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作者

Brendan Pearl;Prof. Carol Harvey;Prof. Lisa Brophy

来源

HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY,Vol.,Issue

语言

英文

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作者单位

a Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;b NorthWestern Mental Health, Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia;c Hope St Youth and Family Services, Brunswick, Australia;a Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;b NorthWestern Mental Health, Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia;d Psychosocial Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia;e School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia;f Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;g Mind Australia, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

摘要

Despite years of policy attention and increasing intervention, the numbers of young people experiencing homelessness in Australia continue to increase. Previous meta-theoretical approaches to understanding homelessness amongst young people are largely unable to explain the conditions which enable young people to exit homelessness and maintain stable housing. We put forward Critical Realism as a way of overcoming the limitations of the main approaches which have been used to date: Empiricism, Interpretivism, and Interactionism/Epidemiology. The meta-theoretical assumptions made by Critical Realism can allow researchers to more robustly explain what enables young people to exit homelessness and maintain stable housing by identifying what it is about the structures and mechanisms, or the absence of these structures and mechanisms, which leads to this outcome. By using a Critical Realist approach, we hope to be able to contribute to more robust explanations of how young people exit homelessness and maintain housing.