Ronni Michelle Greenwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronni Michelle Greenwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronni Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenwood |
| SIGNATURE | GREENWOOD R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1456-0493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Distal supports, capabilities, and growth‐focused recovery: A comparison of Housing First and the staircase continuum of care
Adults who have substantial histories of homelessness and complex support needs may feel ambivalent about integrating into their communities and find it difficult to do so. Being familiar to and recognized by others as a resident in a neighborhood or community are sources of “distal support” that provide individuals with feelings of belonging to their community and are important to recovery from homelessness. We hypothesized that individuals enga…
Psychometric properties of the measure of achieved capabilities in homeless services
Findings demonstrate that the MACHS is a valid and reliable measure that may be used to assess the extent to which homeless services support their clients to develop capabilities needed for growth-related recovery. Implications for practice and future research directions are discussed
You get to understand we are all human beings”: Community solidarity initiatives as spaces of recognition, resistance, and change
In Ireland the Direct Provision system segregates and excludes displaced people from the host community, and informal community solidarity initiatives (CSIs) were established nationwide to address this issue. We examined experiences of intergroup contact in CSIs and related contexts to identify how solidarity is produced, and for whom, through photovoice workshops (Study 1: n = 13) with displaced participants of two CSIs, and interviews (Study 2:…
All immigrants are not alike: Intersectionality matters in views of immigrant groups
In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels of social status. Using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) and factor analysis to examine shared meanings, …
Autonomy and authority: Homeless service users' empowering experiences in housing first and staircase services
Although Housing First (HF) has gained widespread support as a service model to end homelessness, staircase services (SS) continue to proliferate. Critics have argued that SS contribute to institutionalisation and neglect the structural causes of homelessness. However, HF employs an empowerment‐orientated approach which can reduce institutionalisation and enable service users to achieve their potential. In this study, we combined a conceptual fra…
Structure and agency in capabilities‐enhancing homeless services: Housing first, housing quality and consumer choice
The capabilities approach, a framework for understanding and measuring inequality, stipulates that equality is best understood as the freedom to do and be within a particular context. Homelessness has been referred to as a situation of ‘capabilities deprivation’, and the extent to which homeless services restore or enhance capabilities is of increasing interest. As part of a large, eight‐country study of homelessness in Europe, we examined the ex…
Factors Associated with Providers’ Work Engagement and Burnout in Homeless Services: A Cross‐national Study
The complexity of homeless service users’ characteristics and the contextual challenges faced by services can make the experience of working with people in homelessness stressful and can put providers’ well‐being at risk. In the current study, we investigated the association between service characteristics (i.e., the availability of training and supervision and the capability‐fostering approach) and social service providers’ work engagement and b…
Empowering Features and Outcomes of Homeless Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Home as a Base for a Well-Lived Life: Comparing the Capabilities of Homeless Service Users in Housing First and the Staircase of Transition in Europe
Nussbaum’s Central Capabilities refer to the elements of a well-lived life, and many adults who experience homelessness are deprived of these capabilities. The study aim was to investigate whether service users experience different homeless services as affording or constraining capabilities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with homeless service users (n = 77) in Housing First (HF) and staircase services (SS) in eight European countries. W…
Homeless Adults’ Recovery Experiences in Housing First and Traditional Services Programs in Seven European Countries
Highlights Housing First reports more service user recovery but little is known about how this is achieved. Certain features of homeless services are likely to promote service users’ recovery. Housing First service users reported more choice, better housing quality, and more satisfaction. Service features predicted independent housing, psychiatric symptoms, and community integration. Across socio‐political and economic contexts, Housing First pre…
Microsystems of Recovery in Homeless Services: The Influence of Service Provider Values on Service Users’ Recovery Experiences
Highlights Physical health, mental health, and community integration recovery is possible in homelessness. Recovery experiences are predicted by homeless services users’ sense of personal mastery. Personal mastery is predicted by service users’ perceived choice in housing and services. Perceived choice is predicted by homeless service providers’ consumer‐led oriented values. Recovery‐oriented homeless services must enable service users’ self‐dete…
From the “reel” world to the “real” world: Subjective experiences of violent fictional entertainment
Fictional violence holds strong appeal for a wide audience. Given this appeal and the public’s concern about it, researchers have extensively investigated whether there is a direct effect of exposure to fictional violence on individuals’ aggressive behaviours. In the present research, we aimed to contribute to the comparatively smaller body of research concerned with factors that motivate individuals to engage with fictional violence. We intervie…
Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Acculturative Stress: Ordinary Privileges, Overt Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being
We examined the relation of two acculturation stressors, exclusion from ordinary privileges and overt discrimination, to two indicators of psychological well-being (i.e., psychiatric symptoms and satisfaction with life) among a diverse sample of immigrant women living in Ireland ( N = 174). We grouped our sample into “visible” immigrant women of color and “nonvisible” White immigrant women. As expected, visible immigrant women reported more exper…
Mastery matters: Consumer choice, psychiatric symptoms and problematic substance use among adults with histories of homelessness
Previous research demonstrated the importance of consumer choice and mastery to residential stability and psychiatric functioning for adults with histories of homelessness. In the present study, we investigated whether these relationships hold, even in the context of problem-related substance misuse. Questionnaire data were collected in Ireland from 101 residents of long-term homeless accommodation in 2010. Hayes' PROCESS macro for mediation and …
Ordinary decent domestic violence’: A discursive analysis of family law judges’ interviews
This study examined judges’ constructions of the ‘best interests of the child’ in child custody and access arraignments where there were allegations of domestic violence within the context of an interview. Using interviews with six Irish District Court judges, a micro-structural discourse analysis enabled the identification of socio-cultural discourses, scientific knowledge and judges’ own values and beliefs biases about custody arraignments in c…
Remembrance, Responsibility, and Reparations: The Use of Emotions in Talk about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
This research aimed to examine the role of collective emotions in the process of political solidarity within the context of debate about reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Analysis of interview data (n = 12) illustrates the creative and flexible ways that White allies delegitimize authority inaction and legitimize majority support for action through strategic use of social categories and collective emotions in their talk about the riot and…
Yesterday Redeemed and Tomorrow Made More Beautiful: Historical Injustice and Possible Collective Selves
This research examines the ways in which talk about reparations for historical injustice demonstrates individuals' ambitions for future collective identities. Interviews with White Tulsans (n = 25) illustrate how discursive temporal constructions justify support for or opposition to reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. It is argued that White Tulsans strategically employed these constructions to either transform or maintain collective identi…
Hijab , visibility and the performance of identity
Theories concerning the relationship between social identification and behaviour are increasingly attentive to how group members emphasise or de‐emphasise identity‐related attributes before particular audiences. Most research on this issue is experimental and explores the expression of identity‐related attitudes as a function of participants' beliefs concerning their visibility to different audiences. We extend and complement such research with a…
Pathways Housing First for Homeless Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: Program Innovation, Research, and Advocacy
This article describes how the Pathways Housing First (PHF) model of homelessness intervention evolved from a radical idea to the gold standard of service delivery for homelessness intervention programs that serve adults with psychiatric and/or substance abuse diagnoses, not only in the United States, but worldwide. Through the example of PHF we explain how the integration of rigorous research with consumer‐driven service delivery yielded an evid…
Meta‐stereotypes, Social Image and Help Seeking: Dependency‐Related Meta‐stereotypes Reduce Help‐Seeking Behaviour
People who need help can be reluctant to seek it. This can be due to social image concerns. Here, we investigate if these concerns may be prompted by a salient negative meta‐stereotype: the belief that one's group is judged negatively by another group. Specifically, we researched group members' help‐seeking behaviour in the context of a dependency‐related meta‐stereotype. In a two‐condition study ( N = 45), we manipulated participants' belief tha…
Thanks, But No Thanks: Women’s Avoidance of Help-Seeking in the Context of a Dependency-Related Stereotype
The stereotype that women are dependent on men is a commonly verbalized, potentially damaging aspect of benevolent sexism. We investigated how women may use behavioral disconfirmation of the personal applicability of the stereotype to negotiate such sexism. In an experiment ( N = 86), we manipulated female college students’ awareness that women may be stereotyped by men as dependent. We then placed participants in a situation where they needed he…
V. Toward a New Psychology of Women: Still Relevant After All These Years
Intersectional Political Consciousness: Appreciation for Intragroup Differences and Solidarity in Diverse Groups
This article introduces an intersectional approach to political consciousness and presents data to demonstrate its importance for predicting solidarity in diverse social change organizations. Women activists ( N = 174) completed measures of political consciousness, diversity, and solidarity. As expected, women differed in the degree to which their political consciousness reflected intersectionality (sensitivity to intragroup differences arising f…
What Happens When We Unpack the Invisible Knapsack? Intersectional Political Consciousness and Inter-group Appraisals
