Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Identifying possible sources
Before class on Thursday, please post a quick update on how searching for sources went for you during Tuesday's class. What questions do you still have about this assignment and the kinds of sources you need to find? How successful have you been so far in finding sources that will work for your focus? Last, identify the three most promising sources you've found so far that you think will be useful for your literature review essay. You can just list the author, article title and journal title for now. Please bring them with you to class on Thursday, as well.
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Searching for articles and the like has gone fairly well. It seems that most of my research will come from articles since there don't appear to be many books on transgendered homeless people.
ReplyDeleteHere are some articles I've found :
"WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GAYS IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER: MAKING HOMELESS YOUTH HOUSING SAFER FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH"
Hunter, Ernst 2008
"Transitioning Our Shelters: Making Homeless Shelters Safe for Transgender People."
Mottet, Lisa; Ohle, John
"Healthcare Needs of the Transgender Homeless Population."
Spicer, Shane S
My search for sources has been going well. I have mostly found articles but am also in the process of looking for book. I think that since there is not a huge amount of information on women homeless veterans that I will have to also use some sources about male homeless veterans.
ReplyDeleteHere's my top three thus far:
"Overrepresentation of Women Veterans Among Homeless Women"
Gamache, Gail. American Journal of Public Health
"A Study of Substance Abuse, Traumata, and Social Support Systems Among Homeless Veterans"
Benda, Brent. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
"Characteristics and experiences of homeless adults: A comparison of single men, single women, and women with children"
Roll, Carolyn N. Journal of Community Psychology
My search for sources has been going well. There are almost too many sources and sometimes I get caught up in all the information out there. Basically, there is plenty on children and homelessness, I just need to narrow it down.
ReplyDeleteI will narrow it down to the impact on children's mental health and educational advances ( or lack thereof).
I have mostly found articles.
My top three articles are :
"Homeless Children: Impact of School Attendance on Self-Esteem and Loneliness"
Timberlake, Elizabeth M, Social Work in Education.
Exploring the Dynamics of Teacher Perceptions of Homeless Children and Families during the Early Years.
Powers-Costello, Elizabeth, Early Childhood Education Journal.
Homeless Children and Youth at Risk: The Educational Impact of Displacement
Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Joseph Murphy
It looks like there has been plenty of research done in the area I'm looking to do my paper on. I guess it's really not surprising that with such a large population that Russia has a very large number of people experiencing homelessness as well. The three articles I think I will focus on for now are:
ReplyDelete"The Homeless and Neglected Children of Russia" by Aref'ev, A.L. from the Russian Social Science Review
"Sex work, drug use, HIV infection, and spread of sexually transmitted infections in Moscow, Russian Federation." by Shakarishvili, A. and several other authors published in the Lancet
"The Homeless as Objects of Social Discreditation." by Alekseeva, L.S. from the Sociological Research Journal
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ReplyDeleteTuesday’s class went very well in research, especially, from the help of Peggy. I’ll be focusing on education initiatives within the homeless community and ultimately, the welfare program. I think I’ve been fairly successful in finding sources that pertain to this top. However, I think any questions that I may have; they’ll come along as I begin my paper. The following are my most promising sources:
ReplyDelete• Homeless Children and Youth at Risk: The Educational Impact of Displacement
o Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk; Jan-Mar2011, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p38-55, 18p
o Murphy, Joseph
• Homeless Children and Their Families: Delivery of Educational and Social Services through School Systems.
o Wall, Jack C.
o Social Work in Education; Jul96, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p135-144, 10p
• Laboring to Learn
o Rivera, Lorna
o Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
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ReplyDeleteI have been able to find a good number of articles on my topic, which have led me in several different directions. I am interested in researching food choice/nutrition among the homeless, and based on what I have found I think it will make sense to focus on mothers and children. I found several articles on studies done in Minnesota on these topics that are very interesting, although I was not able to find similar studies done in other states, which would be nice. These articles are:
ReplyDeleteThe Impact of Homeless Shelters on Food Access and Choice Among Homeless Families in Minnesota.
Rickelle Richards MPH and Chery Smith PhD
Environmental, parental, and personal influences on food choice, access, and overweight status among homeless children.
Rickelle Richardsa, and Chery Smith
I also found some articles about attempts to better educate the homeless about nutrition:
Education in a Homeless Shelter to Improve the Nutrition of Young Children. Yvonne Yousey, Jacquelyn Leake, Melissa Wdowik, and Janice K. Janken. Public Health Nursing.
Nutrition Education for Homeless Women—Challenges and Opportunities: A Pilot Study. LESLEY J. JOHNSON. Journal of Foodservice Business Research.
The paradox of overweight homeless/low-income children is definitely interesting. I am also interested in homeless people and gardening as an alternative food source. Though I was able to find one article titled "The Importance of Community Gardening for Homeless Women" I was not able to access it; I put in a request through Penrose so maybe this will work. Kind of a subtopic but I am curious about it.
