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By Joyce Beckett

ISBN-10: 0231140606

ISBN-13: 9780231140607

ISBN-10: 0231140614

ISBN-13: 9780231140614

Lifting Our Voices is the one e-book to discover the twin roles social staff who're additionally kin caregivers and the one assortment on caregiving within which nearly all of participants are African American. After discussing the appropriate literature, Lifting Our Voices vividly and sensitively offers the caregiving studies of ten expert social employees. utilizing specialist and theoretical wisdom and talents, every one contributor attracts implications for numerous degrees of social paintings and human carrier interventions. those poignant descriptions and analyses recount either the frustrations and obstacles of negotiating social provider organisations and different associations and the fun and triumphs of kin caregiving. Lifting Our Voices frankly discusses how a certified schooling both prepares or fails to equip someone with the abilities for profitable intervention on behalf of a friend. members hail from wealthy and sundry backgrounds, revealing the significance of age, ethnicity, gender, marital prestige, and gerontological services within the perform of family members caregiving.

These essays discover events hardly ever stated on within the literature, akin to caregivers and care recipients who signify the lifespan from preschool to retirement. Lifting Our Voices graphically describes varieties of caregiving which are seldom mentioned, together with simultaneous caregiving to a number of kinfolk and reciprocal and sequential caregiving, hence broadening and refining the very innovations of "caregiving" and "family."

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