A Comparative Study of Informal Support Networks in Culver City, California
Author : Lara Jan Descartes
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Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Lara Jan Descartes
Publisher :
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2002
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : American Anthropological Association
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Anthropology
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Page : 764 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Power resources
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Author : Joseph R. Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313068690
Libraries enter into strategic planning by a variety of routes, from dynamic technology and rising costs to budget cuts and pressure for change. In this book, Joe Matthews guides library managers towards a greater understanding of the role and attendant responsibilities of strategic planning. Academic, public, and special librarians alike will benefit from Matthews' cogent explanations, real-life examples, and time-tested recommendations. In the process, Matthews addresses such intrinsic questions as: Why is it important that I add strategic thinking to my managerial arsenal? How will strategic planning benefit my library, and is there more than one way to go about it? What is the best way of monitoring and updating our strategic plan for maximum effect? In each case, he debunks false impressions, attends to the goal of providing good service, and identifies at least one new way to communicate the library's strategic importance in the lives of its customers. Academic, public, and special librarians alike will benefit from Matthews' cogent explanations, real-life examples, and time-tested recommendations.
Author : Thomasina Borkman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004448004
Social science research on self-help/mutual aid groups and organizations from 1960 on is reviewed. Voluntary peer-run mutually supportive groups’ diversity illustrated through Alcoholics Anonymous, mental health groups and others. Socio-political contexts shape self-help/mutual aid. Borkman’s autoethnographic narrative highlights her participation.
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Employee fringe benefits
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Author : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1794755136
Motivation is key to substance use behavior change. Counselors can support clients' movement toward positive changes in their substance use by identifying and enhancing motivation that already exists. Motivational approaches are based on the principles of person-centered counseling. Counselors' use of empathy, not authority and power, is key to enhancing clients' motivation to change. Clients are experts in their own recovery from SUDs. Counselors should engage them in collaborative partnerships. Ambivalence about change is normal. Resistance to change is an expression of ambivalence about change, not a client trait or characteristic. Confrontational approaches increase client resistance and discord in the counseling relationship. Motivational approaches explore ambivalence in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2004-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309092116
In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.
Author : Rosemary Blieszner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313381747
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art textbook and reference volume in family gerontology reviews and critiques the recent theoretical, empirical, and methodological literature; identifies future research directions; and makes recommendations for gerontology professionals. This book is both an updated version of and a complement to the original Handbook of Families and Aging. The many additions include the most recent demographic changes on aging families, new theoretical formulations, innovative research methods, recent legal issues, and death and bereavement, as well as new material on the relationships themselves—sibling, partnered, and intergenerational relationships, for example. Among the brand-new topics in this edition are step-family relationships, aging families and immigration, aging families and 21st-century technology, and peripheral family ties. Unlike the more cursory summaries found in textbooks, the essays within Handbook of Families and Aging, Second Edition provide thoughtful, in-depth coverage of each topic. No other book provides such a comprehensive and timely overview of theory and research on family relationships, the contexts of family life, and major turning points in late-life families. Nevertheless, the contents are written to be engaging and accessible to a broad audience, including advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, and gerontology practitioners. Serious lay readers will also find this book highly informative about contemporary family issues.