Bøger af Mary Powell

This book informs social work students about the context and potential for burnout in their field experience, their first work with clients, and equips them to recognize, prevent, and address it. With its emphasis on role ambiguity and self-care based on current research, the volume uniquely fills the gap in available texts and prepares them for successful professional practice with personal mental health. Job burnout and self-care have received attention in research and education in social work and other caring professions, but social work students must successfully complete managed learning assignments in the field before they can become social workers, and those experiences can put the student at risk for burnout. Until very recently, however, student burnout has been a 'silent' issue in the profession and the literature. With this compact book, readers learn the risks of burnout in field assignments for students and new professionals, the organizational andpersonal factors that contribute to it, appropriate self-care strategies to reduce its incidence, and effective coping strategies to limit its effect. Stakeholders gain understanding about burnout incidence, prevention, and self-care that prepares them to take appropriate preventive and prescriptive action. Burnout in Social Work Field Education: Mitigating the Risk is a timely and essential resource for social work instructors, students, field interns, instructors, and supervisors. It can serve as a supplementary text to aid students in understanding what factors will increase their risk of burnout and help them identify which coping strategies are most likely to be effective, based on research. It is a highly desirable complementary text for adoption in social work courses and in-service education in early social work practice. The book also should interest administrators in social service agencies and presenters of in-service education opportunities for social workers and social work educators.

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What happens when technology goes bad? How do you deal with baby pushers? How do you handle your suffocating fear of the dentist? What do you do if you think your neighbor is spying on you? Spy on them in return, of course. In the tradition of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, this series of short memoirs explores a wide range of everyday topics, including pregnancy, childbirth, concert-going, anxiety, and aging with self-deprecating humor, satire, and raw emotion.

Cheating death doesn't necessarily require the discovery of eternal life. It can simply mean enjoying life, and living it to the fullest to the very end. And that's exactly what four life-long friends who make up the Black Widows do. Previously known as the Foolish Hearts when they were young girls in 1950s Houston, the now grown women reunite in Mexico to plan out their retirement together. All but one of them kick in on a luxurious mountain home in Lake Chapala, but the commitment is more than financial. To put it softly: club membership requires agreeing to a very specific end-of-retirement "out clause."But their new situation in vibrant Mexico rejuvenates their lives physically, mentally, and emotionally. Surrounded by beauty and challenged to learn new ways of thinking, they've never felt better. Their secret pact has nearly become obsolete, until the visit from a gentleman suffering Alzheimer's brings to light a new perspective on their club's somewhat dark origins.The Black Widow Club is a lighthearted and poignant tale of hope, discovery, and realizing that learning and personal growth can happen at any age.

Galveston widow Rose Parrish, 76 years old and in failing health, is coming to grips with her life. Her only companions are her housekeeper, Pearl, her financial advisor, Captain Broussard, and a medical student, Jesse Martin. Mary Powell weaves the separate stories of these people into tale of ""the good life"" and ""the good death"".