My research went alright in class on Tuesday although I unfortunately lost the articles I found on the library database. Fortunately, it should not be hard for me to retrieve them soon. I was able to find three books relevant to my topic.
ReplyDeleteProstitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling by Maggie O'Neill
Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders by Gerhard Falk
Helping Substance-Abusing Women of Vulnerable Populations: Effective Treatment Principles and Strategies by An-Pyng Sun
The first text should be the most helpful in my topic of the prostitution of homeless women/girls. The other two also have chapters devoted entirely to the topics of "homelessness" and "prostitution." From here I should easily be able to find more articles to more fully delve into my research.
The research for my topic, health care access for the homeless, is going okay. I haven't found a great amount of articles on the subject, but the ones I have found seem to be fairly recent and thoroughly conducted studies.
ReplyDeleteThe articles I have found so far include:
"The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: A Public Health Framework" by James O'Connell, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Christine Judge
"The Unmet Heatlh Care Needs of Homeless Adults: A National Study" by Travis Baggett and Daniel Singer
"Where Do People Go When They First Become Homeless? A Survey of Homeless Adults in the USA" by Thomas O'Toole, Alicia Conde-Martel, and Jeanette Gibbon
I have found that "The American Journal of Public Health" seems to have multiple articles related to my topic (including the articles "Unmet" and "Boston" listed above).
I have found a good amount of potential articles on my topic of bipolar disorder and homelessness, but I might branch out to all mental disorders because I have found lots of information about those and it is interesting to see if patterns emerge.
ReplyDeleteMy articles:
“Clinical and Demographic Factors Associated With Homelessness and Incarceration Among VA Patients With Bipolar Disorder.” By Copeland, Laurel A., Miller, Alexander L., Welsh, Deborah E., McCarthy, John F., Zeber, John E., Kilbourne, and Amy M. from the American Journal of Public Health; May2009, Vol. 99 Issue 5, p871-877, 7p, 4 Charts
“Fifteen per cent of people treated for mental health disorders are homeless.” By Hwang, Stephen from the Evidence-Based Mental Health; Nov2005, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p118-118, 1p
“Prevalence and Risk Factors for Homelessness and Utilization of Mental Health Services Among 10,340 Patients With Serious Mental Illness in a Large Public Mental Health System” by David P. Folsom, M.D., William Hawthorne, Ph.D., Laurie Lindamer, Ph.D., Todd Gilmer, Ph.D., Anne Bailey, M.S., Shahrokh Golshan, Ph.D., Piedad Garcia, Ed.D., Jürgen Unützer, M.D., Richard Hough, Ph.D., and Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. from the American Journal of Psychiatry.
That is a lot of people. I don’t know how I will cite that…
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ReplyDeleteMy questions are concerning APA formatting because I have only previously used MLA. I also need to continue to research in order to decide how to narrow down my subject, and if such narrowing is necessary. The sources are not difficult to find, but find deciphering the top choices has been difficult. I am trying to decide if I want to focus on teen homelessness being a result of violence in their households or just focus on the transition that teens face from adolescent homelessness to then adult homelessness.
ReplyDeleteTitle: A Transitional Living Program for Homeless Adolescents: A Case Study.
Authors: Giffords, Elissa; Alonso,Christina; Bell, Richard
Source: Child & Youth Care Forum; Aug2007, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p141-151, 11p, 2 Charts
Title: Abuse, Support, and Depression among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents.
Authors: Bao, Wan-Ning; Whitbeck, Les B; Hoyt, Dan R
Source: Journal of Health & Social Behavior; Dec2000, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p408-420, 13p, 1 Diagram, 3 Charts
Title: Abusive Family Backgrounds and Later Victimization Among Runaway and Homeless Adolescents.
Authors: Whitbeck, Les B; Hoyt, Danny R; Ackley, Kevin A
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence (Lawrence Erlbaum); 1997, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p375-392, 18p
Title: How Runaway and Homeless Youth Navigate Troubled Waters: The Role of Formal and Informal Helpers.
Authors: Kurtz, P. David; Lindsey, Elizabeth W; Jarvis, Sara; Nackerud, Larry
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ReplyDeleteSo far there has been a lot of literature on homeless youth, in particular LGBTIQ homeless youth. Obviously there is a lot of work into the circumstances and hardships LGBTIQ youth face in the struggle for their identity. What much of the work I found articulates is the stigma sexual orientation has and the impacts of such stigma. There seems to be very little literature on the prevalence of adult LGBTIQ homeless beyond those who have HIV/Aids or youth. The largest struggle I have experienced is avoiding dated studies that would have data sets that obviously have changed in growing and varying urban environments.
