No Place Called Home: Life Quality and Purpose of Homeless Youths

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 207-226

  Bearsley, Cate ^b   Cummins, Robert A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Homelessness; Quality of life; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004613097     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021340020431     Document Type: Article

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