Adult Development and Well-Being : The Impact of Institutional Environments

ISBN-13: 9780789036469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 174 str.

Catherine N. Dulmus

Opis

Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development. Adult Development and Well-Being: The Impact of Institutional Environments closely examines this relationship and provides creative strategies to improve outcomes for adults within institutional settings or systems. Leading experts discuss the latest research, offer insightful perspectives on adult development issues, and provide policy recommendations to effectively foster change. This important resource targets specific issues and provides practical answers to questions about how to positively affect human behavior by cultivating well-being.

Spis treści

• A Profile of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren as a Result of Parental Military Deployment (Sheila Grant Bunch, Brenda J. Eastman, and Robin Rene Moore)
• Motivational Style, Length of Residence, Voluntariness, and Gender as Influences on Adjustment to Long Term Care: A Pilot Study (Karin Curtiss, Bert Hayslip, and Diana C. Dolan)
• The Mental Health System and Sense of Self Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness (Diane Weis Farone and Judith Pickens)
• Caregiving and Welfare Reform: Voices of Low-Income Foster Mothers (Filomena M. Critelli)
• The Effects of Residential Institutions on Adult Sexual Adjustment (William S. Rowe)
• Examining the Perceptions of Grandparents Who Parent in Formal and Informal Kinship Care (Sheila G. Bunch, Brenda J. Eastman, and Linner W. Griffin)
• The Impact of Hopelessness and Hope on the Social Work Profession (Andrea K. McCarter)
• Reinforcing the Divide: The Influence of the U.S. Census on American Identity Development (John W. Miller)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Catherine N. Dulmus, Karen M. Sowers