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Books are in two categories: Elder Abuse, Parent Abuse, and Elder Care. |
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Return to Top Amazon.com: "elder abuse" in Amazon.com Understanding Family Violence: Treating and Preventing Partner, Child, Sibling and Elder Abuse  Providing an arresting and readable overview of family violence, Understanding Family Violence presents a thorough exploration of the major types of family violence and details the range of abusive behaviors perpetrated within family systems. Author Vernon R. WieheÆs extensive study of family violence includes partner abuse in gay and lesbian relationships, battered husbands, sibling abuse, marital rape, response patterns of battered women, the cycle of violence, preconditions of child sexual abuse, emotional abuse, effects of abuse on victims, treatment of offenders, and much more. Case vignettes are used effectively throughout this text to describe violent events and to illustrate the victimsÆ experience and perception of the abuse. Focusing on prevention and intervention, chapters delineate reasons that various types of abuse continue, suggest how different types of violent behavior may be treated, and recommends prevention strategies. In addition, the author has created a comprehensive and cohesive volume by carefully defining terms at the beginning of each chapter and offering summarizing remarks, valuable references, and suggested readings at the conclusion of each chapter. Understanding Family Violence translates theory and research into a practical format, easily accessible to undergraduate and graduate students in areas including psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, family studies, and pastoral counseling. While the book is an overview and not intended as a "how-to" book, any practitioner engaged in an empirically based practice will find Vernon R. WieheÆs insight invaluable.Author: Vernon R. Wiehe Paperback: 288 pages Company: Sage Publications, Inc (1998-07-16) (1998-07-16) ISBN: 0761916458 List Price: $71.95 Amazon Price: $62.90 Used Price: $20.50 Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents, Even If They Didn't Take Care of You  Doing the Right Thing illustrates how early parent-child and sibling relationships color-sometimes painfully-the caregiving experience in midlife. There exist many resources about aging that offer practical help for caregivers, but this book takes a new approach: it focuses on caregiving as a developmental stage that provides us with an opportunity to work out some of the unresolved issues still lurking from childhood, and to enrich the relationship between the generations. Based on the author's personal and clinical experience, Doing the Right Thing explores important issues such as: - how to set limits to your caregiving and cope with your guilt - how to forgive yourself when you feel angry with the parent for whom you are caring - how taking care of an elderly parent can bring siblings closer or split them apart forever - how taking care of an elderly parent can strengthen your marriage or destroy it - how gender affects caring for elderly parents. Author: Roberta Satow Ph.D. Hardcover: 288 pages Company: Tarcher (2005-03-17) ISBN: 1585423920 List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $1.97 Used Price: $0.37 Elder Abuse and Neglect: Causes, Diagnosis, and Interventional Strategies (Springer Series on Social Work)  In this second edition of their classic volume, the authors present their elder abuse diagnosis and intervention model. This comprehensive model of detection, assessment, and intervention enables the practitioner first to identify the type of elder mistreatment, including physical, sexual, psychological, and financial. It then provides systematic and realistic interventions. This updated edition also includes information on legal interventions with suggestions on how the practitioner should act in the courtroom, give testimony, document findings, and prepare for legal involvement with the criminal justice system. Actual legal tools are included in the appendix. This is a classic resource for all health professionals who work with the elderly. Author: Mary Joy Quinn, Susan K. Tomita Paperback: 365 pages Company: Springer Publishing Company (1997-06-28) ISBN: 0826151221 List Price: $45.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $14.22 Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction  Click 'Additional Materials' for downloadable sample chapters New to This Edition * A comprehensive glossary of key terms used in the field Family Violence Across the Lifespan, Second Edition offers a comprehensive and accessibly written introduction that is ideal for use in undergraduate and master's level courses in family violence, domestic violence, and abuse offered in departments of sociology, psychology, social work, counseling, and criminal justice. (20060525)Author: Ola W. Barnett, Cindy Miller-Perrin, Robin Perrin Paperback: 576 pages Company: Sage Publications, Inc (2004-05-18) ISBN: 0761927565 List Price: $69.95 Amazon Price: $58.75 Used Price: $47.90 T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)  tres¥pass \'trespes\ n: a transgression of law involving one's obligations to God or to one's neighbor; a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin-Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. The true horror of the novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The suspense lies in whether Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene. Though set in the late eighties, T is for Trespass could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent. It reveals a terrifying but all-too-real rip in the social fabric. Once again, Grafton opens up new territory with startling results. Author: Sue Grafton Hardcover: 400 pages Company: Putnam Adult (2007-12-04) ISBN: 0399154485 List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $4.47 Used Price: $1.38 Self Neglect: Challenges for Helping Professionals (Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 2) (Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 2)  Paperback: 101 pages Company: Routledge (2000-06-13) ISBN: 0789009935 List Price: $24.00 Amazon Price: $23.97 Used Price: $32.76 FINANCIAL ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY; A Detective's Case Files Of Exploitation Crimes  The author is a Florida detective recognized as an expert investigator of exploitation crimes who presents 11 shocking and factual investigations. He dispels the myths of this misunderstood crime while providing specific and practical prevention advice.... How to recognize exploitation, expose exploiters and help them to incriminate themselves....Easy legal steps to take to prevent someone from emptying an elder's bank accounts if they should lose mental capacity...How to protect yourself while you still can. Preview the book now.Author: Joe Roubicek Paperback: 161 pages Company: Lulu.com (2008-01-11) (2008-01-11) ISBN: 0615185142 List Price: $14.50 Amazon Price: $13.04 Elder Abuse Prevention: Emerging Trends and Promising Strategies  "Drawing from existing models and examining salient factors, she outlines approaches to intervention that consider victims and perpetrators and engage communities and service systems."-- -- Georgia J. Anetzberger , PhD, ACSW Assistant Professor of Health Care Administration at Cleveland State University, Editor of the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect This easy-to-read book: " Is for practitioners, researchers and program developers in aging, Adult Protective Services, dementia care, mental health, legal assistance, victim-witness assistance, domestic violence, and law enforcement " Offers examples of how agencies, coalitions, courts, communities, tribes, and states can improve their response to elder abuse " Draws from experiences and "practice wisdom" of elder law attorneys, social workers, domestic violence advocates, support group facilitators, counselors, and health care professionals " Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and coordinationAuthor: Lisa Nerenberg Hardcover: 320 pages Company: Springer Publishing Company (2007-12-28) ISBN: 0826103278 List Price: $45.00 Amazon Price: $40.08 Used Price: $40.83 Elder Abuse Detection and Intervention: A Collaborative Approach (Springer Series on Ethics, Law and Aging)  This volume offers a new, collaborative approach geared to enhance case review, improve victim safety, raise abuser accountability, and promote system change. Experts in adult protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, health care, advocacy, and civil justice have contributed to tackle the following critical topics: " Establishing a collaborative description of elder abuse history " Identifying the criteria for the reporting of cases " Accessing the intervention systems involved " Highlighting benefits and obstacles to success " Reviewing policy, legislation, research, and social changeReplete with case examples that allow the experiences of victims to speak for themselves, this book provides the framework to begin and build on collaborative approaches at the local, state, and national levels toward ending elder abuse. Author: Bonnie Brandl, Carmel Bitondo Dyer, Candace J. Heisler, Joanne Marlatt Otto, Lori A. Stiegel, Randolph W. Thomas Hardcover: 328 pages Company: Springer Publishing Company (2006-08-14) ISBN: 082613114X List Price: $50.00 Amazon Price: $44.52 Used Price: $47.93 Inside the World of Warren Jeffs: The Power of Polygamy  Inside the World of Warren Jeffs looks deep into the world of the Polygamist lifestyle exposing the dark side as never before. You are skillfully taken by the author through the everyday existence of the pluralistic family to endure the pain, suffering, cruelty and regimentation of singular male domination. A much overlooked fact about polygamy is that it can only work when there are more women than men in a society. Eventually, polygamy burns itself out because of natural selection. When the number of men equals or almost equals the number of women, there are no spare women to marry, and polygamy ceases. Only in the Fundamentalist Polygamist Groups do they keep the practice of polygamy alive, by abandoning a large number of their sons. These teenage boys are cast out into society to fend for themselves with little more than a sixth grade education, nowhere to go, no friends, and knowing they can never contact their mothers or family members again. A father throwing away his sons effectively throws away his competition for young females to take as wives. Because women are considered prime property in the Fundamentalist Polygamist religions, and as the pool of eligible women shrinks, polygamist men look for younger and younger wives to fulfill their needs. Some men marry girls who are little more than children, or at least make contracts with a young girl s father for marriage at a later date. The usual age of marriage for polygamist girls, is between twelve and fourteen. By the time a girl is twelve or even younger in a polygamist culture, older males have already noticed her and are vying and negotiating for her hand in marriage with whichever prophet leads their church. |
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Return to Top Elder/parent abuse: A catagorized bibliography and reference list Author: Robert Geffner
Unknown Binding: 70 pages Company: Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute (1992) List Price: Amazon Price: Parent abuse Author: James C Dobson
Unknown Binding: 9 pages Company: Focus on the Family (1985) List Price: Amazon Price: Never Ending Nightmare  This is a story about a father's malice and hatred against his first born daughter. The pattern never ended as Michelle chose men in her life that were powerful enough to destroy her. Parent abuse: The abuse of parents by their teenage children Author: Barbara Cottrell
