Homelessness and health: challenges for health psychology.
Homelessness can be seen as a challenge for health psychology in research and practice on several levels: analysing the risks of becoming homeless; the living conditions of being homeless and their impact on health risks and problems; homeless youth as a specific phenomenon; health problems in the context of homelessness; service utilization and barriers and effects of interventions in the context of homelessness. With these levels, a framework is outlined for the contributions to this Special Issue. In the end, homelessness is discussed as an issue for prevention in three respects for a comprehensive approach in health psychology.
Flick
Uwe
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Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. flick@asfh-berlin.de
D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social; D018570:Risk Assessment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*