Capacity for survival: Exploring strengths of homeless street youth

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-42

  Bender, Kimberly ^a   Thompson, Sanna J ^a   McManus, Holly ^a   Lantry, Janet ^a   Flynn, Patrick M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping skills; Homeless youth; Resiliency; Street youth; Strengths based

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847364092     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-006-9029-4     Document Type: Article

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