Unknown Binding: 49 pages Company: Family Violence Prevention Unit, Health Canada (2001) ISBN: 0662295293 List Price: Amazon Price: Parent Abuse: America's Secret Crime Paperback: 213 pages
Company: Daryl Olson Communications (2002) ISBN: 097101471X List Price: Amazon Price: $7.77 Used Price: $1.00 |
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Return to Top Aging, Society, and the Life Course: Third Edition  As our aging population grows ever larger, it is increasingly important to understand how adults age and what we can do to provide up-to-date care to ensure their well-being as an integral part of society. Leslie Morgan and Suzanne Kunkel understand that this phenomenon is about much more than just the physical or biological aspects of growing older and have put together a comprehensive text on the impact of society and sociology on the aging process. Use this text to explore the diversity of the aging population and dispel the major stereotypes surrounding the elderly. Learn about aging through all the layers of social context from family life to politics and economics. And through this approach, come to see how aging is more than just an individual process, it is a process that effects the direction of our society as a whole. For the Student:
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Instructor's Guide Now Available! An Instructor's Manual for this textbook is available for those professors who have adopted Aging, Society, and the Life Course, Third Edition and can verify a bookstore order of 7 or more copies. Please email our Marketing Department at marketing@springerpub.com if you have adopted this text as you will need a password to download the guide. Please provide the name and telephone number of the bookstore that ordered the textbooks. A print version of the Instructor's Manual is also available.Author: Leslie A. Morgan, Suzanne R. Kunkel Hardcover: 408 pages Company: Springer Publishing Company (2006-12-18) ISBN: 0826102123 List Price: $85.00 Amazon Price: $68.00 Used Price: $61.20 Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir  Compelling and heartrending, this personal memoir chronicles the author's decision not to put her mother, who has Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, in "one of those homes" and relays the far-reaching consequences this choice has on her entire family. Detailing the challenges of reversing roles and learning to mother one's own mother, this refreshing and entertaining autobiography will help those struggling with their own decisions on elder care in the home. It touches on the importance of relationships—such as how they impact our souls and beliefs about ourselves and the quality of life—and explores the larger questions of faith, hope, and ultimately death. Author: Carol D. O'Dell Hardcover: 208 pages Company: Kunati Inc. (2007-04-01) ISBN: 160164003X List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $11.93 Used Price: $11.92 The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life  Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society had not yet adapted to this change. The U.S. has not made a research investment in aging. Only eleven medical schools out of 145 have geriatrics departments compared to England where geriatrics is the number two specialty. We have not solidified private pension plans or strengthened Social Security to ensure that people do not outlive their resources. In this urgent and ultimately optimistic book, Dr. Butler shows why and how we must re-examine our personal and societal approach to aging right now, so that the boomers and the generations that follow may have a financially secure, vigorous, and healthy final chapter life. Author: Dr. Robert N. Butler Hardcover: 608 pages Company: PublicAffairs (2008-03-03) ISBN: 1586485539 List Price: $30.00 Amazon Price: $9.96 Used Price: $6.50 Elder Rage, or Take My Father... Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents  A riveting, often humorous, non-fiction novel that chronicles Jacqueline Marcell's trials and tribulations, and eventual success at managing the care of her aging parents. Elder Rage is also an extensive self-help book with solutions for effective management, medically and behaviorally, of challenging elders who resist care. Includes answers to difficult "how to" questions like: getting obstinate elders to give up driving, accept a caregiver, see a different doctor, go to adult day care, move to a new residence--and includes a wealth of valuable resources, websites and recommended reading. The addendum by renowned dementia specialist, Rodman Shankle, MS MD: A Physician's Guide to Treating Dementia, makes it valuable for everyone from the family to the physician. Elder Rage is required reading at several universities for graduate courses in geriatric assessment and management.Author: Jacqueline Marcell Paperback: 346 pages Company: Impressive Press (2001-04) ISBN: 0967970318 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $5.00 Used Price: $2.49 Eldercare for Dummies  Cope with legal, financial, and medical issuesMinimize anxiety and stress and make the later years golden Need help caring for an elderly loved one? This sensitive, reassuring guide provides strategies for assessing older persons' needs, arranging for care, ensuring their safety, and enhancing quality of life - all while respecting their dignity. You'll see how to manage physical disabilities and chronic health problems, evaluate nursing homes, and help elders control their destinies. The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * "Get in, get out" information * Icons and other navigational aids * Tear-out cheat sheet * Top ten lists * A dash of humor and fun Author: Rachelle Zukerman Paperback: 384 pages Company: For Dummies (2003-05-01) ISBN: 0764524690 List Price: $19.99 Amazon Price: $10.75 Used Price: $9.69 Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care (Women in Culture and Society Series)  This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well as those whose work it is to care for them. In a society in which some two million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbers escalating daily, this thought-provoking work demands immediate and widespread attention. "[An] unnerving portrait of what it's like to work and live in a nursing home. . . . By giving voice to so many unheard residents and workers Diamond has performed an important service for us all."