D K Padgett
Biographic Data
| ID | 29354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D K Padgett |
| GIVEN NAMES | D K |
| FAMILY NAME | Padgett |
| SIGNATURE | PADGETT D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1483-2513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 497 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
A qualitative study of unconditional cash transfers with adults experiencing homelessness
Despite research showing that unconditional cash transfer (UCT) projects can help reduce poverty, few UCT projects have targeted people experiencing homelessness (PEH). Based upon a sample of 20 PEH who were randomly selected to receive $750 a month for one year as part of a larger randomized control trial, the current qualitative study considers how PEH react to receiving UCT and how they spend or plan to spend the funds. Study participants who …
Homeownership as a Determinant of Health: A Broader Consideration of Housing and Homelessness Amid Current Challenges
From homelessness to hotel living during the Covid-19 pandemic
We explored life in a hotel where unhoused individuals were accommodated during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted hour-long semi-structured interviews with twenty residents of a lodging hotel in New York City to: (1) compare their current living situation with prior experiences of homelessness; (2) address how current needs were being met; and (3) assess how hotel living might facilitate residents’ transitions to more permanent housing. Althoug…
Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles
From the streets to a hotel: A qualitative study of the experiences of homeless persons in the pandemic era
In the wake of COVID-19, programs for housing homeless individuals in hotels have emerged in the U.S., though research has yielded little information about the impact of these programs on participants expressed in their own words. In this qualitative study conducted in a major northeastern city, 13 previously street homeless individuals recount their experiences of hotel housing during the pandemic. Participants were recruited from an advocacy-in…
Weighing the options: Service user perspectives on homeless outreach services
On a single night in 2018, over 194,000 individuals experienced unsheltered homelessness across the United States. Homeless outreach programs are often a first point of contact for these individuals, providing essential services, including connecting them to emergency shelter. Guided by the socio-rational choice model, this qualitative study aimed to address two questions: 1) How do experiences with outreach workers affect the way individuals exp…
Transitioning to independent living: Experiences of homeless young adults in rapid rehousing
Behavioral Crisis and First Response: Qualitative Interviews with Chicago Stakeholders
Improving interactions between first responders and individuals experiencing behavioral crisis is a critical public health challenge. To gain insight into these interactions, key informant qualitative interviews were conducted with 25 Chicago stakeholders. Stakeholders included directors and staff of community organizations and shelters that frequently engage first responders. Interviews included granular depictions related to the expectations an…
Stigma and salience: Photo-elicitation and identity work among formerly homeless adults with serious mental illness and substance abuse histories
Home Is Where Your Root Is”: Place Making, Belonging, and Community Building among Somalis in Chicago
This qualitative study examines the notion of home as it relates to place making, belonging, and community building. Using a phenomenological method of inquiry, data were gathered through in-depth qualitative interviews with 15 Somali Americans and subjected to transcendental phenomenological analyses. Three major themes were found: (1) the meaning of community: being Somali and Muslim; (2) "We help each other. We are connected"; and (3) "Home is…
The Ties That Bind and Unbound Ties: Experiences of Formerly Homeless Individuals in Recovery From Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use
This report explores the nature and quality of social ties of formerly homeless individuals in recovery from serious mental illness and substance abuse and how these ties relate to experiences of community. Using grounded theory and cross-case analysis techniques, we analyzed 34 qualitative interviews conducted with predominantly racial/ethnic minority individuals receiving mental health services. Participants described a range of involvement and…
Examining the nonkin support networks of orphaned adolescents participating in a family‐based economic‐strengthening intervention in Uganda
In this study, we examined the nonkin support networks of orphaned adolescents participating in a family‐based economic‐strengthening intervention in HIV‐impacted communities in Uganda. We analyzed data from a cluster randomized experimental study for orphaned adolescents aged 11–17 years. Participants were randomly assigned to either the control condition, which received bolstered standard of care (BSOC) services, or the treatment condition, whi…
Gender, Everyday Resistance and Bodily Integrity: Women’s Lives on Delhi Streets
Despite a dramatic increase in homelessness globally, little attention has been paid to the effects of gender and other identities on unsheltered women’s lives in non-Western contexts. Like their housed counterparts, homeless women in India live with gender norms such as female modesty, marriage, motherhood, and economic dependence. This ethnographic study focused on the lives and surrounding environment of 10 women sleeping rough in Delhi, India…
