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Author : Stephanie Adams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0979369436
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Guardian written by Stephanie Adams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald de Montigny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351200739
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Conversation Analysis for Social Work written by Gerald de Montigny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the stories youth in state care tell about life in their family of origin? What stories do they tell us about coming into care, living in care, and relationships with foster-parents and social workers? This book presents the stories of youth in care, though not in splendid isolation, but as interactively produced, turn by turn in interviews, and in conversations with other youth. By using tools from conversation analysis (CA), the author examines interviews with youth in care and social workers, to unfold the essential and incorrigible reflexivity of story production. CA allows us to grasp the ways that a youth’s story emerges turn by turn, and is an artefact of a social relation between a youth and an interviewer. This text provides social work readers with a sense of art, artistry, and ambiguity at the heart of social interaction. It will be required reading for all social work students and academics looking for a deeper, more philosophical understanding of the profession.
Author : Dorthea L. Hughes
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683501489
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Hushed Cries written by Dorthea L. Hughes and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Child Help, at least five children die from abuse and neglect every day. The ones who survive walk away with an everlasting scar in their hearts. Dorthea L. Hughes’s honest, vulnerable, yet ultimately victorious memoir about surviving child sexual abuse will encourage others in similar situations, serve as a precautionary tale to keep them from going down the all-too- common path of self-destruction, and help those who care about young people recognize the warning signs and stop the abuse from continuing.
Author : Cynthia R. Greenlee
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 155861284X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book The Echoing Ida Collection written by Cynthia R. Greenlee and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Founded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who-like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett-believe the "way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. The Echoing Ida Collection gathers the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett"--
Author : Gilbert J. Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195162625
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Solution-oriented Social Work Practice written by Gilbert J. Greene and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often in practice, there is a tendency to pathologize clients, requiring a diagnosis as part of the helping relationship. Suppose, however, that most of the client problems that social workers encounter have more to do with the vagaries of life and not with what clients are doing wrong. This powerful idea is the philosophy behind the strengths-based approaches to social work. This groundbreaking practice handbook takes this concept one step further, combining the different strengths-based approaches into an overarching model of solution-oriented social work for greater impact. The strengths perspective emphasizes client strengths, goal-setting, and a shared definition of positive outcome. Solution-focused therapy approaches ongoing problems when they have temporarily abated, amplifying exceptions as solutions. This natural but rarely explored pairing is one component in the challenging and effective practice framework presented here by the authors, two seasoned practitioners with over 50 years of combined experience. By integrating the most useful aspects of the major approaches, a step-by-step plan for action emerges. With this text in hand, you will: - Integrate elements from the strengths perspective, solution-focused therapy, narrative therapy, and the strategic therapy of the Mental Research Institute (the MRI approach) into an effective and eclectic framework - Build and practice your skills using case examples, transcripts, and practical advice - Equip yourself with the tools you need to emphasize clients' strengths - Challenge the diagnosis-first medical model of behavioral health care - Collaborate with clients to get past thinking (first-order change), and more to acting "outside the box" (second-order change) - Learn to work with a wide variety of clients, including individuals, groups, and families; involuntary clients; clients with severe mental illness; and clients in crisis For any student or practitioner interested in working with clients towards collaborative and empowering change, this is the essential text.
