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Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
A Training Manual for Group Leaders

Author: Carole B. Cox, PhD

Pub Date: 04/2000
144 pp Paperback
ISBN13: 9780826113160

List: $50.00



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Description

This manual is a 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Group leaders can revise and expand upon the themes presented here to fit the needs of their particular work groups. Some of the main issues that are explored are: useful tips for grandparents on how to communicate effectively with their grandchildren on all topics ranging from drugs and sex, to sexually transmitted diseases; helping them learn how to deal with loss and abandonment issues; helping them develop and maintain self-esteem; dealing with special behavior problems; and appropriate ways of instilling and maintaining rules in the home.

Designed to complement To Grandmother's House We Go and Stay, it is very reader-friendly and easy to understand, and can be read by anyone who has assumed a parenting role of any sort and is interested in raising a happy and healthy child.

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Table of Contents
    Introduction: Project Description and Guidelines
  1. Understanding Empowerment
  2. Helping Children Build Self-Esteem
  3. Communicating with Children, Part 1
  4. Communicating with Children, Part 2
  5. Dealing With Behavior Problems
  6. Talking with your Grandchild about Sex and HIV
  7. Talking with Your Grandchild about Drugs
  8. Dealing with Loss
  9. Dealing with a Childs Grief and Loss
  10. Navigating the Service System
  11. Legal and Entitlement Issues
  12. Developing Advocacy Skills
  13. Getting Your Message Across
  14. What Did We Learn?
  15. References and Resources
    National Organizations
    Index
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Author Biographies

Carole Cox, Ph.D., is Professor at the Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the author of more than 50 journal articles and chapters dealing with various aspects of aging and caregiving. She has done extensive research on caregivers for persons with Alzheimer's disease, their needs, and use of services with a particular focus on ethnicity. In the last few years, she has expanded her interest in caregiving to that of grandparents raising their grandchildren. She has developed a program and curriculum for empowerment training for grandparents, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Training Manual for Group Leaders (Springer Publishing Company, 2000) and is also the editor of To Grandmothers House We Go and Stay: Perspectives on Custodial Grandparents (Springer Publishing Company, 2000). Her other books include Home Care: In International Perspective (Greenwood, co-author Abraham Monk), The Frail Elderly: Problems, Needs, and Community Responses (Auburn House), Ethnicity and Social Work Practice (Oxford University Press, co-author, Paul Ephross) and Dementia and Social Work Practice: Research and Interventions (Springer Publishing Company, 2007).

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