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(Source: Journal of Community Psychology)
Source: Journal of Community Psychology - June 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Waiting for shelter: Perspectives on a homeless shelter's procedures
This study used qualitative methods to understand the experiences of shelter seekers who were on a shelter waitlist (N = 59), including individuals who entered the shelter from the waitlist, and those removed from the shelter waitlist for procedural reasons. The average waitlist time was nearly 3 weeks, and 22.0% stayed at least one night on the street or another public place while on the waitlist. Responses to open‐ended questions regarding barriers and effectiveness of the shelter referral procedures revealed 4 themes: procedural challenges, procedural benefits, benefits of the temporary stay, and communication challen...
Source: Journal of Community Psychology - May 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Molly Brown, Martina Mihelicova, Jennifer Lyons, Jennifer DeFonzo, Samantha Torello, Andr és Carrión, Allison N. Ponce Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Place ‐based loss and resilience among disaster‐affected youth
Abstract
As research on young people's disaster experiences is accumulating, one important yet understudied factor underlying their vulnerability and resilience is their connection to certain places. Youth affected by the 2013 floods in Southern Alberta, Canada, provided photographs of places important to their flood experiences and engaged in peer‐to‐peer interviews to discuss place loss and place‐based strength. Damaged or changed places disrupted youth's reliance on place for activities, resources, social ties, sense of continuity, and a connection to the past. Places provided strength when they offered escape fro...
Source: Journal of Community Psychology - May 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leila Scannell, Robin S. Cox, Sarah Fletcher Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Toxic trauma: Household water quality experiences predict posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during the Flint, Michigan, water crisis
We examined the relationship between perceptions of household tap water quality and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms during the Flint, Michigan, water crisis in 2015–2016. The Speak to Your Health Community Survey is a community‐based participatory component of the health surveillance system in Genesee County, Michigan. Perceptions of household tap water quality was added to the 2015–2016 survey wave after inadequate official response to concerns over water quality after a change in Flint's municipal water supply. Respondents (N = 786) also completed a brief PTSD screening tool. We examined the relations...
Source: Journal of Community Psychology - May 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel J. Kruger, Suzanne Cupal, Susan P. Franzen, Gergana Kodjebacheva, Elder Sarah Bailey, Kent D. Key, Martin M. Kaufman Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
What would your neighbor do? An experimental approach to the study of informal social control of intimate partner violence in South Korea
This study reports the effects of a new experimental approach to the study of informal social control of IPV by neighbors on a small population sample of 100 married men in Seoul, South Korea. We hypothesized that men randomly assigned to a high‐perceived informal social control condition would have lower self‐estimated likelihoods of IPV perpetration in response to a vignette. We also hypothesized that the effect of random assignment would be different for that portion of the sample that reported perpetration of family violence (IPV or child abuse). Compared to the nonperpetrating portion of the sample, perpetrators o...
Source: Journal of Community Psychology - May 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clifton R. Emery, Hyerin Yang, Oksoo Kim, Carmen Arenas, Andres Astray Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
