000683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Developing the ability to regulate one's emotions in accordance with contextual demands (i.e., emotion regulation) is a central developmental task of early childhood. These processes are supported by the engagement of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), a physiological hub of a vast network tasked with dynamically integrating real-time experiential inputs with internal motivational and goal states. To date, much of what is known about the ANS and emotion regulation has been based on measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia, a cardiac indicator of parasympathetic activity. In the present study, we draw from dynamical systems models to introduce two nonlinear indices of cardiac complexity (fractality and sample entropy) as potential indicators of these broader ANS dynamics. Using data from a stratified sample of preschoolers living in high- (i.e., emergency homeless shelter) and low-risk contexts (N = 115), we show that, in conjunction with respiratory sinus arrhythmia, these nonlinear indices may help to clarify important differences in the behavioral manifestations of emotion regulation. In particular, our results suggest that cardiac complexity may be especially useful for discerning active, effortful emotion regulation from less effortful regulation and dysregulation.
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- Daniel Berry
- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA
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- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA
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- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA
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- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA
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Masten AS, Barnes AJ. Resilience in Children: Developmental Perspectives. CHILDREN (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2018; 5:E98. [PMID: 30018217 PMCID: PMC6069421 DOI: 10.3390/children5070098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Advances in developmental resilience science are highlighted with commentary on implications for pediatric systems that aspire to promote healthy development over the life course. Resilience science is surging along with growing concerns about the consequences of adverse childhood experiences on lifelong development. Resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to adapt successfully to challenges that threaten the function, survival, or future development of the system. This definition is scalable across system levels and across disciplines, applicable to resilience in a person, a family, a health care system, a community, an economy, or other systems. Robust findings on resilience in childhood underscore the importance of exposure dose; fundamental adaptive systems embedded in the lives of individuals and their interactions with other systems; developmental timing; and the crucial role of healthcare practitioners and educators as well as family caregivers in nurturing resilience on the "front lines" of lived childhood experience. Resilience science suggests that human resilience is common, dynamic, generated through myriad interactions of multiple systems from the biological to the sociocultural, and mutable given strategic targeting and timing. Implications for pediatric practice and training are discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ann S Masten
- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Sulkowski ML. THE STUDENT HOMELESSNESS CRISIS AND THE ROLE OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES, ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/pits.21936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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