Pavement Dwelling in Delhi, India: An Ethnographic Account of Survival on the Margins
This article examines survival among homeless persons (“pavement dwellers”) in Delhi, India. In particular, we explore the role of formal and informal relationships in meeting the demands of daily existence and how and when public social welfare programs assist pavement dwellers. Over fifteen months, beginning in 2013, participant observation was conducted, and approximately 200 individuals (homeless persons, government officials, and NGO represe…
(Em)placing recovery: Sites of health and wellness for individuals with serious mental illness in supported housing
This study used photo-elicitation methodology to explore how the move from supervised to supported housing affects recovery and community connections for individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI) in four Canadian cities. Qualitative interviews conducted in 2015 revealed five themes: (1) the characteristics distinguishing home from housing; (2) the importance of amenities offered by supported housing; (3) the connections between accessi…
Supported housing for adults with psychiatric disabilities: How tenants confront the problem of loneliness
The objective of this study was to examine the experience of loneliness among people with psychiatric disabilities after moving from custodial housing, including group homes, boarding homes, and family-type residences to independent, supported apartments in the community. Qualitative research methods guided by a naturalistic/constructivist framework were used. Data collection occurred between May 2014 and July 2015 and consisted of individual sem…
Complex recovery: Understanding the lives of formerly homeless adults with complex needs
OBJECTIVE: This report examines mental health recovery in a population neglected in the literature--formerly homeless adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse. The term 'complex recovery' is used to examine the onset and impact of various types of adversity over the life course. METHOD: Burawoy's extended case method was conducted on in-depth interviews with 74 formerly homeless adults living in housing programs in New …
Case Manager Perspectives on the Role of Treatment in Supportive Housing for People with Severe Mental Illness
Case managers understand supportive housing to be a treatment program; however, given the external constraints and their own beliefs about mental illness, case managers often equate treatment with taking medication. Study findings demonstrate the need to train case managers about mental health recovery and integrated health care. The findings also have implications for policies that tie housing to services
Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives
Little more than two decades ago, the 'Housing First' (HF) approach pioneered by Pathways to Housing, Incorporated was a small but determined challenge to the burgeoning yet ineffective service system for homeless persons. Today, the success of HF has brought about paradigm-shifting systems change not only in the homeless 'industry' but in related service systems. This book employs conceptual frameworks drawn from theories of institutional change…
Social Relationships of Dually Diagnosed Homeless Adults Following Enrollment in Housing First or Traditional Treatment Services
These findings suggest that HF participants are not more socially isolated than those in traditional care. Implications for practice, policy and future research are discussed
Rebuilding lives and identities: The role of place in recovery among persons with complex needs
A Picture Is Worth . . . ? Photo Elicitation Interviewing With Formerly Homeless Adults
We report on the use of photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) with 13 participants in a qualitative study of formerly homeless men and women with serious mental illness. Following a respondent-controlled approach, participants were asked to take up to 18 photographs visually portraying positive and negative aspects of their lives and to subsequently narrate the meaning of the photos in a one-on-one interview. Thematic analysis of the photos ( N = …
Permanent Supportive Housing: Addressing Homelessness and Health Disparities
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention to address long-term homelessness. Evidence has resulted in a shift in US policy toward using PSH rather than shelters and transitional housing. Despite recognizing that individuals transitioning from homelessness to PSH experience a high burden of disease and health disparities, public health research has not considered whether and how PSH improves physical health outcomes. Based on diverse a…
Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Public Health
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Choosing the Right Qualitative Approach(es) 3. Mixed Methods 4. Getting Started: Study Design and Sampling 5. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research 6. Entering the Field and Conducting Observation 7. Interviewing and Use of Documents 8. Data Analysis and Interpretation 9. Strategies for Rigor 10. Telling the Story: Writing Up the Qualitative Study Appendix References Index About the Author
