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Homeless children : problems and needs / edited by Panos Vostanis and Stuart Cumella.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless children.
- Homeless children--Great Britain.
- Homeless children--Services for--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 202 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An increasing number of families are becoming homeless, often as a result of domestic violence, which leaves women and their school age children without homes. This multidisciplinary volume is the first to look at the variety of problems encountered by this group and to propose strategies for managing those problems.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Homeless Children: Problems and Needs
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Homeless Families
- 3. Health Problems of Homeless Children
- 4. Child Mental Health Problems
- 5. Parenting Issues in Homeless Families
- 6. Homeless Children and Domestic Violence
- 7. Homeless Adolescents
- 8. Effects of Changes in Housing Legislation
- 9. The Impact of Health and Social Services
- 10. Homeless Children: Public Health Perspectives
- 11. Doubly Disadvantaged: Education and the Homeless Child
- 12. Access to Voluntary Sector Agencies
- 13. Family Homelessness in the USA
- 14. Responding to Family Homelessness
- List of Contributors
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781846422591
- 1846422590
- 9781417504602
- 1417504609
- OCLC:
- 923646545
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