The Effect Homelessness Has On Mental Health
Abstract
Lack of housing is one of the factors that contribute to poor mental health. Homeless means that a person has an inadequate dwelling, a person has no tenure, and a person cannot access social relations, sense of security, and safety. Homelessness is a long lasting life circumstance that affects both children and adult. Various studies have shown that homeless individuals experience mental illness and the condition can worsen as they continue being homeless. A point to note is that not all individual with mental illness are homeless and not all homeless individual has a mental illness. This paper aims at conducting research on "The Effect Homelessness Has on Mental Health". The paper will analyze how mental health and homelessness are related. It will go deeper to discuss how the health of incarcerated individuals declines and how they experience homelessness after being released. The paper will also touch on the homelessness children and mental health, homeless LGBT and mental health, and homeless adults and mental health. My research shows that homeless people are likely to suffer from mental illness and the factors that contribute to the suffering are lack of income, lack of employment, lack of social relation, low self-worth, and other socio-economic characteristics. The research paper recommends that mental health promotion can alleviate mental illness by empowering people and providing them with emotional and spiritual strength. The information is derived from peer-reviewed sources to provide quality and credible information.
- Introduction
- Thesis: adults and children who experience homelessness experience anxiety and depression symptoms. Thus, homelessness is the major environmental factor that contributes to mental illness and to alleviate the mental illness, it is important to work on the stressors such as extreme poverty, family instability, lack of primary care, and provide support to individuals experiencing homelessness.
- Body
- Incarcerated population
- Homeless adults
- Homeless children
- Homeless Black Youth and mental health
- People living with HIV and unstable housing
- Intervention
- Conclusion
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