Working With Families Experiencing Homelessness Understanding Trauma and Its Impact

摘要: The prevalence of traumatic stress in the lives families who are homeless is extraordinarily high. Often these headed by single mothers have experienced ongoing trauma form childhood abuse and neglect, domestic violence, community as well associated with poverty loss home, safety, sense security. These experiences a significant impact on how children adults think, feel, behave, cope, relate to others. Given high rates exposure among homeless, understanding its essential providing quality care. Becoming "trauma-informed" requires that service providers tailor their services meet unique needs survivors avoid additional harm. In this article authors explore experiencing homelessness