Using the Interactive Systems Framework to Support a Quality Improvement Approach to Dissemination of Evidence‐Based Strategies to Promote Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Planning a Comprehensive Dy…
Dissemination efforts must optimize interventions for new settings and populations. As such, dissemination research should incorporate principles of quality improvement. Comprehensive Dynamic Trial (CDT) designs examine how information gained during dissemination may be used to modify interventions and improve performance. Although CDT may offer distinct advantages over static designs, organizing the many necessary roles and activities is a signi…
There's no place like (a) home: Ontological security among persons with serious mental illness in the United States
Housing First Services for People Who Are Homeless With Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
The literature on homeless adults with severe mental illness is generally silent on a critical issue surrounding service delivery—the contrast between housing first and treatment first program philosophies. This study draws on data from a longitudinal experiment contrasting a housing first program (which offers immediate permanent housing without requiring treatment compliance or abstinence) and treatment first (standard care) programs for 225 ad…
Ethnicity and the use of outpatient mental health services in a national insured population
OBJECTIVES. Factors affecting ethnic differences in the use of outpatient mental health services are analyzed in an insured, nonpoor population to determine if lower use by Blacks and Hispanics persists when socioeconomic and other factors are controlled. METHODS. To identify significant predictors of the probability and amount of use, insurance claims data for a population of 1.2 million federal employees insured by Blue Cross/Blue Shield in 198…
Substance Use Outcomes Among Homeless Clients with Serious Mental Illness: Comparing Housing First with Treatment First Programs
Predictors of emergency room use by homeless adults in New York City: The influence of predisposing, enabling and need factors
Employing data from a 1987 shelter survey of 1260 homeless adults in New York City, multivariate models of emergency room (ER) use are developed which include an array of risk factors for visiting a hospital ER including health and mental health problems, victimization and injuries. The study's primary goal is to identify factors that predict ER use in this population. Multivariate logistic and linear regression models were tested separately for …
Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative Research and Clinical Social Work Practice
This article critically examines the “hand in glove” assertion regarding qualitative research and social work practice. Distinctions are discussed across several domains: paradigm assumptions, goals, education and training, the clinical versus research relationship, and criteria for success. Although the parallels between qualitative research and practice are compelling, the demands of the clinical mandate conflict with the basic goals of qualita…
I. Comparing Use of Public and Private Mental Health Services: The Enduring Barriers of Race and Age
Permanent Supportive Housing: Addressing Homelessness and Health Disparities
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention to address long-term homelessness. Evidence has resulted in a shift in US policy toward using PSH rather than shelters and transitional housing. Despite recognizing that individuals transitioning from homelessness to PSH experience a high burden of disease and health disparities, public health research has not considered whether and how PSH improves physical health outcomes. Based on diverse a…
The experiences of “aging” among formerly homeless adults with chronic mental illness: A qualitative study
Preparation of youth in congregate care for independent living
This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study that focused on the quality and adequacy of preparation of youth in congregate care for independent living. This study, conducted in New York, NY, USA, explored the extent to which youth feel prepared to leave care and the opportunities they are given to participate in planning and decision‐making regarding issues that personally affect their future. Interviews were conducted with profession…
Social Relationships of Dually Diagnosed Homeless Adults Following Enrollment in Housing First or Traditional Treatment Services
These findings suggest that HF participants are not more socially isolated than those in traditional care. Implications for practice, policy and future research are discussed
Rebuilding lives and identities: The role of place in recovery among persons with complex needs
Physical Health Status, Substance Use and Abuse, and Mental Disorders Among Homeless Adults
To understand the influence of substance use, substance abuse, and mental disorder on the health status and physical condition of homeless adults, representative samples of 949 men and 311 women residing in the New York City shelter system for homeless adults during the summer of 1987 were interviewed with a structured protocol. A typology of ten groups was identified, based on their profiles on 7 measures of substance use, substance abuse, and m…
Home Is Where Your Root Is”: Place Making, Belonging, and Community Building among Somalis in Chicago
