A new study finds a strong correlation between the bonds homeless preschoolers form with teachers and their risk of behavioral and emotional problems.
“It’s well established that children who are homeless are at higher risk of a wide variety of negative outcomes,” says Mary Haskett, professor of psychology at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of the paper, published in the
Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk. “However, there’s a lot of variability within this group. We wanted to learn more about what makes some of these children more resilient than others.”
For the study, researchers drew on survey and interview data from parents and teachers about 314 children participating in the Head Start preschool program.
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