Narrative in Social Work Practice -

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Résumé :
Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Throughout, the book showcases the flexibility and appeal of narrative methods and demonstrates how they can be empowering and fulfilling for clients and social workers alike.

Biographie:
Ann Burack-Weiss taught for thirty years at the Columbia University School of Social Work and is now associate faculty in Columbi?s Program in Narrative Medicine. She is the author of The Caregiver?s Tale: Loss and Renewal in Family Life (Columbia, 2006) and The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman?s Life (Columbia, 2015).

Lynn Sara Lawrence is a practicing psychotherapist in New York City. She has taught at the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and has contributed to Smith College Studies in Social Work and Psychoanalytic Social Work.

Lynne Bamat Mijangos is practicum supervisor for the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She is the author of Baby Girl Mijangos (2004) and is a contributor to Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

Sommaire:
Foreword, by Rita Charon
Preface: A Carnival of Possibilities, by Ann Burack-Weiss
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Many Ways of Knowing, by Ann Burack-Weiss
Part I. Writing as Discovery and Healing
1. Stuck: An Intersection of Stories, by Lynne Bamat Mijangos
2. Garden at Vaucresson: It's Not All a Bed of Roses, by Lynn Sara Lawrence
3. Another Kind of Witnessing: Narrative Medicine and the Trauma Therapist, by Kristen Slesar
Part II. Narrative Social Work with Individuals and Families
4. The Reluctant Storyteller: The Use of Self in Narrative Social Work, by Millet Israeli
5. Grace Notes: Singing in Marion's Hospital Room, by Constance H. Gemson
6. One Family's Experience of Falling Out of Health: A Mother Remembers; a Daughter Reflects, by Jessica Greenbaum and Isabel Marcus
7. Scheherazade: The Social Worker as Interpreter of Social, Cultural, and Familial Maladies, by Judith Levi
8. Sharing a Narrative Meal: The Therapeutic Use of Narrative with Older Adults, by Lauren Taylor
Part III. Narrative Social Work with Groups
9. Storytelling and Listening to Combat HIV/AIDS: Stigma and Secrecy in Kenya, by Benaifer Bhadha
10. I Like Dancing and Singing and Prancing and Flinging: Using Poetry in Dementia Care, by Mary Hume
11. Jesse's Story: A Mother's Voice?a Social Work Journey, by Heidi Mandel
12. With Every Story We Rise: Narrative Means to Social Justice Ends, by Nora McCarthy and Rachel Blustain
Part IV. Narrative Social Work in Education, Supervision, and Research
13. Transnational Parenting: The Hidden Costs of the Search for a Better Life, by Christiana Best-Giacomini
14. The Worker?Mentor Story: Narrative Approaches in Social Work Supervision, by Alicia Fry
15. Narrative Research: Discoveries in Listening to Clinician-Scholars' Experiences of Working Across Trauma and Loss, by Madelyn Miller
16. Reading and Writing Really Are Fundamental: How Stories Shape Professional Development, by Mary Sormanti
Conclusion: On Narrative Competence and Narrative Humility, by Ann Burack-Weiss, Lynn Sara Lawrence, and Lynne Bamat Mijangos
List of Contributors
Index