Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 352 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231140606
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0231140614
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0231511957
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9780231140607
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9780231140614
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9780231511957
Content:
Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregivers and the only collection on caregiving in which the majority of contributors are African American. After discussing the relevant literature, Lifting Our Voices vividly and sensitively presents the caregiving experiences of ten professional social workers. Using professional and theoretical knowledge and skills, each contributor draws implications for various levels of social work and human service interventions. These poignant descriptions and analy
Content:
Caregiving / Joyce O. Beckett -- Once, twice, always a caregiver : career caregiving for parents who abused alcohol / Cynthia Jones -- Responding to my sister's addiction : fostering resilience in my nieces / Darlene Grant -- Caring for my grandmother : the birth of a gerontological social worker / Erica Edwards -- Not an option but a duty : caring for my mother / Yvonne Haynes -- "My last born shall care for me and mine" : caring for siblings and mother / Joyce E. Everett -- Caring for my mother : four phases of caregiving / Shirley Bryant -- Aunt Doris's moves / F. Ellen Netting -- Closing Muriel's house : caring for my mother / King E. Davis -- Social worker husband as caregiver of social worker wife / Samuel Peterson -- What goes around comes around : career caregiving in the caring village / Joyce O. Beckett
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
URL:
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