The Paradox of Chronic Homelessness: The Conscious Desire to Leave Homelessness and the Unconscious Familiarity of the Street Life

Farrell, Daniel C.

doi:10.1080/10911350903269872

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“…Even after removal from the gang, the trauma caused in Oliver's life by being a member of Fagin's gang continues (Youth.gov, n.d.;Farrell, 2010). Although Oliver was adopted by Mr. Brownlow, "much internal, often unconscious, resistance" can still occur upon leaving the gang environment and homelessness (Ferrell, 2010, 245).…”

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The Disillusion of Victorian Youth: Oliver Twist S Descent Into Gang Life

LaCour¹

2018

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With the inability to secure adequate employment to sustain life, individuals in the Victorian Era developed street gangs as a substitution for jobs. During this era, novelists published writings depicting this rise of street gangs in London. As some of these novelists met harsh consequences due to their realistic representation of these events, Charles Dickens masterfully depicted the disillusion of Victorian youth by embedding the issue of street gangs within his works. Oliver Twist represents street gang activity prominent in the Victorian Era through the characters of Sikes, Fagin, and their adolescent gang members. As a street gang leader, Fagin substitutes as an authoritarian father-figure for homeless adolescents, using methods of psychological abuse as a means to manipulate, coerce, and control the gang members, leading to Oliver's inclusion in the gang. Oliver's experiences in Fagin's gang depict the events of the street gangs during the era as well as the psychological impacts of gang involvement on youth.

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Section: Results Of Gang Membershipmentioning

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The Disillusion of Victorian Youth: Oliver Twist S Descent Into Gang Life

LaCour¹

2018

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“…Sabotage can be characterized as a conscious act, as in a description of case management services in Scotland, where service users were described as sabotaging efforts by providers ''in a willful manner'' (Mitchell et al 1992). In contrast, Farrell (2010) frames the rejection of housing by service users as emanating from an unconscious resistance to changing what has become a deeply familiar life on the streets. Whether framed as unconscious or conscious, when these actions are perceived to be selfsabotage, they are often met with feelings of frustration and anger by providers (Susser et al 1990).…”

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Understanding How Case Managers Use ‘Sabotage’ as a Frame for Clinically Difficult Situations

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Case managers are among the direct service providers responsible for engaging people with severe mental illnesses. Understanding how they interpret and respond to clinically difficult situations can inform ways to intervene and reduce service disengagement. This qualitative study explored clinically difficult situations when case managers invoked the term ''sabotage''. Interviews were conducted with 21 case managers and analyzed by cocoders focusing on how case managers used the term sabotage to describe service user behavior. Themes that emerged were attributing sabotage to; fear of success, fear of attaining what you desire, avoidance of responsibility and change, and a lack of structured support. Drawing on the concepts of clinical case management and mental health recovery, we consider implications for the training and supervision of case managers and how services are structured.

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“…According to Farrell (2010), homelessness is ubiquitous in America and started during the antebellum period in the 1800s. In the 1950s and 1960s, the prototype of a homeless person was a middle-aged White male who often suffered from alcoholism (p. 241).…”

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“…Individual and systemic barriers to adequate health care for persons experiencing chronic homelessness contribute to significant disparities in health outcomes and mortality rates. (p. 152) Farrell (2010) indicated that there is a paradox of chronic homelessness where the chronically homeless have a conscious desire to leave homelessness but an unconscious familiarity with living on the streets. Therefore, many among the chronically homeless population who agree to transitional housing settings stay for only a short period before returning to the familiarity of their life on the street.…”

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Faith and Homelessness: Examining the Influence of the Faith-Based Component of a Transitional Housing Program on the Attitudes and Behaviors of Homeless Men

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The Paradox of Chronic Homelessness: The Conscious Desire to Leave Homelessness and the Unconscious Familiarity of the Street Life

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

The Disillusion of Victorian Youth: Oliver Twist S Descent Into Gang Life

The Disillusion of Victorian Youth: Oliver Twist S Descent Into Gang Life

Understanding How Case Managers Use ‘Sabotage’ as a Frame for Clinically Difficult Situations

Faith and Homelessness: Examining the Influence of the Faith-Based Component of a Transitional Housing Program on the Attitudes and Behaviors of Homeless Men

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