Minority Understandings of the Dynamics to Intergroup Contact Encounters: British Muslims' (Sometimes Ambivalent) Experiences of Representing Their Group to others
Much contact research overlooks how minorities understand and experience their interactions and encounters with majorities. However, there is good reason to believe that minority group members may have different understandings of such encounters. The present article seeks to address these understandings through considering the experiences of British Muslims. We explore the dynamics of Islamophobia and the potential role of contact in reducing ant…
Intersectional Political Consciousness: Appreciation for Intragroup Differences and Solidarity in Diverse Groups
This article introduces an intersectional approach to political consciousness and presents data to demonstrate its importance for predicting solidarity in diverse social change organizations. Women activists ( N = 174) completed measures of political consciousness, diversity, and solidarity. As expected, women differed in the degree to which their political consciousness reflected intersectionality (sensitivity to intragroup differences arising f…
Community Integration of Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities and Histories of Homelessness
Decreasing Psychiatric Symptoms by Increasing Choice in Services for Adults with Histories of Homelessness
Despite the increase in consumer-driven interventions for homeless and mentally ill individuals, there is little evidence that these programs enhance psychological outcomes. This study followed 197 homeless and mentally ill adults who were randomized into one of two conditions: a consumer-driven "Housing First" program or "treatment as usual" requiring psychiatric treatment and sobriety before housing. Proportion of time homeless, perceived choic…
Hijab , visibility and the performance of identity
Theories concerning the relationship between social identification and behaviour are increasingly attentive to how group members emphasise or de‐emphasise identity‐related attributes before particular audiences. Most research on this issue is experimental and explores the expression of identity‐related attitudes as a function of participants' beliefs concerning their visibility to different audiences. We extend and complement such research with a…
What Happens When We Unpack the Invisible Knapsack? Intersectional Political Consciousness and Inter-group Appraisals
Thanks, But No Thanks: Women’s Avoidance of Help-Seeking in the Context of a Dependency-Related Stereotype
The stereotype that women are dependent on men is a commonly verbalized, potentially damaging aspect of benevolent sexism. We investigated how women may use behavioral disconfirmation of the personal applicability of the stereotype to negotiate such sexism. In an experiment ( N = 86), we manipulated female college students’ awareness that women may be stereotyped by men as dependent. We then placed participants in a situation where they needed he…
Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Acculturative Stress: Ordinary Privileges, Overt Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being
We examined the relation of two acculturation stressors, exclusion from ordinary privileges and overt discrimination, to two indicators of psychological well-being (i.e., psychiatric symptoms and satisfaction with life) among a diverse sample of immigrant women living in Ireland ( N = 174). We grouped our sample into “visible” immigrant women of color and “nonvisible” White immigrant women. As expected, visible immigrant women reported more exper…
Remembrance, Responsibility, and Reparations: The Use of Emotions in Talk about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
This research aimed to examine the role of collective emotions in the process of political solidarity within the context of debate about reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Analysis of interview data (n = 12) illustrates the creative and flexible ways that White allies delegitimize authority inaction and legitimize majority support for action through strategic use of social categories and collective emotions in their talk about the riot and…
Pathways Housing First for Homeless Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: Program Innovation, Research, and Advocacy
This article describes how the Pathways Housing First (PHF) model of homelessness intervention evolved from a radical idea to the gold standard of service delivery for homelessness intervention programs that serve adults with psychiatric and/or substance abuse diagnoses, not only in the United States, but worldwide. Through the example of PHF we explain how the integration of rigorous research with consumer‐driven service delivery yielded an evid…
Meta‐stereotypes, Social Image and Help Seeking: Dependency‐Related Meta‐stereotypes Reduce Help‐Seeking Behaviour
People who need help can be reluctant to seek it. This can be due to social image concerns. Here, we investigate if these concerns may be prompted by a salient negative meta‐stereotype: the belief that one's group is judged negatively by another group. Specifically, we researched group members' help‐seeking behaviour in the context of a dependency‐related meta‐stereotype. In a two‐condition study ( N = 45), we manipulated participants' belief tha…
Minority Understandings of the Dynamics to Intergroup Contact Encounters: British Muslims' (Sometimes Ambivalent) Experiences of Representing Their Group to others
Much contact research overlooks how minorities understand and experience their interactions and encounters with majorities. However, there is good reason to believe that minority group members may have different understandings of such encounters. The present article seeks to address these understandings through considering the experiences of British Muslims. We explore the dynamics of Islamophobia and the potential role of contact in reducing ant…
