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The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions - A Teaching Casebook (Hardcover)
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The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions - A Teaching Casebook (Hardcover)
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Use these fascinating first-person accounts to bring real-world
problems into the classroom!The Use of Personal Narratives in the
Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook is a collection of
personal narratives, short stories, and poetry about mental illness
and other life-affecting problems, mostly in the context of family
life. Each selection is accompanied by questions for discussion;
selected reading lists are provided with each chapter. Beginning
with problems related to childhood, the stories range through
adolescence, adulthood, and old age. This unique book provides
students and educators in psychology, social work, and counseling
with an in-depth understanding of various mental illnesses and
psychosocial problems through the life cycle. Its stories and
narratives give students the unique opportunity to experience "from
the inside" what it is like to live with an eating disorder or
struggle with a compulsion phobia. The Use of Personal Narratives
in the Helping Professions is more than a teaching tool. These
stories are more than thought provoking, more than simply
insightful. They are truly fascinating--each a candid,
no-holds-barred glimpse into the personal reality of its
narrator--and will inspire the kind of discussions that the best
courses and instructors are remembered for. Your students will most
likely have finished the book before the class has finished
discussing the first chapter! With The Use of Personal Narratives
in the Helping Professions, your students will explore: family
relationships under various types of stress how families cope with
physical illness what happens to the family when a loved one
struggles with mental illness the impact of racial issues the
effects of sexual abuse and domestic violence the process of
healing from childhood trauma . . . and much more! The Use of
Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions provides first-hand
knowledge of what the loss of a parent to death, mental illness, or
alcoholism feels like to the child; of how "coming out" as a
lesbian affects one's life; of the love and frustration of having a
mentally handicapped sibling; of what it's like to lose one's
memory in old age. No academic description can convey the feelings,
meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness
or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based
on direct experience--exactly what you'll find in The Use of
Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions--can offer this
perspective.
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