Discriminant analyses of willingness to talk with a counselor and most difficult issues in the experience of unsheltered homeless men: Self-actualization, loneliness, and depression

Psychological Reports

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 659-672

  Sumerlin, John R ^a  

^a Cordova Counseling Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030113346     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.659     Document Type: Article

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