Clinical Practice

Healing Hands: Eliciting Behavior Change: Tools for HCH Clinicians

The following article summarizes currently recommended strategies for eliciting health-related behavior change which clinicians and their homeless clients are finding useful. Subsequent articles focus on the experience of individual practitioners in dealing with some of the most critical and persistent health problems their homeless patients face to which lifestyle modification is at least part of […]

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Healing Hands: Coping with Stress, Creating & Maintaining Hope

In this issue of Healing Hands, we examine the spiritual and psycho- logical roots of their ability to cope with stress while creating and maintaining hope for clients, colleagues and themselves. In the midst of year-end pressures, we conducted interviews with ten HCH clinicians, practicing in different regions of the United States, and representing a

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Abstract (full text available for purchase): Counting the Rural Homeless Population: Methodological Dilemmas |

One important product of this National Institute of Mental Health-funded study is the successful adaptation of methods for field research on homelessness in rural settings. This article identifies the design dilemmas and the process issues in rural studies that are applicable to social work research in rural environments. Download Research (PDF)

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Systems Alliance and Support (SAS): A Program of Intensive Case Management for Chronic Public Inebriates: Seattle

Authors: Cox GB, Meijer L, Carr DI, and Freng SA. Abstract: Systems Alliance and Support (SAS) is a long-term, intensive case management intervention suitable for severely disabled chronic alcoholics. These clients have long histories of alcohol abuse and of unsuccessful treatment for alcoholism, and for our subjects, long histories of homelessness, with a paucity of

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