Homeless Adults’ Recovery Experiences in Housing First and Traditional Services Programs in Seven European Countries
Highlights Housing First reports more service user recovery but little is known about how this is achieved. Certain features of homeless services are likely to promote service users’ recovery. Housing First service users reported more choice, better housing quality, and more satisfaction. Service features predicted independent housing, psychiatric symptoms, and community integration. Across socio‐political and economic contexts, Housing First pre…
Microsystems of Recovery in Homeless Services: The Influence of Service Provider Values on Service Users’ Recovery Experiences
Highlights Physical health, mental health, and community integration recovery is possible in homelessness. Recovery experiences are predicted by homeless services users’ sense of personal mastery. Personal mastery is predicted by service users’ perceived choice in housing and services. Perceived choice is predicted by homeless service providers’ consumer‐led oriented values. Recovery‐oriented homeless services must enable service users’ self‐dete…
Mastery matters: Consumer choice, psychiatric symptoms and problematic substance use among adults with histories of homelessness
Previous research demonstrated the importance of consumer choice and mastery to residential stability and psychiatric functioning for adults with histories of homelessness. In the present study, we investigated whether these relationships hold, even in the context of problem-related substance misuse. Questionnaire data were collected in Ireland from 101 residents of long-term homeless accommodation in 2010. Hayes' PROCESS macro for mediation and …
Factors Associated with Providers’ Work Engagement and Burnout in Homeless Services: A Cross‐national Study
The complexity of homeless service users’ characteristics and the contextual challenges faced by services can make the experience of working with people in homelessness stressful and can put providers’ well‐being at risk. In the current study, we investigated the association between service characteristics (i.e., the availability of training and supervision and the capability‐fostering approach) and social service providers’ work engagement and b…
All immigrants are not alike: Intersectionality matters in views of immigrant groups
In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels of social status. Using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) and factor analysis to examine shared meanings, …
Ordinary decent domestic violence’: A discursive analysis of family law judges’ interviews
This study examined judges’ constructions of the ‘best interests of the child’ in child custody and access arraignments where there were allegations of domestic violence within the context of an interview. Using interviews with six Irish District Court judges, a micro-structural discourse analysis enabled the identification of socio-cultural discourses, scientific knowledge and judges’ own values and beliefs biases about custody arraignments in c…
Yesterday Redeemed and Tomorrow Made More Beautiful: Historical Injustice and Possible Collective Selves
This research examines the ways in which talk about reparations for historical injustice demonstrates individuals' ambitions for future collective identities. Interviews with White Tulsans (n = 25) illustrate how discursive temporal constructions justify support for or opposition to reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. It is argued that White Tulsans strategically employed these constructions to either transform or maintain collective identi…
Autonomy and authority: Homeless service users' empowering experiences in housing first and staircase services
Although Housing First (HF) has gained widespread support as a service model to end homelessness, staircase services (SS) continue to proliferate. Critics have argued that SS contribute to institutionalisation and neglect the structural causes of homelessness. However, HF employs an empowerment‐orientated approach which can reduce institutionalisation and enable service users to achieve their potential. In this study, we combined a conceptual fra…
Home as a Base for a Well-Lived Life: Comparing the Capabilities of Homeless Service Users in Housing First and the Staircase of Transition in Europe
Nussbaum’s Central Capabilities refer to the elements of a well-lived life, and many adults who experience homelessness are deprived of these capabilities. The study aim was to investigate whether service users experience different homeless services as affording or constraining capabilities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with homeless service users (n = 77) in Housing First (HF) and staircase services (SS) in eight European countries. W…
You get to understand we are all human beings”: Community solidarity initiatives as spaces of recognition, resistance, and change
In Ireland the Direct Provision system segregates and excludes displaced people from the host community, and informal community solidarity initiatives (CSIs) were established nationwide to address this issue. We examined experiences of intergroup contact in CSIs and related contexts to identify how solidarity is produced, and for whom, through photovoice workshops (Study 1: n = 13) with displaced participants of two CSIs, and interviews (Study 2:…
Structure and agency in capabilities‐enhancing homeless services: Housing first, housing quality and consumer choice
The capabilities approach, a framework for understanding and measuring inequality, stipulates that equality is best understood as the freedom to do and be within a particular context. Homelessness has been referred to as a situation of ‘capabilities deprivation’, and the extent to which homeless services restore or enhance capabilities is of increasing interest. As part of a large, eight‐country study of homelessness in Europe, we examined the ex…
Decreasing Psychiatric Symptoms by Increasing Choice in Services for Adults with Histories of Homelessness
