Parenting Adults Who Become Homeless: Variations in Stress and Social Support - FREE Access
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FREE Access to Full Text: This article was featured in the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness", guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Research shows that parents of adult children who are homeless require greater levels of social support to buffer this stress.
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This article focuses on the stressors of parenting an adult child who experiences homelessness. Parents whose adult children become homeless may provide support to this child, but they may also subsequently experience stress and require social support themselves. Findings from this study support the hypothesis that parents who spend more time or money helping their homeless adult offspring experience higher levels of stress. Results also show higher levels of stress among parents who helped with activities of daily living and among parents who worked to prevent harm involving their adult homeless offspring. Among 37 respondents, a majority of whom were African American mothers parenting homeless sons, parents who engaged in activities to prevent harm and parents who experienced stress from harm prevention received more extensive social support. Health and social service providers should recognize and respond to the financial, emotional, and temporal burdens of parenting an adult who becomes homeless. Service providers can both support people who become homeless and reinforce larger family systems, particularly in circumstances that involve more extensive parental support or more harmful situations. (Authors)
The Homelessness Resource Center is providing open access to the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness" published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Please take the time to read each of the articles within this special section (see "Related Items" to the right). You can earn 10 Continuing Education Credits by reading these articles and completing an examination. In addition to the article please find the Continuing Education Credits form attached.
Type of Resource:
Journal
Date Issued:
2009
Journal Name:
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Volume:
79
Issue:
3
Pages:
357 - 365
Location:
Washington, DC
Phone:
800-374-2721
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Obviously, it's a problem for anyone to be homeless, but if you have children, it's even worse. Most people know someone that their children can stay with, but what if you don't?
I know I'd lose a lot of sleep over this if I were in that situation.
Sarah
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