This qualitative study examines the notion of home as it relates to place making, belonging, and community building. Using a phenomenological method of inquiry, data were gathered through in-depth qualitative interviews with 15 Somali Americans and subjected to transcendental phenomenological analyses. Three major themes were found: (1) the meaning of community: being Somali and Muslim; (2) "We help each other. We are connected"; and (3) "Home is…
Obtaining Large-Scale Funding for Empowerment-Oriented Qualitative Research: A Report From Personal Experience
Obtaining funding for qualitative research remains a challenge despite greater openness to methodological pluralism. Such hurdles are presumably compounded when the proposed study employs empowerment theory, rendering it susceptible to charges of elevating ideology over rigor. This article draws on the authors' experience in securing large-scale funding for an empowerment-oriented qualitative study of homeless mentally ill adults. Lessons learned…
(Em)placing recovery: Sites of health and wellness for individuals with serious mental illness in supported housing
This study used photo-elicitation methodology to explore how the move from supervised to supported housing affects recovery and community connections for individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI) in four Canadian cities. Qualitative interviews conducted in 2015 revealed five themes: (1) the characteristics distinguishing home from housing; (2) the importance of amenities offered by supported housing; (3) the connections between accessi…
Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Social Work Knowledge Development
Journal Article Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Social Work Knowledge Development Get access Deborah K. Padgett, PhD, MPH Deborah K. Padgett, PhD, MPH professor Silver School of Social Work, New York University, Ehrenkranz Center, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10003-6654; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 101…
Supported housing for adults with psychiatric disabilities: How tenants confront the problem of loneliness
The objective of this study was to examine the experience of loneliness among people with psychiatric disabilities after moving from custodial housing, including group homes, boarding homes, and family-type residences to independent, supported apartments in the community. Qualitative research methods guided by a naturalistic/constructivist framework were used. Data collection occurred between May 2014 and July 2015 and consisted of individual sem…
Using the Interactive Systems Framework to Support a Quality Improvement Approach to Dissemination of Evidence‐Based Strategies to Promote Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Planning a Comprehensive Dy…
Dissemination efforts must optimize interventions for new settings and populations. As such, dissemination research should incorporate principles of quality improvement. Comprehensive Dynamic Trial (CDT) designs examine how information gained during dissemination may be used to modify interventions and improve performance. Although CDT may offer distinct advantages over static designs, organizing the many necessary roles and activities is a signi…
Somatizing distress: Hospital treatment of psychiatric co-morbidity and the limitations of biomedicine
Behavioral Crisis and First Response: Qualitative Interviews with Chicago Stakeholders
Improving interactions between first responders and individuals experiencing behavioral crisis is a critical public health challenge. To gain insight into these interactions, key informant qualitative interviews were conducted with 25 Chicago stakeholders. Stakeholders included directors and staff of community organizations and shelters that frequently engage first responders. Interviews included granular depictions related to the expectations an…
Case Manager Perspectives on the Role of Treatment in Supportive Housing for People with Severe Mental Illness
Case managers understand supportive housing to be a treatment program; however, given the external constraints and their own beliefs about mental illness, case managers often equate treatment with taking medication. Study findings demonstrate the need to train case managers about mental health recovery and integrated health care. The findings also have implications for policies that tie housing to services
Gender, Everyday Resistance and Bodily Integrity: Women’s Lives on Delhi Streets
Despite a dramatic increase in homelessness globally, little attention has been paid to the effects of gender and other identities on unsheltered women’s lives in non-Western contexts. Like their housed counterparts, homeless women in India live with gender norms such as female modesty, marriage, motherhood, and economic dependence. This ethnographic study focused on the lives and surrounding environment of 10 women sleeping rough in Delhi, India…
A Historical Account of the Society for Social Work and Research: Presidential Perspectives on Advances in Research Infrastructure
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) was founded in 1994 to provide a meeting ground and support organization for individual social workers who engage in research. Over its first 14 years, SSWR has grown from a modest-sized organization that hosted an initial conference to a large and influential force that sponsors a wildly successful yearly conference. SSWR's annual conference now showcases a portfolio of awards, including a travel s…
Social work research on disasters in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy: Reflections from New York City
