Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights [With DVD]

ISBN-13: 9780470227503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 264 str.

Jeffrey A. Kottler; Mike Marriner

Opis

By supporting others and promoting change, helping professionals also enjoy the benefit of personal growth. Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own is filled with narratives from individuals from social work, psychology, counseling, and allied health fields. Inspiring and stirring, this book vividly illustrates how to promote social justice and foster global human rights. Its accompanying DVD features stories from a social justice mission to Nepal reaching out to neglected children. Students and professionals will find this book a profound reminder of how targeted social justice efforts have resulted in transformative experiences. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Recenzje

" a small easy–to read volume. They write in a very informal way, designed to encourage people to get out there and do something to help others as a means to find their own passion. This is a book that might be useful for a course in service learning because there are sections that discuss topics such as helping skills, especially listening and altruism, and there are scholarly references to other material." ( PsycCRITIQUES, November 11, 2009)

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

PART I: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.

CHAPTER 1: Paths to Social Justice.

CHAPTER 2: The Dance of Hope.

CHAPTER 3: Children Disappearing.

CHAPTER 4: Stories of Despair and Resilience.

PART II: STORIES OF IMPACT.

CHAPTER 5: Road Trip.

CHAPTER 6: Being Lost.

CHAPTER 7: Student Transformations.

CHAPTER 8: Making Universal Connections.

CHAPTER 9: Lessons and Major Themes.

PART III: TAKING ACTION.

CHAPTER 10: Relationship Skills for Promoting Constructive Action.

CHAPTER 11: Travel That Can Change Your Life.

CHAPTER 12: International Jetsetters.

CHAPTER 13: Local Community Activists.

CHAPTER 14: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally.

CHAPTER 15: Going Small.

References and Resources.

About the Authors.

About the DVD.

O autorze

Jeffrey A. Kottler is author of On Being a Therapist, and The Mummy at the Dining Room Table (both from Wiley), among many other books. He is Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton. He also established the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which is devoted to helping the most neglected children of Nepal.

Mike Marriner is the cofounder of Roadtrip Nation and coauthor of Roadtrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path in Life. He has also coproduced the annual Roadtrip Nation television series that airs nationally on PBS, and has been featured on NBC′s Today show, CNN, CBS News, BBC World News, and NPR.

Blurb

A book of hope, of resilience, and of passionate and courageous efforts to change people′s lives far beyond the narrow scope of your own community and immediate circle of influence

Imbued with both a fitting sense of urgency and a profound sense of hope, Changing People′s Lives While Transforming Your Own tells the stories of faculty, students, and professionals from a variety of fields who reached out to others after witnessing an injustice, poverty, or need in the lives of the most neglected and marginalized in society and in reaching out, were transformed through the process of helping others.

Coauthored by two individuals who have devoted their careers to making a difference in the lives of others, this stirring book is a call to action, for both the young and young at heart, and is filled with inspiring and real–life narratives from individuals from a broad range of helping professions such as¿social work, psychology, and counseling.

Changing People′s Lives While Transforming Your Own introduces you to the basic concepts related to social justice, global human rights, service learning, community activism, and altruism, with a look at:

• The elements that are often part of service learning, social justice, and charitable work including the joys, satisfactions, frustrations, and crushing disappointments

• Why people help, how they do it, and what they get out of their efforts

• Suggestions for how to create the kind of experiences likely to be the most satisfying and transformative

• Countless opportunities for readers to stand up for the rights of those who are oppressed

In addition to an accompanying DVD featuring stories, insights, and lessons culled from a social justice mission to Nepal, Changing People′s Lives While Transforming Your Own encourages readers to be better world citizens in the cause of promoting human freedom and equality. It shows how even modest efforts on a small scale can have profound effects, offering a vision of social justice in which professionals in a variety of fields can promote change as advocates, activists, and leaders.