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May 2006, Vol 96, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 764
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.084145

LETTER

EXAMINING THE COURSE OF HOMELESSNESS: RIGHT DIRECTION, WRONG APPROACH

Benjamin E. Alexander-Eitzman, MSW, LCSW

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Benjamin E Alexander-Eitzman, MSW, LCSW, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Campus Box 1196, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO 63130-4899 (e-mail: baeitzman@gwbmail.wustl.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

The study of the risk factors associated with the length of homeless episodes in a group of New York shelter residents1 by Caton et al. tells an important and detailed story of the natural history of housing problems, but the individual-level approach taken by the authors represents a problematic trend in research on homelessness. Caton et al. focus on etiological risk factors among the usual suspects—substance use, personality characteristics, demographics, and mental health diagnoses—with some surprising additions, such as childhood family environment and psychosocial adjustment as measured by the Modified Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory.2

The assumption inherent in Caton and . . . [Full Text]




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