Adverse childhood experiences: Are they risk factors for adult homelessness?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-255

  Herman, Daniel B ^a,b,c   Susser, Ezra S ^a,b   Struening, Elmer L ^a,b   Link, Bruce L ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c DSW   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEGLECT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ABUSE;

EID: 0030899389     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.2.249     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Link B, Susser E, Stueve A, Phelan J, Moore R, Struening E. Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:1907-1912.
2. Jahiel R. The size of the homeless population. In: Jahiel R, ed. Homelessness: A Prevention-Oriented Approach. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1992.
3. Burt M, Cohen B. America's Homeless: Numbers, Characteristics, and Programs That Serve Them. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press; 1989.
4. Rossi P. Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press; 1989.
5. Susser E, Moore R, Link B. Risk factors for homelessness. Am J Epideimol. 1993;15: 546-556.
6. Brown G, Harris T. The Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorder in Women. London, England: Tavistock Publications; 1978.
7. Harris T, Brown G, Bifulco A. Loss of parent in childhood and adult psychiatric disorder: a tentative overall model. Dev Psychopathol. 1990;2:311-328.
8. Bifulco A, Brown G, Adler Z. Early sexual abuse and clinical depression in adult life. Br J Psychiatry. 1991;159:115-122.
9. Bryer J, Nelson B, Miller J, Krol P. Childhood sexual and physical abuse as factors in adult psychiatric illness. Am J Psychiatry, 1987;144:1426-1430.
10. McLeod J. Childhood parental loss and adult depression. J Health Soc Behav. 1991;32:205-220.
11. Rutter M. Maternal Deprivation Reassessed. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin; 1981.
12. Straus M, Kantor G. Corporal punishment of adolescents by parents: a risk factor in the epidemiology of depression, suicide, alcohol abuse, child abuse, and wife beating. Adolescence. 1994;29:543-561.
13. Finkelhor D, Araji S, Baron L, Browne A, Peters S, Wyatt G. A Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse. Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publications; 1986.
14. Susser E, Struening E, Conover S. Childhood experiences of homeless men. Am J Psychiatry. 1987;144:1599-1601.
15. Susser E, Lin S, Conover S, Struening E. Childhood antecedents of homelessness in psychiatric patients. Am J Psychiatry. 1991;148:1026-1030.
16. Herman D, Susser E, Struening E. Childhood out-of-home care and current depressive symptoms among homeless adults. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:1849-1851.
17. Piliavin I, Sosin M, Westerfelt A, Matsueda R. The duration of homeless careers: an exploratory study. Soc Serv Rev. 1993;67: 576-598.
18. Sosin M, Colson P, Grossman S. Homelessness in Chicago: Poverty, Pathology, Social Institutions and Social Change. Chicago, Ill: Chicago Community Trust; 1988.
19. Sosin M, Piliavin I, Westerfelt H. Toward a longitudinal analysis of homelessness. J Soc Issues. 1990;46:157-174.
20. Winkleby M, Rockhill B, Jatulis D, Fortmann S. The medical origins of homelessness. Am J Public Health. 1992;82:1394-1398.
21. Koegel P, Melamid E, Burnam MA. Childhood risk factors for homelessness among homeless adults. Am J Public Health. 1995;85:1642-1649.
22. Rosenheck R, Fontana A. A model of homelessness among male veterans of the Vietnam War generation. Am J Psychiatry. 1994;151:421-427.
23. Link B, Phelan J, Bresnahan M, Stueve A, Moore R, Susser E. Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States: new evidence on an old debate. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1995;65: 347-354.
24. Bifulco A, Brown G, Harris T. Childhood loss of parent, lack of adequate patental care and adult depression: a replication. J Affect Disord. 1987;12:115-128.
25. Bifulco A, Harris T, Brown G. Mourning or early inadequate care? Reexamining the relationship of maternal loss in childhood with adult depression and anxiety. Dev Psychopathol. 1992;4:433-449.
26. Brown G, Moran P. Clinical and psychosocial origins of chronic depressive episodes, I: a community survey. Br J Psychiatry. 1994;165:447-456.
27. Harris T, Brown G, Bifulco A. Loss of parent in childhood and adult psychiatric disorder: the role of lack of adequate parental care. Psychol Med 1986;16:641-659.
28. Bifulco A, Brown G, Harris T. Childhood experience of care and abuse (CECA): a retrospective interview measure. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1994;35:1419-1435.
29. Fleiss J. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc; 1981.
30. Terrie WE, Nam CB. 1990 and 1980 Nam-Powers-Terrie Occupational Status Scores. Tallahassee, Fla: Florida State University, Center for the Study of Population; 1994. Working Paper Series 94-118.
31. Radloff L. The CES-D scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Appl Psychol Meas. 1977;1: 385-401.
32. Brewin C, Andrews B, Gotlib I. Psychopathology and early experience: a reappraisal of retrospective reports. Psychol Bull. 1993;113:82-98.
33. Shah B, Barnwell B, Hunt P, LaVange L. SUDAAN User's Manual: Professional Software for Survey Data Analysis for Multi-Stage Sample Designs, Release 6,0. Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute; 1992.
34. Wauchope B, Straus M. Physical punishment and physical abuse of American children: incidence rates by age, gender, and occupational class. In: Straus M. Gelles R, eds. Physical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8415 Families. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers; 1990.
35. Siegel JM, Sorenson SB, Golding JM, Burnam MA, Stein JA. The prevalence of childhood sexual assault. Am J Epidemiol. 1987;126:1141-1153.
36. Wolfner GD, Gelles RJ. A profile of violence toward children: a national study. Child Abuse Negl. 1993;17:197-212.
37. Koegel P, Bumam MA. Getting nowhere: homeless people, aimless policy, In: Steinberg J, Lyon D, Vaiana M, eds. Urban America - Policy Choices for Los Angeles and the Nation. Santa Monica, Calif: RAND Corp; 1992.
38. Snow DA, Anderson L. Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press; 1993.
39. Zuravin SJ. Research definitions of child physical abuse and neglect: current problems. In: Starr RH Jr, Wolfe DA, eds. The Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect: Issues and Research. New York, NY: Guilford Press; 1991.
40. Salter AC. Epidemiology of child sexual abuse. In: O'Donahue W, Geer JH, eds. The Sexual Abuse of Children: Theory and Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawerence Erlbaum Associates; 1992.
41. Burnam M, Stein J, Golding J, et al. Sexual assault and mental disorders in a community population. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1988;56:843-850.
42. Kessler R, Magee W. Childhood adversities and adult depression: basic patterns of association in a US national survey. Psychol Med. 1993;23:673-690.
43. Kendler K, Kessler R, Neale M, Heath A, Eaves L. The prediction of major depression in women: toward an integrated etiologic model. Am J Psychiatry. 1993;150: 1139-1148.