Journal Article Social work research on disasters in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy: Reflections from New York City Get access Deborah K. Padgett Deborah K. Padgett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2002, Pages 185–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/26.3.185 Published: 01 September 2002 Article history Received: 19 December 2001 Revision received: …
An Adaptive Approach to the Study of Ethnicity: Serbian-Americans in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Studies of southern and eastern European ethnic groups in the United States often become submerged in the ongoing argument of assimilation vs. cultural pluralism. As a result, underlying factors affecting the persistence or dissolution of a particular group are obscured or ignored. Social, historical, cultural, religious, political, and economic aspects of ethnic differences are useful targets of analysis. However, much of the research on ethnici…
New Hungarian Peasants: An East Central European Experience with Collectivization
Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy . Anthony J. Marsella and Geoffrey M. White
Physical Health Status, Substance Use and Abuse, and Mental Disorders Among Homeless Adults
To understand the influence of substance use, substance abuse, and mental disorder on the health status and physical condition of homeless adults, representative samples of 949 men and 311 women residing in the New York City shelter system for homeless adults during the summer of 1987 were interviewed with a structured protocol. A typology of ten groups was identified, based on their profiles on 7 measures of substance use, substance abuse, and m…
Somatizing distress: Hospital treatment of psychiatric co-morbidity and the limitations of biomedicine
Psychosocial factors influencing non-urgent use of the emergency room: A review of the literature and recommendations for research and improved service delivery
Despite dramatic increases in use of hospital emergency rooms (ERs) since the 1950s, an estimated 85% of ER visits are made for non-life-threatening reasons. Using a modified version of the Andersen and Newman model of health care utilization, this paper reviews the research literature on ER use to examine what is known about factors that influence three stages of the help-seeking process: (1) problem recognition; (2) the decision to seek help; (…
Victimization and traumatic injuries among the homeless: Associations with alcohol, drug, and mental problems
Data from a 1987 survey of 1,260 homeless adults in New York City show that mental problems and substance dependence were significantly linked to beating and sexual assault among women and to several types of injury and victimization among men. The extremely high rates of victimization and injury underscore a need for greater attention to the safety and welfare of homeless people
The Effect of Insurance Benefit Changes on Use of Child and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health Services
Use of outpatient mental health services by dependent children younger than 18 years of age enrolled in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Federal Employees Plan (FEP) is examined in 1978 and 1983 focusing on a cut in benefits and a shift from high- to low-option plan enrollment between those years. While use rates increased from 2.13% to 2.76% by 1983, the average number of visits decreased from 18.9 to 12.8. High-option plan use exceeded low-option…
Ethnicity and the use of outpatient mental health services in a national insured population
OBJECTIVES. Factors affecting ethnic differences in the use of outpatient mental health services are analyzed in an insured, nonpoor population to determine if lower use by Blacks and Hispanics persists when socioeconomic and other factors are controlled. METHODS. To identify significant predictors of the probability and amount of use, insurance claims data for a population of 1.2 million federal employees insured by Blue Cross/Blue Shield in 198…
Predictors of emergency room use by homeless adults in New York City: The influence of predisposing, enabling and need factors
Employing data from a 1987 shelter survey of 1260 homeless adults in New York City, multivariate models of emergency room (ER) use are developed which include an array of risk factors for visiting a hospital ER including health and mental health problems, victimization and injuries. The study's primary goal is to identify factors that predict ER use in this population. Multivariate logistic and linear regression models were tested separately for …
Women's mental health: Some directions for research
Some key issues regarding gender differences in the prevalence of mental disorders, the course of mental illness, and the use of services are reviewed, along with their diagnosis and psychopharmacologic treatment. Implications for clinical practice are examined, as are directions for future research that will ensure the presence of women's mental health as a major element in the national agenda on women's health
Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative Research and Clinical Social Work Practice
This article critically examines the “hand in glove” assertion regarding qualitative research and social work practice. Distinctions are discussed across several domains: paradigm assumptions, goals, education and training, the clinical versus research relationship, and criteria for success. Although the parallels between qualitative research and practice are compelling, the demands of the clinical mandate conflict with the basic goals of qualita…