Author : Lucille Rosengarten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000156729
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care written by Lucille Rosengarten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore how community-based networks can effectively meet the needs and problems of sick, elderly people and their caregivers!Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care: The Blending of Traditional Practice with Cooperative Strategies explores how social workers, aides, nurses, administrators, and policy makers can cooperatively work by maintaining appropriate health records in order to keep the elderly living at home. Based on the author’s twenty-five years of social work experience in geriatric home care case management, this book explores improved ways to organize home health care by use of cooperative strategies in order to assist older individuals in living independent lives at home. Complete with informative case studies and interviews, you will explore useful examples of geriatric social work practice through Concerned Home Managers for the Elderly, (COHME) a nonprofit, licensed home health care agency. Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care examines many crucial geriatric care and case management issues of concern to geriatric social workers, including: offering meaningful and fulfilling work as a home health care aide providing high-quality training and ongoing education for home care aides creating a cooperative environment by encouraging staff, social workers, and nurses to share expertise with the case management coordinators who are responsible for placing the geriatric patient at home or in a special care facility involving the client in the management of his or her own health care creating concise, one-page reports for each home visit by using a “One-Sheet” to help you extract case assessments and plans for your geriatric client in a readily accessible format dealing with state regulatory authorities and the general trend in home health care to place the elderly in nursing homes paying careful attention to financial and administrative problems within your organization while striving to remain true to your original mission of providing at-home careSocial Work in Geriatric Home Health Care will help you explore a different way of organizing home health care for the sick and elderly at a time when the percentage of people over sixty-five who will require care is rapidly increasing. This important book works to improve the case management of geriatric people and challenges home health care workers and legislators to become more progressive in their thinking about the direction in which geriatric health care should move at the turn of the century. With this vital book, you will gain insight into organized and cooperative methods of providing home health care for the elderly and find improved methods for managing your geriatric cases to give your clients optimum care.
Author : J. S. Frankel
Publisher : eXtasy Books
ISBN 13 : 1487419880
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)
Download or read book The Incredible Aunty Awesomesauce written by J. S. Frankel and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have no concept of how bad I can be."
Author : Catherine J. Tompkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131782475X
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence written by Catherine J. Tompkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspire the next generation of gerontological social workers The growing number of people over the age of 65 in the United States has increased the demand for social workers who are trained to work with the elderly—a demand that’s in danger of not being met. Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence presents innovative techniques and strategies to help educators infuse aging content into their graduate and undergraduate curriculums in an effort to produce a new generation of social work practitioners who are up to the task of working with an older population. Recent surveys show that there has been a decline in the number of aging specialties and courses offered by schools of social work. Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence offers a renewed focus on the promotion of gerontological social work education, presenting papers that grew out of the first National Gerontological Social Work Conference (NGSWC), held in 2003. This unique book is invaluable to anyone who educates future social workers, leads staff training sessions, and/or teaches continuing education courses on aging. Leading gerontologists examine teaching research, community collaboration, and social work competencies, while focusing on special populations and issues including end-of-life care, elder abuse, grief counseling, cultural diversity, cultural competence, and the effects of spirituality and social support on the well being of the elderly. Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence examines: curricular and organizational change developing intergenerational projects involving older persons in the educational process uniting field practice with theory strategies to promote student interest identifying geriatric competencies intergenerational service learning developing an aging prepared community emerging trends in aging and health care end-of-life care and death education environmental issues affecting elder abuse victims mental health services for older persons in rural communities kinship care and much more Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence is a vital resource for social work educators and practitioners, gerontology educators and practitioners, and students.
Author : Ella Walker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984565133
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Aunt Jessica written by Ella Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written so that I could share what it was like for me to move into someone’s home who is not related to me. I experienced a lot of different emotions while I was living there. It is scary to have to trust strangers with your very life—physical and emotional. I came from a dysfunctional background. I was very intimidated for a while. I wanted the children who are facing similar challenges in their life to realize not all strangers are out to use and abuse you. I was very blessed to be placed with these people. There are some unhealthy foster homes, but credit is to be given to the ones who opened their hearts and minds to the hurting children of the world.
Author : Angel Bartlett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452054053
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Wounded, But Not Broken written by Angel Bartlett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wounded, but not broken is a young girl's true story of abuse and neglect, at the hands of her mother, father and other family members. After removal from her parents she was placed in foster care only to begin a long equally destructive journey through a troubled foster care system. Wounded, but not broken she turned this period of adversity into a life triumph, taking control of her destiny and reversing her circumstances. This book is the story of strength, courage, and resiliency. This is a must read for Judges, probation officers, social workers and anyone working in the human service Field. Anyone that has ever had to endure abuse, addictions or any type of setback will be empowered to challenge their future once they have read this book.
