Pet Ownership Among Homeless Youth: Associations with Mental Health, Service Utilization and Housing Status

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 237-244

  Rhoades, Harmony ^a   Winetrobe, Hailey ^a   Rice, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeless youth; Mental health; Pets; Service utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PET ANIMAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HOUSING; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PETS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 84939879554     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: 15733327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-014-0463-5     Document Type: Article

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