Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights [Kindle Edition]

Mike Marriner (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"…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." (PsycCRITIQUES, November 11, 2009)

Product Description

By supporting others and promoting change, helping professionals also enjoy the benefit of personal growth. Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own 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.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 2335 KB
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing; 1 edition (January 8, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001RF3U3Q
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Jeffrey A. Kottler has authored over 65 books in the field for counselors, therapists, teachers, and the public, including COMPASSIONATE THERAPY: WORKING WITH DIFFICULT CLIENTS; ON BEING A THERAPIST; COUNSELORS FINDING THEIR WAY; MAKING CHANGES LAST; COUNSELING SKILLS FOR TEACHERS; DIVINE MADNESS: TEN STORIES OF CREATIVE STRUGGLE; BAD THERAPY: MASTER THERAPISTS SHARE THEIR WORST FAILURES; THE CLIENT WHO CHANGED ME: STORIES OF THERAPIST PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION; and THE MUMMY AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE: EMINENT THERAPISTS REVEAL THEIR MOST UNUSUAL CASES AND WHAT THEY TEACH US ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

Jeffrey has worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in a preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, university, community college, and private practice. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru and Iceland, teaching counseling theory and practice. He has also served as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Nepal. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Changing People's Lives and Your Own, June 28, 2009

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Dale Floody "Balanced Positive Psychology" (wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights (Paperback)

This book focuses primarily on inspirational efforts to improve the lives of children in Nepal, but also covers a variety of additional "service learning" efforts throughout the world and right here in the U.S. The authors provide insightful descriptions of activities of college students, faculty, and professionals from other fields who are promoting social justice and global human rights for others, but also promoting their own self actualization. In fact, they contend that service learning experiences can provide the following benefits: greater appreciation of simplicity in my own life, changing my values, enhanced resilience and confidence in facing adversity, reduction of a sense of privilege and entitlement, enhanced social interest and social support, exhilaration and joy, and creating a sense of meaning in my life. It's sort of like a qualitative exploration of balanced positive psychology. But the authors aren't Pollyannaish, and they discuss the frustrations, difficulties, and roadblocks that often can occur in helping others. Further, they make the point that you don't have to travel half-way around the world to find and help victims of neglect, marginalization, abuse, or social injustice, you can probably find them within a few miles of where you live. For someone interested in making a difference in the lives of others and in their own, this book is a fantastic place to start and/or to gain renewed insight and motivation.

4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Book, Terrible DVD, January 31, 2012

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Forrest Inslee (Kirkland, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights (Paperback)

I teach a course meant to inspire psychology graduate students to engage with social justice issues. This text is one of two that I require for the course. It is really quite engaging, and helps students to work through issues of personal motives, worldview, and social justice values. I highly recommend it for people who are developing their vision for work in the helping professions -- especially those who are wondering if there is a role for them in meeting some of the more serious areas of need in a global, cross cultural context. Note: There is an attached DVD with the book which is really a terrible waste of resources (and perhaps could be eliminated to bring the cost of the book down). It is a badly produced, confusing and unfocused amateur production, with a monotonous, poorly performed amateur soundtrack that makes the whole thing even more painful to watch. The reason for four rather than five stars in my review.