By Jr., Bert Hayslip,Gregory C. Smith

ISBN-10: 0415897548

ISBN-13: 9780415897549

ISBN-10: 0415897556

ISBN-13: 9780415897556

The research of grandparents elevating grandchildren, now virtually 20 years previous, has tended to have a detrimental bias, emphasizing the problems such humans face and the unfavorable impression that grandparent caregiving has on them bodily, socially, and emotionally. This edited booklet seeks to opposite this pattern by way of taking a good method of figuring out grandparent caregivers, targeting their resilience and resourcefulness. this technique displays a strengths-based procedure and the significance of benefit-finding and optimistic coping. Chapters characteristic details from either qualitative and quantitative experiences and are written by means of a various diversity of pros, similar to counselors, psychologists, geriatric social staff, and nurse practitioners, to supply multidisciplinary persepctives for practitioners operating with grandparent caregivers. half one discusses the confident traits that custodial grandparents own – resilience, resourcefulness, and profit discovering. the second one half considers the sociocultural points of resilience and resourcefulness in grandparent caregivers. eventually, half 3 provides strengths-based interventions for operating with custodial grandparents. Practitioners will locate this to be a important source of their paintings and the sphere as an entire, stimulating confident adjustments in attitudes towards and practices with grandparent caregivers.

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