A Typology of Family Housing Insecurity: Impacts of Caregiver Depression and Substance Use.
Housing insecurity is endemic among low-income families. Caregiver mental health is an important factor for predicting family housing risk, but less is known about how it impacts subtypes of housing insecurity. The present study investigates two research questions for a sample of families with adole...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 32; no. 10; pp. 3288 - 3299 |
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