Making it on the streets in Bogotá: a psychosocial study of street youth.
In this study, we investigated the perceptions of the life situations, experiences, psychosocial characteristics, and environments of 94 street youth in Bogotá, Columbia. We outlined the implications of our results for developmental theory, psychosocial competence theory, future research, public policy formation, program development, and direct intervention.
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Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003105:Colombia; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011640:Public Policy; D012924:Social Conditions