ABSTRACT

Housing First (HF) provides independent accommodation in the community to Multiply Excluded Homeless (MEH) adults. The principle of “choice and control” is central to the model and has been positioned as an effective mechanism for enabling MEH adults to guide their recovery or desistance. However, the theoretical literature on decision-making emphasizes that individual choices are influenced by a complex range of factors.

This article describes how Situational Action Theory (SAT) can be adapted to guide a detailed qualitative analysis of how MEH adults make choices. It is argued that the SAT can support a better understanding of the complex personal and environmental factors that influence individual choices during journeys of recovery and desistance. The article presents two vignettes using data from a longitudinal study of an HF service to show how SAT was used to make sense of key choices made by MEH adults.

摘要

Housing First (HF) 在社区内为多重排斥的无家可归 (MEH) 成年人提供独立住宿。“选择和控制”的原则是该模型的核心，并已被定位为使 MEH 成年人能够指导他们恢复或停止的有效机制。然而，关于决策的理论文献强调个人选择受到一系列复杂因素的影响。

本文描述了情境行动理论 (SAT) 如何适用于指导对 MEH 成年人如何做出选择的详细定性分析。有人认为，SAT 可以支持更好地理解复杂的个人和环境因素，这些因素会影响个人在恢复和停止旅程中的选择。本文使用 HF 服务纵向研究的数据展示了两个小插曲，以展示如何使用 SAT 来理解 MEH 成年人所做的关键选择。