Lifting Our Voices : : The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers /

Lifting Our Voices : : The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers / / ed. by Joyce Beckett.

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 sensi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Beckett, Joyce O.,
Bryant, Shirley,
Davis, King E.,
Edwards, Erica,
Everett, Joyce E.,
Grant, Darlene,
Haynes, Yvonne,
Jones, Cynthia,
Netting, F. Ellen,
Peterson, Samuel,
Vaughan, Peter B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Beckett, Joyce,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 3 illus.; 11 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • 1. Caregiving
  • 2. Once, Twice, Always a Caregiver: Career Caregiving for Parents Who Abused Alcohol
  • 3. Responding to My Sister's Addiction: Fostering Resilience in My Nieces
  • 4. Caring for My Grandmother: The Birth of a Gerontological Social Worker
  • 5. Not an Option but a Duty: Caring for My Mother
  • 6. "My Last Born Shall Care for Me and Mine": Caring for Siblings and Mother
  • 7. Caring for My Mother: Four Phases of Caregiving
  • 8. Aunt Doris's Moves
  • 9. Closing Muriel's House: Caring for My Mother
  • 10. Social Worker Husband as Caregiver of Social Worker Wife
  • 11. What Goes Around Comes Around: Career Caregiving in the Caring Village
  • Index

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