Despite the increase in consumer-driven interventions for homeless and mentally ill individuals, there is little evidence that these programs enhance psychological outcomes. This study followed 197 homeless and mentally ill adults who were randomized into one of two conditions: a consumer-driven "Housing First" program or "treatment as usual" requiring psychiatric treatment and sobriety before housing. Proportion of time homeless, perceived choic…
Minority Understandings of the Dynamics to Intergroup Contact Encounters: British Muslims' (Sometimes Ambivalent) Experiences of Representing Their Group to others
Much contact research overlooks how minorities understand and experience their interactions and encounters with majorities. However, there is good reason to believe that minority group members may have different understandings of such encounters. The present article seeks to address these understandings through considering the experiences of British Muslims. We explore the dynamics of Islamophobia and the potential role of contact in reducing ant…
Community Integration of Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities and Histories of Homelessness
V. Toward a New Psychology of Women: Still Relevant After All These Years
Intersectional Political Consciousness: Appreciation for Intragroup Differences and Solidarity in Diverse Groups
This article introduces an intersectional approach to political consciousness and presents data to demonstrate its importance for predicting solidarity in diverse social change organizations. Women activists ( N = 174) completed measures of political consciousness, diversity, and solidarity. As expected, women differed in the degree to which their political consciousness reflected intersectionality (sensitivity to intragroup differences arising f…
What Happens When We Unpack the Invisible Knapsack? Intersectional Political Consciousness and Inter-group Appraisals
Meta‐stereotypes, Social Image and Help Seeking: Dependency‐Related Meta‐stereotypes Reduce Help‐Seeking Behaviour
People who need help can be reluctant to seek it. This can be due to social image concerns. Here, we investigate if these concerns may be prompted by a salient negative meta‐stereotype: the belief that one's group is judged negatively by another group. Specifically, we researched group members' help‐seeking behaviour in the context of a dependency‐related meta‐stereotype. In a two‐condition study ( N = 45), we manipulated participants' belief tha…
Thanks, But No Thanks: Women’s Avoidance of Help-Seeking in the Context of a Dependency-Related Stereotype
The stereotype that women are dependent on men is a commonly verbalized, potentially damaging aspect of benevolent sexism. We investigated how women may use behavioral disconfirmation of the personal applicability of the stereotype to negotiate such sexism. In an experiment ( N = 86), we manipulated female college students’ awareness that women may be stereotyped by men as dependent. We then placed participants in a situation where they needed he…
Hijab , visibility and the performance of identity
Theories concerning the relationship between social identification and behaviour are increasingly attentive to how group members emphasise or de‐emphasise identity‐related attributes before particular audiences. Most research on this issue is experimental and explores the expression of identity‐related attitudes as a function of participants' beliefs concerning their visibility to different audiences. We extend and complement such research with a…
Pathways Housing First for Homeless Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: Program Innovation, Research, and Advocacy
This article describes how the Pathways Housing First (PHF) model of homelessness intervention evolved from a radical idea to the gold standard of service delivery for homelessness intervention programs that serve adults with psychiatric and/or substance abuse diagnoses, not only in the United States, but worldwide. Through the example of PHF we explain how the integration of rigorous research with consumer‐driven service delivery yielded an evid…
Ordinary decent domestic violence’: A discursive analysis of family law judges’ interviews
This study examined judges’ constructions of the ‘best interests of the child’ in child custody and access arraignments where there were allegations of domestic violence within the context of an interview. Using interviews with six Irish District Court judges, a micro-structural discourse analysis enabled the identification of socio-cultural discourses, scientific knowledge and judges’ own values and beliefs biases about custody arraignments in c…
Remembrance, Responsibility, and Reparations: The Use of Emotions in Talk about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
This research aimed to examine the role of collective emotions in the process of political solidarity within the context of debate about reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Analysis of interview data (n = 12) illustrates the creative and flexible ways that White allies delegitimize authority inaction and legitimize majority support for action through strategic use of social categories and collective emotions in their talk about the riot and…
Yesterday Redeemed and Tomorrow Made More Beautiful: Historical Injustice and Possible Collective Selves
This research examines the ways in which talk about reparations for historical injustice demonstrates individuals' ambitions for future collective identities. Interviews with White Tulsans (n = 25) illustrate how discursive temporal constructions justify support for or opposition to reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. It is argued that White Tulsans strategically employed these constructions to either transform or maintain collective identi…
Mastery matters: Consumer choice, psychiatric symptoms and problematic substance use among adults with histories of homelessness
