When Things Begin to Go Bad

Narrative Explorations of Difficult Issues
Herausgeber: Howard, George; Delgado-Romero, Edward A.

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Produktbeschreibung

o bad. When Things Begin to Go Bad presents thirteen personal narratives focused on hope-rather than despair and darkness-and deals with issues including health problems, racism, homophobia, disability, dysfunction, and death. These inspiring stories provide fresh insight into how people can make sense of difficulties though the writing of personal narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780761828655
• ISBN-10: 0761828656
• Artikelnr.: 21525864

Autorenporträt

George Howard holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Southern Illinois University. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame. Edward Anthony Delgado-Romero holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Notre Dame. He is Assistant Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: When Things Begin to Go Bad
Chapter 2 Diminishing Capacities
Chapter 3 Life at the Crossroads for One Professional Woman
Chapter 4 El Otro Lado
Chapter 5 What if Things are Getting Worse?
Chapter 6 Different Directions
Chapter 7 On Being Tricked into Attending College
Chapter 8 Lambs, Coyotes, and Counseling Psychologists: Dialogues on
Multiculturalism in the Badlands of Privilege and Oppression
Chapter 9 Asian Indian Diaspora
Chapter 10 Visible and Invisible Minority: Double-whammy or Double
Blessing?
Chapter 11 My Barn Having Burned to the Ground, I Can Now See the Moon
Chapter 12 Out of Control
Chapter 13 Changing the Default Mode in the Hard Drive of Life
Chapter 14 The Libra Soul
Chapter 15 Hope: A Qualitative Analysis
Chapter 16 Author Biographies
Chapter 17 Index