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Increasing Resilience Among People Who Are Homeless

In: Industrial and Organizational Psychology Help the Vulnerable

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  • Binna Kandola

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Peter was homeless. He was not an alcoholic nor was he a drug abuser. He had been a self-employed painter and decorator with a good income and regular business. Married with two children, his life was stable and everything seemed content. With the advent of the global recession, his work dried up, his house was repossessed, and he and his wife separated. Not having close family ties to support him he became one of the invisible homeless, relying on his friends to let him sleep in spare rooms and sofas. This is not the stereotypical image that one has of a homeless person and shows how, because of a coincidence of circumstances, a lot of people could find themselves without a permanent dwelling. Peter was one of the many people that we encountered in our work with homeless people.

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  • Binna Kandola, 2014. "Increasing Resilience Among People Who Are Homeless," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Walter Reichman (ed.), Industrial and Organizational Psychology Help the Vulnerable, chapter 11, pages 186-203, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32773-4_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137327734_11
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