ReplyDeleteChallenges Faced by Homeless Sexual Minorities: Comparison of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Homeless Adolescents With Their Heterosexual Counterpart
Cochran, Bryan N., Stewart, Angela J., Ginzler, Joshua A., Cauce, Ana Mari
American Journal of Public Health; May2002
Mental Disorder, Subsistence Strategies, and Victimization among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Homeless and Runaway Adolescents
Les B. Whitbeck, Xiaojin Chen, Dan R. Hoyt, Kimberly A. Tyler and Kurt D. Johnson
The Journal of Sex Research
Vol. 41, No. 4 (Nov., 2004), pp. 329-342
Runaways and Street Kids: Risks and Interventions for
Homeless Youth
Joanna R. Love
The Graduate Journal of Counseling Pyschology. Spring 2008
Young, gay, homeless and invisible: a growing population?
Dunne, G. A., Prendergast, S., & Telford, D.
Culture, Health & Sexuality, 4. 2002
Initially, I was focused on the family aspect of sheltering the homeless, and often times how families are split up or even have to pay to see each other. After reading the second part of Kozol’s book however, the part about Rachel wondering where God was really resonated with me, so my attention may be shifting. Right now though, the resources I have for learning about shelters, government, and families are:
ReplyDeleteHiding Homelessness: ‘quality of life’ laws and the politics of development in American cities.
Fang, Anyu
Homeless Policy: The Need to Speak to Families
Elaine A. Anderson
Sally A. Koblinsky
Sheltering the Homeless in the US: Social Improvement and the Continuum of Care
Charles Hoch
I thought the research session went well on Tuesday. I am still unsure weather my topic is relevant enough to homelessness, but I will not be certain until I find a few more articles and can narrow my search. As of right now, I am focusing on foster care, and I would like to learn about how children are treated within the system. Some pressing questions I have are how often are these kids reunited with their real parents, if/how are their lives improved through foster care, and how is it determined by social workers where a child should be placed.
ReplyDeleteThis has proven challenging already because most articles I have found are about what happen to young adults that are leaving transition homes to start jobs and begin their adult lives. There are also more materials about the psychological effects that homeless children experience.
So far, I have found three articles that will help me explore the topics and issues within the foster care system. I am hoping that after reading a few articles, I will be able to recognize some trends and narrow my focus even more.
What Happens to Foster Kids: Educational Experiences of a Random Sample of Foster Care Youth and a Matched Group of Non-Foster Care Youth
By: Wendy Whiting Blome
Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal
Foster-Adoptive Programs in Public Social Service Agencies: Toward Flexible Family Resources
By: Maryanne D. Mica and Nancy R. Vosler
Child Welfare
The Foster Care Ombudsman: Applying an International Concept to Help Prevent Institutional Abuse of America’s Foster Youth
By: Abbey M. Marzick
Family Court Review
I do not have any questions about the assignment but I am concerned about synthesizing the different articles because they approach the topic of homelessness in relation to STIs and HIV from various different academic perspectives. These are my most promising articles:
ReplyDeleteKidder, D. P., Wolitski, R. J., Campsmith, M. L., & Nakamura, G. V. (2007). Health Status, Health Care Use, Medication Use, and Medication Adherence Among Homeless and Housed People Living With HIV/AIDS.
Smith, M. Y., Rapkin, B. D., Winkel, G., Springer, C., Chhabra, R., & Feldman, I. S. (2000). Housing Status and Health Care Service Utilization Among Low-income Persons with HIV/AIDS.
Marshall, B. L. (2008). The contextual determinants of sexually transmissible infections among street-involved youth in North America.
Searching for sources on my topic has been difficult for me because I am having trouble focusing my topic. I am trying to allow the sources and the research guide my topic, but I am feeling the need to decide on a stronger focus, and then research. Crime and homelessness seems like too broad of a topic and I think I need to narrow my search. Also, I would prefer to focus on how crime leads to homelessness rather than homelessness leading to crime. I want to focus on the effects of crime causing homelessness such as inability to get a job, losing families, and drug dependency. Instead, I am finding more information on how being homeless causes men to commit crimes, which seems inevitable but not the topic I would like to focus on.
ReplyDeletePromising(ish) Sources
1. Snow, David A., Baker, Susan G., Anderson, Leon. “Criminality and Homeless Men: An Empirical Assessment”. 36 Soc. Probs. 532 (1989)
2. Benda, Brent B. “Crime, drug abuse and mental illness: A comparison of homeless men and women.” Journal of Social Service Research, Vol 13(3), 1990, 39-60.
3. Chunias, Jennifer L., Aufgang, Yael D. “Beyond Monetary Compensation: The Need for Comprehensive Services for the Wrongfully Convicted.” Boston College Third World Law Journal, Vol, 28:105.
Here's Maddie's update:
ReplyDeleteI thought that there was going to be a plethora of information on domestic abuse, espeicially because by law police have to record crimes and DA incidents and release the information to the public. I found sources for domestic abuse but few that linked the abuse to the homeless. I still have no doubt in my mind that the reason several women and children are in shelters is because of the abuse they experienced. Right now I have three books from the library:
Women and Domestic Violence by Lynette Feder
Violence and families by the National Research council and Violence and maternal and child health by Stephen J. Morewitz