| Description |
1 online resource (854 pages) |
|
text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Childhood; The Killing Jar; My Tenth Year; Land Where Our Fathers Died ... ; The Orange Coat; Wanderer; Learning; Mother's Savage Wait; Somebody Else's Making; A Father's Love; Lisa's Ritual, Age Ten; Willie and Winston; Two Mean Boys; Part II: Adolescence; Bonfires; Double Fuselage Model; Liberty Seventeen; Drive; Soldier Boy; Part III: Family Relationships in Adulthood; On Not Being Seen; Mother Stew; Elaine; Daddy's Girls; Coffee, 7 a.m.; Cigarettes. |
|
Paper PlatesThe Answer Is: Grocery Bags; Downstairs Apartment; The Gravity Machine; Part IV: Other Issues of Adulthood; The Invisibility Syndrome; Against the Odds; Hag; Telling Mr. M.; Dance Away; The Self Family; Part V: Physical Illness; When I Was Old; Beauty Shop; The Price of Admission; Stroke; Dear Doctor; What If?; When Your Surgeon Is the Muse; Part VI: Surviving and Healing Childhood Trauma; The Ring of Truth; Letter to Margaret; Hurt; A Sharp Feel; Sacrifice; Part VII: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; The Color of Disorder; Step on a Crack, Break Your Mother's Back. |
|
Prone to PanicGoing to Pieces; Through the Woods, Darkly; Mood Disorders; Karen; Dry Dock; Mad Colored Woman: A Memoir of Manic Depression; Madwoman: A Mental Health Professional Living with Mental Illness; Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders; The Sleep of Reason; Searching the Headlights; Dissociative Disorders; Dissociative Identity Disorder; A Narrative of Survival; Eating Disorders; The Shape of Things; Two Raisinets and a Corn Flake; Substance Abuse; That Goddamned van Gogh; I Lost You to Liquor; Mother, We're Going for a Ride; Diagnosis Problems; Look So Normal. |
|
In Search of a DiagnosisPart VIII: Families Coping with Mental Illness; Fear; Mary and John; The Fool on the Hill; Just Wondering; Sometimes I Pretend You Are Dead; Hostages; The Pass; Shocking Mother: A Memoir of Mental Illness and Recovery; My Mother Is Back; All Good Things Happen Below the Belt; Part IX: Practice in an Imperfect System; Rose Cottage; One Flew East, One Flew West; At the Bottom of the Ocean: Remembering the Psych Ward; Kaiser Mental Health-1998; Caseworker; This One; Case Summary: Homer Human; Juniper and the Balance in Life; The Women's Group; Part X: Old Age. |
|
From the Perspective of the Elderly PersonTime's Winged Chariot; Old Age; Cerebral Dust; From the Perspective of the Caretaker; Growing Old in an Alien Land; With Respect to Reba; Peaches; Sounds; Flying Time. |
| Summary |
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 a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social work education -- Biographical methods.
|
|
Social work education -- Biographical methods. |
|
Mental health education -- Biographical methods.
|
|
Mental health education -- Biographical methods. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Heriot, Jessica K.
|
|
Polinger, Eileen J.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Munson, Carlton. Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions : A Teaching Casebook. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780789009180 |
| ISBN |
9781317789284 (electronic book) |
|
1317789288 (electronic book) |
|
9781317789291 |
|
1317789296 |
|
