ArticleBehavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)2012
Intervention for homeless, substance abusing mothers: findings from a non-randomized pilot.
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- Interventions to improve the mental health of women experiencing homelessness: A systematic review of the literature.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for reducing parental substance misuse.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Housing stability, employment, and survival behaviors among young mothers experiencing homelessness: A randomized controlled trial of a housing intervention.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of ecologically-based treatment with substance-abusing homeless mothers: substance use and housing outcomes.Journal of substance abuse treatmentTrial
- Housing intervention impacts on parenting stress and child problem behaviors among mothers experiencing homelessness.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Exploring the effect of case management in homelessness per components: A systematic review of effectiveness and implementation, with meta-analysis and thematic synthesis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Non-pharmacologic interventions to improve depression and anxiety among pregnant and parenting women who use substances: An integrative literature review.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Review
- A comprehensive review of prioritised interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of persons with lived experience of homelessness.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Review
- Housing, opportunities, motivation and engagement (HOME) for homeless youth at-risk for opioid use disorder: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
- Cumulative contextual risk and behavior problems among children with substance using mothers: The mediating role of mothers' and children's coping strategies.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2016Article
- Supporting pregnant and parenting women who use alcohol during pregnancy: A scoping review of trauma-informed approaches.Women's health (London, England)Article
- Constructing and identifying predictors of frailty among homeless adults—a latent variable structural equations model approach.Archives of gerontology and geriatricsArticle
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Abstract
Little empirically-based information is available regarding how best to intervene with substance-abusing homeless mothers. This study pilot-tested a comprehensive intervention with 15 homeless women and their 2- to 6-year-old children, recruited from a local family shelter. All participants were offered integrated intervention with three major components. The first component was housing which included 3 months of rental and utility assistance, and these services were not contingent upon women's abstinence from drugs or alcohol. The second and third components included 6 months of case management services and an evidence-based substance abuse treatment (Community Reinforcement Approach; CRA). Analysis revealed that women showed reductions in substance use (F(2,22) = 3.63; p < .05), homelessness (F(2,24) = 25.31; p < .001), and mental health problems (F(2,20) = 8.5; p < .01). Further, women reported reduced internalizing (F(2,22) = 4.08; p < .05) and externalizing problems (F(2,24) = 7.7; p = .01) among their children. The findings suggest that the intervention is a promising approach to meet the multiple needs of this vulnerable population. These positive outcomes support the need for future research to replicate the findings with a larger sample using a randomized design.
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