Author : James O'connor
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595391478
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Cuss Control written by James O'connor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALLY-THE CURE FOR THE COMMON CURSE! Faced with an epidemic of profanity, our country is in need of practical suggestions for breaking a habit that has ordinary citizens contributing to the decline of civility and good manners. It's not always easy to resist the urge to cuss, but foul language creates an unfavorable image, is damaging to relationships, and goes hand-in-hand with a negative attitude. Now, James V. O'Connor-founder of the Cuss Control Academy-offers the first book to explain why we swear and how we can learn to hold our tongues. Cuss Control doesn't call for the total elimination of swearing, just for its confinement to situations where extreme emotion (think hammer, think thumb) demand it. His program for easing us off the gutter-talk highway involves alternative "potent phrases" for classic curses, including the F-word; ways to communicate clearly rather than use lazy language; and tips on adjusting our attitude and abolishing obscenities. Packed with practical exercises and tips, as well as thoughtful reflection on how we've worked ourselves up into such a state of affairs, Cuss Control is a refreshing celebration of the joys of a civil tongue. "O'Connor is not ready to rid the world of dirty words. He just thinks less cursing is the key to a less stressful world, and maintains that even natural-born cursers can learn to control their anger along with their language." -Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Author : Roberta S. Kuriloff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647424968
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Framing a Life written by Roberta S. Kuriloff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a blustery Maine day, thirty-nine-year-old Roberta Kuriloff found herself standing on a plot of land purchased with her former partner, holding a couple of wood stakes to mark off exactly where her new house would sit. No longer their land. No longer their dream. Now, just hers. Immersed in a world of blueprints, materials, contractors, and critters, Roberta confronted the major losses she’d suffered in her life—in particular the deaths of her mother and aunt from cancer and her separation from her father and brother during her placement in an orphanage—and to try to understand how those losses had shaped the woman, lawyer, and activist she’d become. As she cleared land, hammered nails, lifted beams, and shivered in her rented mobile home, the answers began to come to her. Roberta soon found love again, with a woman named Nancy . . . only to lose her abruptly just one year later in a car accident. Her grief over Nancy’s death, and the psychic and out-of-body events she experienced following that loss, led to an eight-year spiritual quest where she explored her Jewish roots, the Kabbalah, Buddhism, and reincarnation. As she healed, new love beckoned with Bernice—and at long last Roberta found that intrinsic sense of self, that unshakable foundation of heart and soul, that home, that she’d been searching for all along.
Author : Nigel Cooper
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473527791
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Boy written by Nigel Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My parents had to try for eighteen months to conceive me, but my father was adamant he wanted one last child. After eighteen months of trying, my mother eventually conceived and nine months later I was born. My birth was a difficult one. It was like I was never meant to be in this world.” Boy is Nigel Cooper’s memoir from the age of five to sixteen. It tells the shocking, brutal, disturbing, emotional story of his childhood spent in and out of various care homes and institutions during the 1970s and 1980s. When Nigel was just seven years old, after the untimely death of his sister and father, his mother asked social services to take him away – and then his nightmare began. For the next nine years of his life, Nigel was repeatedly rejected by his mother and spent his childhood among bullies, abusers, psychopaths and criminals. He spent time in a children’s psychiatric hospital, where they carried out unimaginable tests, pumped him full of drugs and physically abused him; care homes, where he would come face to face with rough estate kids who would beat him up, force him to steal for them and threaten his life; and barbaric assessment centres for disturbed and delinquent children, where the staff were, at times, sicker than the children. The system tried to break Nigel and it was a miracle that he survived. The British care system robbed him of his childhood. His story is truly extraordinary and will do a lot more than shed light on what it was like growing up during the Jimmy Savile years. Boy is powerfully written, edgy, gripping and beautifully crafted.
Author : Jim Greer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473965721
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers written by Jim Greer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social work in the 21st century is facing great change and upheaval in a period of Government austerity measures. From worsening pay rates to limited resources, these are increasingly challenging times in which social workers practice. It is therefore important that social work students are prepared for the realities of working within the modern social care system - that they have the tools and skills to care for themselves, and not just others. This book is a straightforward guide on how to cope with the stress and pressures of today’s social work environment by developing the right skills and knowledge. It will help students learn from a very early stage how to be at their best; from developing strategies to look after themselves and making the best use of supervision to the support they need to dealing with bullies and/or difficult people - all essential guidance on how to improve their health and mental wellbeing and prepare them to manage the challenges they will face.
