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The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780789009197

  • ISBN10:

    0789009196

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-02-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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 and educators in psychology, social work, and counseling with an in-depth understanding of various mental illnesses and psychosocial problems through the life cycle. Its stories and narratives give students the unique opportunity to experience "from the inside" what it is like to live with an eating disorder or struggle with a compulsion phobia. The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions is more than a teaching tool. These stories are more than thought provoking, more than simply insightful. They are truly fascinating--each a candid, no-holds-barred glimpse into the personal reality of its narrator--and will inspire the kind of discussions that the best courses and instructors are remembered for. Your students will most likely have finished the book before the class has finished discussing the first chapter! With The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions, your students will explore: family relationships under various types of stress how families cope with physical illness what happens to the family when a loved one struggles with mental illness the impact of racial issues the effects of sexual abuse and domestic violence the process of healing from childhood trauma . . . and much more! The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions provides first-hand knowledge of what the loss of a parent to death, mental illness, or alcoholism feels like to the child; of how "coming out" as a lesbian affects one's life; of the love and frustration of having a mentally handicapped sibling; of what it's like to lose one's memory in old age. No academic description can convey the feelings, meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based on direct experience--exactly what you'll find in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions--can offer this perspective.

Table of Contents

About the Editors xvi
Contributors xvii
Foreword xxv
David N. Sattler
Preface xxvii
Acknowledgments xxix
PART I: CHILDHOOD
The Killing Jar
3(2)
Jim Lucas
My Tenth Year
5(4)
Jessica K. Heriot
Land Where Our Fathers Died...
9(3)
Maureen Porter
The Orange Coat
12(8)
Mary Clemens
Wanderer
20(9)
Pamela Di Pesa
Learning
29(3)
Nancy Hewitt
Mother's Savage Wait
32(1)
Somebody Else's Making
33(1)
Nancy Hewitt
A Father's Love
34(4)
Linda A. Lavid
Lisa's Ritual, Age Ten
38(2)
Grace Caroline Bridges
Willie and Winston
40(6)
Dennis Foley
Two Mean Boys
46(9)
Linda Kantner
PART II: ADOLESCENCE
Bonfires
55(6)
Diane B. Byington
Double Fuselage Model
61(8)
Barbara Adams
Liberty Seventeen
69(6)
Ellen Fairey
Drive
75(3)
Michael E. Miller
Soldier Boy
78(7)
Susan Olding
PART III: FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN ADULTHOOD
On Not Being Seen
85(2)
Bobbi Lurie
Mother Stew
87(1)
Lynore G. Banchoff
Elaine
88(3)
Michael E. Miller
Daddy's Girls
91(4)
Helen Ruggieri
Coffee, 7 a.m.
95(1)
Diana K. Munson
Cigarettes
96(2)
Diana K. Munson
Paper Plates
98(8)
Libbi Miriam
The Answer Is: Grocery Bags
106(3)
Rosemary DiStefano
Downstairs Apartment
109(1)
Nancy Hewitt
The Gravity Machine
110(11)
Barbara Adams
PART IV: OTHER ISSUES OF ADULTHOOD
The Invisibility Syndrome
121(10)
Anderson J. Franklin
Against the Odds
131(6)
Sara Rife
Hag
137(4)
Mary Sojourner
Telling Mr. M.
141(7)
Elisavietta Ritchie
Dance Away
148(4)
Stephen Stathis
The Self Family
152(9)
Tami Gramont
PART V: PHYSICAL ILLNESS
When I Was Old
161(6)
Bonny Vaught
Beauty Shop
167(5)
A. Rooney
The Price of Admission
172(8)
Debbi Lieberson
Stroke
180(1)
Bobbi Lurie
Dear Doctor
181(2)
Cherise Wyneken
What If?
183(2)
Cherise Wyneken
When Your Surgeon Is the Muse
185(4)
Sarah Sutro
PART VI: SURVIVING AND HEALING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
The Ring of Truth
189(7)
Jean Sellmeyer Smith
Letter to Margaret
196(2)
Jean Sellmeyer Smith
Hurt
198(2)
Louise Webster
A Sharp Feel
200(2)
Erin White
Sacrifice
202(11)
Bridget Bufford
PART VII: MENTAL DISORDERS
Anxiety Disorders
The Color of Disorder
213(2)
Jamie Joy Gatto
Step on a Crack, Break Your Mother's Back
215(8)
Janice J. Heiss
Prone to Panic
223(7)
David Levine
Going to Pieces
230(9)
Kathleen Gerard
Through the Woods, Darkly
239(8)
Mary Hanson Carter
Mood Disorders
Karen
247(5)
George Jones
Dry Dock
252(3)
Kathleen B. Henderson
Mad Colored Woman: A Memoir of Manic Depression
255(12)
Anita D. Taylor
Madwoman: A Mental Health Professional Living with Mental Illness
267(7)
M. Elizabeth Wilson
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
The Sleep of Reason
274(5)
Alan Howard
Searching the Headlights
279(3)
Gary Guillot
Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative Identity Disorder
282(2)
Jessica K. Heriot
A Narrative of Survival
284(8)
A Traveler
Eating Disorders
The Shape of Things
292(2)
Jamie Joy Gatto
Two Raisinets and a Corn Flake
294(11)
Jeanne Loo
Substance Abuse
That Goddamned van Gogh
305(4)
Sybil Smith
I Lost You to Liquor
309(1)
Nancy Hewitt
Mother, We're Going for a Ride
310(6)
Maureen Porter
Diagnosis Problems
Look So Normal Anonymous
316(3)
In Searchof a Diagnosis
319(10)
Kimberly Sotiro
PART VIII: FAMILIES COPING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
Fear
329(3)
Elizabeth Howard
Mary and John
332(4)
Bill Weiner
The Fool on the Hill
336(5)
Carol Cochran
Just Wondering
341(1)
Sometimes I Pretend You are Dead
342(1)
Ellen Turner
Hostages
343(9)
Karen de Balbian Verster
The Pass
352(7)
Edmund de Chasca
Shocking Mother: A Memoir of Mental Illness and Recovery
359(10)
Judith Beth Cohen
My Mother Is Back
369(3)
Juliana Rose
All Good Things Happen Below the Belt
372(13)
Franz Weinschenk
PART IX: PRACTICE IN AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM
Rose Cottage
385(3)
Catherine Quigg
One Flew east, One Flew West
388(9)
Kathleen Reiland Beck
At the Bottom of the Ocedan: Remembering the Psych Ward
397(6)
Alison Townsend
Kaiser Mental Health--1998
403(1)
Ellen Turner
Caseworker
404(3)
This One
407(2)
Case Summary: Homer Human
409(2)
Mark Dalton
Juniper and the Balance in Life
411(8)
Frances Murphy
The Women's Group
419(12)
Rebecca Rees
PART X: OLD AGBE
From the Perspective of the Elderly Person
Time's Winged Chariot
431(3)
Eleanor Capelle
Old Agbe
434(3)
Anne Greene
Cerebral Dust
437(10)
Robin Famighetti
From the Perspective of the Caretaker
Growing Old in an Alen Land
447(5)
Vicki Pieser
With Respect to Reba
452(5)
Elayne Clift
Peaches
457(6)
Dennis Foley
Sounds
463(6)
Elisavietta Ritchie
Flying Time
469
Elisavietta Ritchie

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