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Institutional Discharges and Subsequent Shelter Use among Unaccompanied Adults in New York City
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Metraux, Stephen; Byrne, Thomas; Culhane, Dennis P. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
This study empirically examines the link between homelessness and discharges from other institutions. An administrative record match was undertaken to determine rates of discharge from institutional care for 9,247 unaccompanied adult shelter users in New York City. Cluster analysis and multinomial logistic regression analysis was then used to…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Multivariate Analysis, Housing Needs, Emergency Shelters
Assessing Residential Segregation among Medicaid Recipients with Psychiatric Disability in Philadelphia
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Metraux, Stephen; Caplan, Joel M.; Klugman, Dutch; Hadley, Trevor R. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study assesses the extent of residential segregation among 15,246 people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities and receiving Medicaid (MA) in Philadelphia, and an identically sized group of MA recipients serving as matched controls. Results indicate that overall levels of residential segregation among this group were modest at their most…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mental Disorders, Residential Patterns, Ghettos
Perceptions about Services and Dropout from a Substance Abuse Case Management Program
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Sosin, Michael R.; Durkin, Elizabeth – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This article uses event history analysis to examine certain determinants of dropout from a case management program that serves homeless adults with substance abuse problems. The examined determinants are perceptions of conventional treatment services: (a) client perceptions concerning the value of the conventional services that case managers help…
Descriptors: Caring, Delivery Systems, Substance Abuse, Homeless People
Effects of Psychoeducation for Offenders in a Community Correctional Facility
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Liau, Albert K.; Shively, Randy; Horn, Mary; Landau, Jennifer; Barriga, Alvaro; Gibbs, John C. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of the EQUIP program. The psychoeducational curriculum was implemented in a community correctional facility for adult felony offenders. The psychoeducational curriculum is designed to remedy offenders' delays in moral judgment maturity, social cognitive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Value Judgment, Interpersonal Competence, Psychoeducational Methods