Abstract
The author reports the results of a study about how 200 children between the ages of 6 and 12 understand and cope. with their homelessness. This study is theoretically framed and empirically grounded in the person-in-environment tradition of social work. Data collected through interviews with the children and questionnaires completed by their teachers were subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis. Statistically significant differences in psychosocial functioning in the classroom, personal meaning of homelessness, and coping with concept of self as homeless were found between the 65 children identified as academically successful and the 135 identified as demonstrating academic problems.
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