Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers

Joyce O. Beckett

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Paper, 384 pages, 3 illus.; 11 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14061-4
$29.50 / £20.50

September, 2008
Cloth, 384 pages, 3 illus.; 11 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14060-7
$90.00 / £62.00

Foreword xi

Acknowledgments xv

List of Contributors xvii

1 Caregiving

Joyce O. Beckett 1

2 Once, Twice, Always a Caregiver: Career Caregiving for Parents Who Abused Alcohol

Cynthia Jones 43

3 Responding to My Sister’s Addiction: Fostering Resilience in My Nieces

Darlene Grant 73

4 Caring for My Grandmother: The Birth of a Gerontological Social Worker

Erica Edwards 101

Related Subjects

• Gerontology
• Social Work and the Family

About the Author

Joyce O. Beckett is professor emerita of the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her A.B. from Temple University and her M.S.S. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College, and completed her postdoctoral studies in gerontology at Duke University. Her professional career spans almost forty years and includes clinical work in a variety of agency settings and private practice.

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