I. Comparing Use of Public and Private Mental Health Services: The Enduring Barriers of Race and Age
The Research-Practice Debate in a Qualitative Research Context
Journal Article The Research-Practice Debate in a Qualitative Research Context Get access Deborah K. Padgett, PhD Deborah K. Padgett, PhD professor Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York University, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10003; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 3, May 1999, Pages 280–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/44.3.280 P…
Gender differences in young adolescents' exposure to violence and rates of PTSD symptomatology
Gender differences in exposure to violence and levels of PTSD symptomatology were examined in a school-based sample of 621 young adolescents. Also investigated as predictors of PTSD symptoms were cognitive coping strategies, perceived social support, and the affective experience of fear. Results support the importance of evaluating gender differences, differentiating between violence by type and location, and considering both cognitive and affect…
Social work research on disasters in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy: Reflections from New York City
Journal Article Social work research on disasters in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy: Reflections from New York City Get access Deborah K. Padgett Deborah K. Padgett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2002, Pages 185–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/26.3.185 Published: 01 September 2002 Article history Received: 19 December 2001 Revision received: …
Integrating Mental Health Screening and Abnormal Cancer Screening Follow-Up: An Intervention to Reach Low-Income Women
The Society for Social Work and Research at 10 Years of Age and Counting: An Idea Whose Time Had Come
Since its founding in 1994, the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) has grown dramatically, in large part because of its annual conference featuring the best in social work research. SSWR’s growth has also given rise to an appreciation for greater diversity in methods. Although disparities in research infrastructure (and procurement of funding) persist, SSWR continually seeks ways to provide training and support to help level the playing …
Housing First Services for People Who Are Homeless With Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
The literature on homeless adults with severe mental illness is generally silent on a critical issue surrounding service delivery—the contrast between housing first and treatment first program philosophies. This study draws on data from a longitudinal experiment contrasting a housing first program (which offers immediate permanent housing without requiring treatment compliance or abstinence) and treatment first (standard care) programs for 225 ad…
Preparation of youth in congregate care for independent living
This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study that focused on the quality and adequacy of preparation of youth in congregate care for independent living. This study, conducted in New York, NY, USA, explored the extent to which youth feel prepared to leave care and the opportunities they are given to participate in planning and decision‐making regarding issues that personally affect their future. Interviews were conducted with profession…
In their own words: Trauma and substance abuse in the lives of formerly homeless women with serious mental illness
In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 formerly homeless mentally ill women to capture their individual life trajectories of mental illness, substance abuse, and trauma in their own words. Cross-case analyses produced 5 themes: (a) betrayals of trust, (b) graphic or gratuitous nature of traumatic events, (c) anxiety about leaving their immediate surroundings (including attending group treatment programs), (d) desire for one's own space, and (…
There's no place like (a) home: Ontological security among persons with serious mental illness in the United States
A Historical Account of the Society for Social Work and Research: Presidential Perspectives on Advances in Research Infrastructure
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) was founded in 1994 to provide a meeting ground and support organization for individual social workers who engage in research. Over its first 14 years, SSWR has grown from a modest-sized organization that hosted an initial conference to a large and influential force that sponsors a wildly successful yearly conference. SSWR's annual conference now showcases a portfolio of awards, including a travel s…
Social relationships among persons who have experienced serious mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness: Implications for recovery
The new paradigm of recovery has highlighted the importance of positive social relationships, but little is known about their role in recovery among homeless individuals with serious mental illness and comorbid substance abuse. This study used within- and across-case analyses of longitudinal data from qualitative interviews with 41 dually diagnosed individuals entering residential programs to exit homelessness and receive needed services. Themati…
The experiences of “aging” among formerly homeless adults with chronic mental illness: A qualitative study
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