—Diane Cole, New York Newsday "With Making Gray Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long-term care in the most vivid representation in a decade of round-the-clock institutional life. . . . A personal addition to the troublingly impersonal national debate over healthcare reform."—Madonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary Sociology Author: Timothy Diamond Paperback: 296 pages Company: University Of Chicago Press (1995-05-15) ISBN: 0226144747 List Price: $17.00 Amazon Price: $11.00 Used Price: $11.65 Essentials for the Activity Professional in Long Term Care  This new book outlines key subject matter for long term care activity professionals already working in the field. Thoroughly researched and referenced, this book will provide a comprehensive understanding of all relevent information needed by activity professionals in long term care situations. .Author: Sue Lanza Paperback: 320 pages Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (1996-10-03) ISBN: 0827373872 List Price: $145.95 Amazon Price: $118.98 Used Price: $134.80 When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents  The answers you need--the personal, "been there" advice you can trust After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Jim Comer found himself an overnight "parent" at the age of 51. When he walked into his father's hospital room everyone looked to him as the "man who knew all the answers." He soon realized he didn't even know the questions. In ten years of caregiving, Comer has not only learned the questions he has lived them, and with When Roles Reverse he shares his hard-won answers. He learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father's deafness and his mother's dementia. Through it all Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor, in the process forging a deeper, more intimate relationship with his parents. With laugh-out-loud humor, Jim deals with improvisational moments for which there is no preparation: You find three gallons of Scotch in your dad's retirement home closet; Your Mother refuses to leave her home of 34 years and can only be coaxed into the car with promises of ice cream; At a crowded Sunday dinner table, your father announces that he wants you to give him an enema after lunch.... And offers personal experience and expert insight on the many issues it's absolutely essential to plan for such as: Wills, powers of attorney, and other legal documents every family needs When Roles Reverse even includes "Fifty Questions that will save you Time, Money, and Tears," a special section designed to help families initiate vital communication and prepare for the crises, confusion and unexpected joys of caregiving. Eldercare 911: The Caregiver's Complete Handbook for Making Decisions  Author: Susan Beerman, Judith Rappaport-Musson Paperback: 450 pages Company: Prometheus Books (2002-10) ISBN: 159102014X List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $2.66 Used Price: $2.66 Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders  Mary Pipher, author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Reviving Ophelia, which charts the troubled passage of girls into adolescence, has nimbly covered yet another psychological passage: that into old age, which May Sarton called "a foreign country." Pipher reveals that the greatest shame for today's elders--most of whom survived the Depression--is not being self-sufficient. The majority of them stoically prefer to keep their feelings to themselves, and this is why it's so difficult to convince older parents to accept or even discuss such issues as physical and mental health, finances, eldercare, or living wills. This directly conflicts with the openness of their children, who grew up in the era of "free love" and were influenced by society (and the advent of psychology in the 1950s and popularization of therapy) to talk frankly about emotions. While a boomer can easily talk with a friend about marriage difficulties or even surgery, an elder is likely to find admitting such "weaknesses" abhorrent. Another Country includes excerpts of sessions with dozens of Pipher's psychology patients, interspersed with not-so-obvious advice for sensitively communicating with the elderly. Some interviews are grim: one woman hallucinated that rodents were running through her house; she was so desperate for company from her family, but too proud to ask them to stop by, that she invented her own visitors. But the breakthroughs in communication Pipher is able to accomplish, sometimes with the help of grandchildren as intermediaries, are startling and thoroughly encouraging. (For example, the animals the woman was imagining disappeared after she received company regularly.) Pipher cared for her dying mother for a "horrid," guilt-filled year while this book was being written and says that she wanted "to help others in my situation feel less alone." She also aims to help each generation understand the other. In these goals she's succeeded brilliantly. Any adult struggling with issues with their parents, especially mortality, will find Another Country an indispensable source of suggestions and support. --Erica Jorgensen |