First person stories of social work with and on behalf of older adults.

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Product Description

This book, like its predecessors Days in the Lives of Social Workers and More Days in the Lives of Social Workers, highlights the experiences of social workers through first-person narratives. This volume focuses on professional social work in direct and indirect practice with and on behalf of older adults. The contributors to this book are social workers at the BSW, MSW, and doctoral levels. Here are some of the social work practice settings, roles, and topics you will read about: working in communities; hospitals, hospice, and home health; nursing home social work, administration, inspection, and advocacy; addictions, mental illness, and homelessness in older adults; Alzheimer s and Parkinson s diseases; international settings;gerontological research; policy and macro practice; social work student experiences in gerontology; centenarians and their secrets to long life. Gerontological social work is a growing and exciting practice specialty! The stories told by these gerontological social workers will transform your thinking about what this type of work entails. You will gain a better understanding of the issues facing older adults and their social workers, and you may be inspired to pursue this career path. This engaging collection will make a welcome supplement to the theory found in traditional textbooks. Organizations, Web sites, additional readings, and a glossary of terms are included to assist you in further exploring these areas of social work practice. Photographs by social worker/photographer Marianne Gontarz York are featured to expand your visual images of real people as they grow older.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #845674 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 313 pages

About the Author
ABOUT THE EDITORS: Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW, is the founder, publisher, and editor of The New Social Worker, the magazine for social work students and recent graduates, and editor of the books Days in the Lives of Social Workers, More Days in the Lives of Social Workers, and The Field Placement Survival Guide. She has been a social worker in mental health and medical settings, and is a former staff member of two state chapters of the National Association of Social Workers. Dara Bergel Bourassa, Ph.D., MSW, LSW, is an assistant professor of social work and director of the gerontology program at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She received her BSW and MSW from the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. in social work from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 2007.

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A useful book
Much of the information in this book is useful. The lists at the back of the book are informative.
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