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Walking the night road
The house looked as if she'd brushed it over with a hurried hand. Things were open—drawers, cans, and closets. A pile of newspapers fanned out across the floor by the front door, and still I did not wonder. She must have dropped them as she ran, I thought. My mother was often late. But had I stopped to look, I would have seen the fear in the way the house had settled—a footstool that lay on its side, several books that had fallen from their shelves. When you count back, you can see a story from the end. I like that—the seemingly natural narrative that forms this way. With the end in my hand, the story becomes mine. I can have it all make sense, or I can lose my mind like she lost hers—like I lost her. But I can have my story. Walking the Night Road speaks to the experience of caring for a loved one with a terminal illness and the difficulties of encountering death. Alexandra Butler, daughter of the Pulitzer Prize–winning gerontologist Robert N. Butler and respected social worker and psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, composes a lyrical yet unsparing portrait of caring for her mother during her sudden, quick decline from brain cancer. Her rich account shares the strains of caregiving on both the provider and the person receiving care and recognizes the personal and professional sacrifices caregivers must make to fulfill the role. More than a memoir of dying and grief, Butler's account also tests many of the theories her parents pioneered in their work on healthy aging. Authors of such seminal works as Love and Sex After Sixty, Butler's parents were forced to rethink many of the tenets they lived by while Myrna was incapacitated, and Butler's father found himself relying heavily on his daughter to provide his wife's care. Butler's poignant and unflinching story is therefore a rare examination of the intimate aspects of aging and death experienced by practitioners who suddenly find themselves in the difficult position of the clients they once treated.
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Walking the night road : coming of age in grief
\"Alexandra Butler--daughter of the Pulitzer-Price winning gerontologist Robert Butler and noted social worker and psychotherapist Myrna Lewis--writes of how she cared for her mother during her mother's sudden, brief, and terminal struggle with brain cancer. This memoir examines the strains of caregiving on both the caregiver and the one cared for. Alexandra was 24 when her mother was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, and spent the following months as her mother's primary caregiver, putting her own life on hold during that time. In addition to tracing the course of her mother's tragic illness, Alexandra also examines how the illness affected herself and everyone in her family. Ironically, both Myrna Lewis and Robert Butler were noted gerontologists who championed the concepts of healthy aging--they co-authored the classic work Love and Sex After 60, for example--yet both found their life's themes sorely tested by Lewis's condition. Butler in particular could not handle the illness and left much of the care to Alexandra. Thus the work also examines what happens when a social worker such as Lewis tragically transitions from professional to client\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Family Financial Hardship and Adolescent Girls' Adjustment: The Role of Maternal Disclosure of Financial Concerns
The primary purpose of the present study was to assess whether maternal disclosure of financial concerns is related to difficulties in adolescent daughters' adjustment and whether such disclosure acts as a mediator in the relationship between family financial hardship and adolescent daughters' adjustment in a sample of 62 adolescent girls and their recently divorced mothers. Descriptive analyses revealed that the majority of participating mothers have disclosed their financial concerns to their adolescent daughters but vary with respect to the amount of detail they offer. Regression analyses revealed a positive direct relationship between family financial hardship and girls' psychological distress. In addition, family financial hardship was indirectly related to girls' psychological distress through maternal disclosure of financial concerns. Findings are discussed in terms of their relevance and significance for developmental psychologists, counselors, and parent educators.
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A Team Approach to Enuresis and School Reluctance
Urinary incontinence in school-aged children is a common problem--studies suggest up to 19% of school-aged children still experience some daytime wetting, while 3% of girls and 2.3% boys experience daytime wetting at least twice a week. Russ et al present a case that reports on a six-year-old girl with persistent enuresis where delays in diagnosis and management resulted in considerable psychological stress and difficulties at school. The case illustrates how collaboration between a school-linked, interdisciplinary healthcare team and school staff produced appropriate management of the child's condition.
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Haunting from the Future: A Congenial Approach to Parent-children Conflicts
This paper describes a novel approach to parent-children conflicts. It has been developed in response to situations when the present is particularly vexatious or where parties are passionately committed to their respective position which requires each to either defend it, or attack the rectitude of the other, and where to relent or even hesitate would risk loss of face.
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The Mother-Daughter Project: Co-creating Pro-girl, Pro-mother Culture Through Adolescence and Beyond ... the Construction and Deconstruction of Mother-daughter Discourses
This paper documents the ongoing attempts of a group of mothers and daughters to deconstruct dominant discourses about mother-daughter relationships and to create and sustain pro-girl and pro-mother cultures in their lives. This community work has three aims: to support girls coming into their power as women; to support the mother daughter connection; and to support mothers in the work of mothering. It is hoped that this work will be relevant not only to the work of therapists and community workers but also to readers' own relationships with mothers and/or children.
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Parents' Conceptions of Giftedness
giftedness is an elusive concept. Not only has it changed its meaning for society in different times and cultures, but it has also held a variety of meanings within a given culture and time period. Passow (1985) referred to 51 different terms in the education literature that characterize giftedness and concluded that there is “no single uniform conception of giftedness” (p. 23). More recently, Passow (1993) stated that the population of gifted people is so heterogeneous that its multidimensionality “may preclude a comprehensive theory” (p. 887). Yet, no matter how complex the construct, Passow (1985) insisted that conceptualizing giftedness is important because “all aspects of identification and development of giftedness depend on the underlying conception of the nature of giftedness” (p. 23).
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