Critical Review of the Literature Introduction
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Running head: ARTICLE REVIEWName of the StudentEnding HomelessnessCritical Review of the Literature
ARTICLE REVIEW1 Introduction:The chosen article is written by Dr. Dennis P. Culhane, who is the Andrew stone andDana of Social Policy in Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice. He is also the director ofthe research of the National Center on Homelessness at the United States Veteran AffairsDepartment. Being the director of the organization dealing with the homelessness of the peoplein United States of America, he put effort to write many articles on the subject of homelessness.He is well suited for writing the chosen article because being attached to the research on thehomelessness and assisted housing policy for the homeless people he has observed variousnegative aspects of the homelessness of the people and the plight form the same. The article waspolished in the year 1992 in Pennsylvania, United States of America (Culhane, 1992).Purpose:The purpose of the article is to provide an idea of the model program that for thehomeless women with mental illness. The article aims to states that the successful programs forthe homeless women with mental illness must the comprehensive in scope as well as highlyresponsive to the perspectives of the homeless people. The article provides a wider idea to thereaders about the necessity of the housing programs for mentally sick women. On the other hand,the discourse also sheds lights on the recovering of the mental illness of the homeless women.Along with this, the article presents the ratio of the women who have been recovered theirmental illness to certain extent as well as the ratio of women who returned to the streets butcontinued to receive the outreach service. In short the article is the presentation of the housingprogram for the homeless women with mental sickness and also the implication for suchprograms for serving these women.
ARTICLE REVIEW2Statement of the Problem:The article being a discussion on the homelessness of the people in Philadelphia ispresents the research on the topic which regards to the homeless women with mental disorders.The issue that has been presented in the article is the failure of the initiatives for endinghomelessness of the people with severe illness (Hwang et al., 2012). The major factors that hadbeen identified by the article are the limited resources, lack of coordination in the proposedservice, low utilization of the traditional community mental health service and the disagreementsbetween the homeless people and mental health professionals. The article marks these factors tobe the major forces that are pulling back the initiatives to end the homelessness of the people. Summary of Results:From the comprehensive approach of one of the program called Women of Hope hashelped women from the streets as well as from the homeless communities to have shelters pf thetheir own along with the treatments for the mental illness. The result shows that among thewomen who had been served by the Women of Hope, approximately 38% of women had hadprevious stays in hospitals, 37% had had no such previous stays and the 26% had no specificinformation about their previous residence (Culhane, 1992). It is found that all of the women hadlived on streets for 4.5 years on average. The result also presents the data that all the women whohad been served are within the age group of 50 to 70. However, after a certain period of time, themajority, 73.2% of the women do not anymore live on the streets whereas, the remaining 14.1%returned to the streets.To make the program more successful in order to hold all the women from returning tostreets, the initiatives must be more effective. The result implies that there is the need for
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