{"product_id":"changing-peoples-lives-while-transforming-your-own-isbn-9780470227503","title":"Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own","description":"By supporting others and promoting change, helping professionals also enjoy the benefit of personal growth. \u003ci\u003eChanging People's Lives While Transforming Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with narratives from individuals from social work, psychology, counseling, and allied health fields. Inspiring and stirring, this book vividly illustrates how to promote social justice and foster global human rights. Its accompanying DVD features stories from a social justice mission to Nepal reaching out to neglected children. Students and professionals will find this book a profound reminder of how targeted social justice efforts have resulted in transformative experiences.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e CD-ROM\/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1: Paths to Social Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2: The Dance of Hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3: Children Disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4: Stories of Despair and Resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: STORIES OF IMPACT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5: Road Trip.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6: Being Lost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7: Student Transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8: Making Universal Connections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9: Lessons and Major Themes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: TAKING ACTION.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10: Relationship Skills for Promoting Constructive Action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 11: Travel That Can Change Your Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 12: International Jetsetters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 13: Local Community Activists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 14: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 15: Going Small.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences and Resources.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the Authors.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the DVD.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"…a small easy-to read volume. They write in a very informal way, designed to encourage people to get out there and do something to help others as a means to find their own passion. This is a book that might be useful for a course in service learning because there are sections that discuss topics such as helping skills, especially listening and altruism, and there are scholarly references to other material.\" (\u003ci\u003ePsycCRITIQUES\u003c\/i\u003e, November 11, 2009)  \u003cb\u003eJeffrey A. Kottler\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eOn Being a Therapist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mummy at the Dining Room Table\u003c\/i\u003e (both from Wiley), among many other books. He is Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton. He also established the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which is devoted to helping the most neglected children of Nepal.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Marriner\u003c\/b\u003e is the cofounder of Roadtrip Nation and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRoadtrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path in Life\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also coproduced the annual Roadtrip Nation television series that airs nationally on PBS, and has been featured on NBC's Today show, CNN, CBS News, BBC World News, and NPR.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eA book of hope, of resilience, and of passionate and courageous efforts to change people's lives far beyond the narrow scope of your own community and immediate circle of influence\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eImbued with both a fitting sense of urgency and a profound sense of hope, \u003ci\u003eChanging People's Lives While Transforming Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of faculty, students, and professionals from a variety of fields who reached out to others after witnessing an injustice, poverty, or need in the lives of the most neglected and marginalized in society—and in reaching out, were transformed through the process of helping others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoauthored by two individuals who have devoted their careers to making a difference in the lives of others, this stirring book is a call to action, for both the young and young at heart, and is filled with inspiring and real-life narratives from individuals from a broad range of helping professions such as¿social work, psychology, and counseling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChanging People's Lives While Transforming Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e introduces you to the basic concepts related to social justice, global human rights, service learning, community activism, and altruism, with a look at:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe elements that are often part of service learning, social justice, and charitable work—including the joys, satisfactions, frustrations, and crushing disappointments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy people help, how they do it, and what they get out of their efforts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggestions for how to create the kind of experiences likely to be the most satisfying and transformative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eCountless opportunities for readers to stand up for the rights of those who are oppressed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to an accompanying DVD featuring stories, insights, and lessons culled from a social justice mission to Nepal, \u003ci\u003eChanging People's Lives While Transforming Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e encourages readers to be better world citizens in the cause of promoting human freedom and equality. It shows how even modest efforts on a small scale can have profound effects, offering a vision of social justice in which professionals in a variety of fields can promote change as advocates, activists, and leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988901970149,"sku":"NP9780470227503","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470227503.jpg?v=1761781983","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/changing-peoples-lives-while-transforming-your-own-isbn-9780470227503","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}