Foster youth transitions to adulthood: a longitudinal view of youth leaving care.

The well-being of youths who age out of the out-of-home care system in the U.S. has long been of great interest to child welfare practitioners and policymakers.

Stressors, resources, and distress among homeless persons: a longitudinal analysis.

Relations among stressors, resources, and psychological distress were examined using two waves of data obtained from a probability sample of homeless persons (N = 430) residing in a large, demographically diverse county in North California. The focus of research was to examine whether and how social resources and housing resources directly affect distress and mediate the impact of stress factors on depressive symptoms. Path analysis results revealed that levels of psychological distress were responsive to change in objective housing circumstances, with the attainment of domicile status being associated with fewer distress symptoms.

An aid to needy children program: A study of types and responses to casework services.

In a study of an aid- to- needy-children program, a attempt was made to develop a typology and assess the effect of special services on personality, discontinuance and employment. The research design was experimental and sampling random for one part and purposive for another, as special services were available for one group and withheld from a control group. The techniques involved the California Psychological Inventory for the analysis of types and measure of personality change, and discontinuance and employment rates for the measure of the effect of the special services.