What have you learned from your homeless experience? A phenomenological approach for counseling unsheltered homeless men

Psychological Reports

Volumn 79, Issue 3 PART 1, 1996, Pages 883-890

  Sumerlin, John R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; COUNSELING; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COUNSELING; FLORIDA; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0030339053     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3.883     Document Type: Article

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