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Healing Hands: Homelessness & Family Trauma: The Case for Early Intervention

This edition of Healing Hands presents an overview of one of the most pressing issues confronting homeless families and clinicians that serve them — the effects of domestic violence, abuse and neglect on young children. The following articles discuss conditions under which clinical interventions are warranted and report strategies used by HCH practitioners to prevent […]

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Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness

Homeless people with cognitive impairments affecting thought, memory, speech, and/or psychosocial competence present some of the toughest challenges that clinicians face. Articles describe disabling brain disorders often seen in homeless individuals and specify effective case management strategies. Download Research (PDF)

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Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness

Homeless people with cognitive impairments affecting thought, memory, speech, and/or psychosocial competence present some of the toughest challenges that clinicians face. Indeed, too many choose to avoid these difficult clients altogether — an option that experienced homeless assistance providers find unacceptable. The following articles describe the complex tapestry of cognitive disabilities and homelessness, and specify

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Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness

Homeless people with cognitive impairments affecting thought, memory, speech, and/or psychosocial competence present some of the toughest challenges that clinicians face. Indeed, too many choose to avoid these difficult clients altogether — an option that experienced homeless assistance providers find unacceptable. The following articles describe the complex tapestry of cognitive disabilities and homelessness, and specify

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Healing Hands: Dealing with Disability: Physical Impairments and Homelessness

The included articles sketch the etiology and scope of physically disabling conditions frequently seen in people who are homeless, specify major obstacles they encounter, suggest what HCH providers can do to prevent or remove these barriers, and highlight special sensitivities that clinicians need to serve clients with disabilities effectively. Download Research (PDF)

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Healing Hands: Crossing to Safety: Transgender Health and Homelessness

Persons who identify with a gender that differs from the sex assigned to them at birth are at high risk for social isolation, physical and emotional trauma, chemical dependency, infectious disease, and discrimination limiting their access to employment, housing, and health care. Homelessness compounds these risks. The following articles were written to enhance understanding of

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Healing Hands: Paso a Paso: Step-by-Step Toward Cultural Competence

Achieving cultural competence — the ability to communicate effectively across different linguistic and cultural traditions — is necessarily a gradual process. For clinicians, this requires close examination of health-related attitudes and beliefs — their clients’ and their own. The following articles suggest some steps that homeless health care providers can take to begin the journey.

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Healing Hands: Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care

This issue of Healing Hands examines obstacles to health care encountered by people who first experience homelessness in small communities and remote rural areas of the United States. The following articles briefly explain the causes of rural homelessness and how unstably housed people in rural areas differ from their urban counterparts. In addition, they highlight

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