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Women's Immersion in a Workfare Program

Ellen Greer
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      Discover what challenges lie ahead for occupational therapists Single women receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) often find themselves tangled in difficulties because of current changes in welfare reform, including workfare. Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists describes the journey of six single mothers in workfarea proactive alternative to conventional welfareand their emergence with unique talents and perseverance to balance motherhood and work in the face of adversity. This compassionate and informative text uses the participants’ own authentic voicesin poems, plays, and narrativesto tell their stories of survival and success in this unique governmental program. Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists first provides a socio-historical overview to place the issues in context, and then comprehensively reviews the interaction between barriers to work and self-sufficiency, including kinship systems, mental health issues, complying with workfare, family role strain, and psychological well-being. The research findings examine how the women receiving TANF experience the mandatory work program as preparation for transition into the workforce, how the women fit the mandatory program into their daily life, and how the women feel about the transition into the workforce. Topics discussed in Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists include: welfare reform history of single mothers transition to self-sufficiency experience of workfare qualitative research methodology surviving adversity impact of welfare reform on children Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists is a revealing, at times moving text for occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, welfare reform professionals, researchers, educators, and students.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ellen Greer EAN: 9780789030283 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 560 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-04-14 CITY: GENRE: MEDICAL / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociology: work and labour

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      Discover what challenges lie ahead for occupational therapists Single women receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) often find themselves tangled in difficulties because of current changes in welfare reform, including workfare. Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists describes the journey of six single mothers in workfarea proactive alternative to conventional welfareand their emergence with unique talents and perseverance to balance motherhood and work in the face of adversity. This compassionate and informative text uses the participants’ own authentic voicesin poems, plays, and narrativesto tell their stories of survival and success in this unique governmental program. Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists first provides a socio-historical overview to place the issues in context, and then comprehensively reviews the interaction between barriers to work and self-sufficiency, including kinship systems, mental health issues, complying with workfare, family role strain, and psychological well-being. The research findings examine how the women receiving TANF experience the mandatory work program as preparation for transition into the workforce, how the women fit the mandatory program into their daily life, and how the women feel about the transition into the workforce. Topics discussed in Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists include: welfare reform history of single mothers transition to self-sufficiency experience of workfare qualitative research methodology surviving adversity impact of welfare reform on children Women’s Immersion in a Workfare Program: Emerging Challenges for Occupational Therapists is a revealing, at times moving text for occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, welfare reform professionals, researchers, educators, and students.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ellen Greer EAN: 9780789030283 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 560 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-04-14 CITY: GENRE: MEDICAL / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociology: work and labour

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