WWX17: Let's Talk About Grief & Homelessness
Let’s Continue Our Talk About The Generational Effects of Homelessness… This intergenerational trauma is a legacy of grief and loss with biopsychosocial-spiritual, cultural, and neurobiological implications. Participant 19 indicated that, Some say they may have well been homeless because their electricity, water, and gas were off. They were going to the bathroom in the bathtub, and that’s so ingrained in them that they grew up and kind of repeated that cycle of homelessness for themselves. Sangalang and Vang (2017) determined that generational homelessness influences the “health and well-being of descendants of future generations and may include high anxiety, depression, mistrust, a sense of a shortened future, and issues with self-esteem and self-confidence” (p. 749). What society views as abnormal are typical of those that are trapped in the cycle of chronic homelessness. Participant 3 described, Some of the clients started shooting up with their parents when ...