Runaway and Homeless Youth New Research and Clinical Perspectives
This straightforward reference surveys the knowledge base on homeless, runaway, and thrown-away children and adolescents and makes concrete recommendations for policy and practice. The book’s ecological approach grounds readers in the demographics of this
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Runaway and Homeless Youth New Research and Clinical Perspectives
Runaway and Homeless Youth
Stephen J. Morewitz
Runaway and Homeless Youth New Research and Clinical Perspectives
Stephen J. Morewitz Nursing and Health Sciences California State University, East Bay Hayward, CA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-30861-6 ISBN 978-3-319-30863-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30863-0
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Preface
Runaway and Homeless Youth: New Research and Clinical Perspectives analyzes up-to-date research about runaway and homeless youth based on results from the national Runaway Youth Project (RYP), which is part of the larger Missing Persons Project (MPP) (see Appendix A). This book uses social sciences theories to explain why children and adolescents run away and become victimized. This work focuses on an ecological theory approach to explain the ways in which individual, social, peer, family, and school factors increase the risk or protect against youth running away from home. This book also offers new insights about the social and behavioral profiles of runaway and homeless children and adolescents when they go missing and live on the streets. Chapter 1 describes the experiences of children and adolescents who run away from home or become homeless for other reasons. This chapter examines why youth who are disconnected from their family, peers, classmates, and teachers may be at increased risk of running away from home. Chapter 1 evaluates the extent to which child sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and neglect, domestic violence, school difficulties, and peer problems are determinants of running away from home. In Chap. 2, the process of eloping from substitute care such as foster care is assessed. This
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