Becoming homeless, being homeless, and Resolving homelessness among women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 461-469

  Finfgeld Connett, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD REARING; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD REARING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL WORK; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953197733     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840903586404     Document Type: Article

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