Find Books
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Social work, housing, and homelessness
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2025This book examines how all types of housing have become precarious for many service users with whom social workers will engage and makes some suggestions regarding action and best practice. -
Supporting Families Experiencing Homelessness
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2013This book is an extremely welcome addition to the literature on homelessness, and the only one solely devoted to the needs of families and children. -
"The Transformation of Homeless Services"
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Location: Book Chapter Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021Permanency support, such as counseling and resources for accessing housing in tightening markets, has become better coordinated and often integrated into case management in the shelters and on the streets. And, by seeking out high-risk households, prevention efforts have held tenuous situations together. -
Clinical Management of the Homeless Patient Social, Psychiatric, and Medical Issues
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021 -
Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2005Today's practitioners recognize that empowering others is impossible; social workers can, however, assist others as they empower themselves.
Find Articles
The following articles are a selection of resources available through BU Libraries:
- "Reframing 'Dirty' Work:" the case of homeless shelter workers" by Julian Torelli and Anthony Puddephatt (2021). Available here.
- "Multiple Exclusion Homelessness: the preventative role of social work" by Jill Manthorpe et. al (2015). Available here.
- "More Than Four Walls and a Roof Needed: A Complex Tertiary Prevention Approach for Recently Homeless Youth" by Sean Kidd et. al (2019). Available here.
- "PTSD Symptoms, Vicarious Traumatization, and Burnout in Front Line Workers in the Homeless Sector" by Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff and Annette Lane (2019). Available here.