Previous research demonstrated the importance of consumer choice and mastery to residential stability and psychiatric functioning for adults with histories of homelessness. In the present study, we investigated whether these relationships hold, even in the context of problem-related substance misuse. Questionnaire data were collected in Ireland from 101 residents of long-term homeless accommodation in 2010. Hayes' PROCESS macro for mediation and …
From the “reel” world to the “real” world: Subjective experiences of violent fictional entertainment
Fictional violence holds strong appeal for a wide audience. Given this appeal and the public’s concern about it, researchers have extensively investigated whether there is a direct effect of exposure to fictional violence on individuals’ aggressive behaviours. In the present research, we aimed to contribute to the comparatively smaller body of research concerned with factors that motivate individuals to engage with fictional violence. We intervie…
Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Acculturative Stress: Ordinary Privileges, Overt Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being
We examined the relation of two acculturation stressors, exclusion from ordinary privileges and overt discrimination, to two indicators of psychological well-being (i.e., psychiatric symptoms and satisfaction with life) among a diverse sample of immigrant women living in Ireland ( N = 174). We grouped our sample into “visible” immigrant women of color and “nonvisible” White immigrant women. As expected, visible immigrant women reported more exper…
Microsystems of Recovery in Homeless Services: The Influence of Service Provider Values on Service Users’ Recovery Experiences
Highlights Physical health, mental health, and community integration recovery is possible in homelessness. Recovery experiences are predicted by homeless services users’ sense of personal mastery. Personal mastery is predicted by service users’ perceived choice in housing and services. Perceived choice is predicted by homeless service providers’ consumer‐led oriented values. Recovery‐oriented homeless services must enable service users’ self‐dete…
Empowering Features and Outcomes of Homeless Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Home as a Base for a Well-Lived Life: Comparing the Capabilities of Homeless Service Users in Housing First and the Staircase of Transition in Europe
Nussbaum’s Central Capabilities refer to the elements of a well-lived life, and many adults who experience homelessness are deprived of these capabilities. The study aim was to investigate whether service users experience different homeless services as affording or constraining capabilities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with homeless service users (n = 77) in Housing First (HF) and staircase services (SS) in eight European countries. W…
Homeless Adults’ Recovery Experiences in Housing First and Traditional Services Programs in Seven European Countries
Highlights Housing First reports more service user recovery but little is known about how this is achieved. Certain features of homeless services are likely to promote service users’ recovery. Housing First service users reported more choice, better housing quality, and more satisfaction. Service features predicted independent housing, psychiatric symptoms, and community integration. Across socio‐political and economic contexts, Housing First pre…
All immigrants are not alike: Intersectionality matters in views of immigrant groups
In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels of social status. Using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) and factor analysis to examine shared meanings, …
Autonomy and authority: Homeless service users' empowering experiences in housing first and staircase services
Although Housing First (HF) has gained widespread support as a service model to end homelessness, staircase services (SS) continue to proliferate. Critics have argued that SS contribute to institutionalisation and neglect the structural causes of homelessness. However, HF employs an empowerment‐orientated approach which can reduce institutionalisation and enable service users to achieve their potential. In this study, we combined a conceptual fra…
Structure and agency in capabilities‐enhancing homeless services: Housing first, housing quality and consumer choice
The capabilities approach, a framework for understanding and measuring inequality, stipulates that equality is best understood as the freedom to do and be within a particular context. Homelessness has been referred to as a situation of ‘capabilities deprivation’, and the extent to which homeless services restore or enhance capabilities is of increasing interest. As part of a large, eight‐country study of homelessness in Europe, we examined the ex…
Factors Associated with Providers’ Work Engagement and Burnout in Homeless Services: A Cross‐national Study
The complexity of homeless service users’ characteristics and the contextual challenges faced by services can make the experience of working with people in homelessness stressful and can put providers’ well‐being at risk. In the current study, we investigated the association between service characteristics (i.e., the availability of training and supervision and the capability‐fostering approach) and social service providers’ work engagement and b…
You get to understand we are all human beings”: Community solidarity initiatives as spaces of recognition, resistance, and change
In Ireland the Direct Provision system segregates and excludes displaced people from the host community, and informal community solidarity initiatives (CSIs) were established nationwide to address this issue. We examined experiences of intergroup contact in CSIs and related contexts to identify how solidarity is produced, and for whom, through photovoice workshops (Study 1: n = 13) with displaced participants of two CSIs, and interviews (Study 2:…
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