Jeffrey A. Kottler, Mike Marriner

Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own (eBook, PDF)

Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470429877
• Artikelnr.: 38209561

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.