Parenting, Parental Mental Health, and Child Functioning in Families Residing in Supportive Housing - FREE Access
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FREE Access to Full Text: This article was featured in the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness", guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Research shows that parents living in supportive housing who scored high on measures of positive parenting practices had children who rated high on measures of resilience and emotional and behavioral issues.
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Long-term homelessness is associated with other psychosocial risk factors (e.g., adult mental illness, substance abuse, and exposure to violence). All of these factors are associated with impairments in parenting effectiveness and child adjustment, but the rear every limited data investigating parenting among families who are homeless and highly mobile. In particular, there is no literature examining the relationships among observed parenting, parental mental health, and child adjustment in a supportive housing sample. Data are reported from a multi-method study of 200 children in 127 families residing in supportive housing agencies in a large metro area. Observed parenting and parents’ mental health symptoms directly affected children’s adjustment. The influence of parenting self-efficacy on children’s adjustment was mediated through its impact on observed parenting. However, observed parenting did not mediate the relationship between parental mental health and child adjustment. Implications for research and practice with homeless populations are offered. (authors)
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Type of Resource:
Journal
Publication Date:
2009
Volume:
79
Issue:
3
Pages:
336 - 347
Location:
Washington, DC
Phone:
800-374-2721