Author : Cathy Glass
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008380430
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Too Scared to Tell: Part 3 of 3: Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story. written by Cathy Glass and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART 3 OF 3 The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.
Author : Theresa Cheung
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849830223
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book An Angel Spoke to Me written by Theresa Cheung and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theresa Cheung, author of the Sunday Timesbestselling, An Angel HealedMe, returns with a brand new collection of astonishing true stories about the many different ways our guardian angels speak to us and reveal their divine messages of comfort, guidance and inspiration. The remarkable and honest accounts in An Angel Spoke to Meare proof that extraordinary things can and do happen to ordinary people, healing and transforming their lives in the process. These remarkable stories of angelic intervention remind us that there is so much more to this life than we will ever know. From out of nowhere, in our troubled world, our angels can send us much needed messages of comfort, mercy, goodness and love from the other side.
Author : Jenni Ogden
Publisher : Sea Dragon Press
ISBN 13 : 0473629631
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Call My Name written by Jenni Ogden and published by Sea Dragon Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women, bound together by opposite personalities, friendship, love and family—until motherhood rips them apart. From Jenni Ogden, author of bestselling novel A Drop in the Ocean (Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction) comes a compelling family saga set in the Australian Tropics and spanning the 1960s to 1990s. Her mother dead from a drug overdose, thirteen-year-old Olivia is rescued by Cathie Tulloch, her mother’s friend throughout the years they were held captive in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra in WWII. Welcomed into the Tulloch’s remote family home in the Australian tropics, introverted Olivia is claimed by dramatic, generous, controlling Cassandra Tulloch as her sister and best friend. Moving to the UK at 18, Olivia finds her independence, and partner Ben. But in 1970, after five years away, she is homesick, and ready to fulfill her long-held dream: to make a family of her own. In Brisbane she and Ben share a hippie lifestyle with Cassandra and husband, Sebastian. But while earth-mother Cassandra effortlessly produces beautiful babies, for Olivia, becoming a mother is hard. Even harder is discovering the truth about her own mother. And when the unimaginable happens, destroying the friendship with Cassandra that has been her bedrock for so long, Olivia tells herself that she doesn’t deserve a family, nor a place to call home. Praise from Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife & When the Stars Go Dark "An emotionally piercing and absorbing account of turbulent female friendship over time, Call My Name is also a keen meditation on the powerful pull of connection and belonging—the places and people that shape and change us, forever calling us home." Editorial Reviews “A gripping story that’s hard to put down—draws the reader into complex and deeply human questions as her characters’ lives intertwine over three decades of joy, loss, grief, and below it all, like a sustaining chord, loyalty and kindness. Call My Name reminds us that love calls us to be generous rather than possessive and that we can go on, even when terrible things happen, because we’re profoundly connected. Layered, sometimes shocking, yet shining with goodness and hope, it’s exactly the kind of story we need right now.” —Barbara Linn Probst, Sarton and Nautilus award-winning author of The Sound Between the Notes & The Color of Ice "Jenni Ogden's done it again—given us a beautifully crafted novel filled with the complexities, mysteries and joys of human connection within a family and between sisters, lovers and friends. Filled with authenticity, compassion and grace, Call My Name will find its way deep into your heart and soul, and stay with you long after the last page has been turned." —Sally Cole-Misch, Award-winning author of The Best Part of Us “Vivid setting, dynamic plot, and likable characters come together beautifully to deliver an emotionally compelling tale of friendship, love, loss, and forgiveness. Call My Name is a fantastic read.” —Jodi Wright, Award-winning author of How to Grow an Addict & Eat and Get Gas. “This is a love story ... of couples, of friends, of families. A page turning saga that is fresh in its story, yet provides the warmth of an old-fashioned classic. —Romalyn Tilghman, Award-winning author of To the Stars with Difficulties, 2018 Kansas Notable Book of the Year "...so intense and raw that I choked up a few times…brings out the true essence of friendship… Powerful and inspirational" —Readers Favorite, 5 Star Review “…realistic, pulled at my heartstrings… unforgettable characters…A masterpiece” —Readers Favorite, 5 Star Review
