Abstract

Homelessness is a condition that adversely affects the spirit, mind, and body of an individual. Homeless mothers are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population and are a vulnerable, at-risk group. Current strategies for care of the homeless focus primarily on providing food and shelter, strategies that keep them alive, but give only temporary help. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore the experience of homelessness from the perspective of formerly homeless mothers and to describe and discover the process whereby they navigated the pitfalls of homelessness and got off the streets into stable housing.

Description

This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3221155; ProQuest document ID: 305348451. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Pamela M. H. Cone, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, CNS

Sigma Membership

Iota Sigma

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Grounded Theory

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Homeless Mothers, Overcoming Homelessness, Poverty Recovery

Advisor

Catherine M. Waters

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of California, San Francisco

Degree Year

2006

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2019-12-05

Full Text of Presentation

wf_yes

Download

Share

COinS