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Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
Joyce Beckett (Ed.)
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Description for Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
Hardback. Looks at the emotional and organizational dynamics between individuals, couples, and families who provide care, and yet who are also committed to a full time career as a human service professional. This book provides an insight into negotiating social service agencies and other institutions. Editor(s): Beckett, Joyce. Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 illus.; 11 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 374 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
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 analyses recount both the frustrations and barriers of negotiating social service agencies and other institutions and the joys and ... Read more
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 analyses recount both the frustrations and barriers of negotiating social service agencies and other institutions and the joys and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140607
SKU
V9780231140607
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99-1
About Joyce Beckett (Ed.)
Joyce O. Beckett is professor emerita of the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her A.B. from Temple University and her M.S.S. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College, and completed her postdoctoral studies in gerontology at Duke University. Her professional career spans almost forty years and includes clinical work in a variety of agency settings and ... Read more
Reviews for Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
Beckett's remarkable compilation of caregiving narratives provides insight into the diversity of caregiving experiences... Essential. Choice An engaging and accessible text... This book is a strong addition to the caregiving literature and is well recommended.
Leslie Hempling Social Work in Health Care Two things that stand out to this reviewer are the efforts by individuals to impact policy and ... Read more
Leslie Hempling Social Work in Health Care Two things that stand out to this reviewer are the efforts by individuals to impact policy and ... Read more