JANE ADAMS

Un rumor se extiende por los barrios de Chicago: en Hull House, la institución fundada y dirigida por Jane Addams está acogido un “Bebé Diablo” “que tiene pezuñas, orejas puntiagudas y una cola dimin

Esta obra se enmarca dentro la colección coeditada por el Consejo General de Trabajo Social y Ediciones Paraninfo. La colección incluye textos universitarios y ensayos, así como clásicos del Trabajo social, nacionales y extranjeros, cuidadosamente seleccionados con el fin de descubrir y promover entre los lectores de habla hispana, bien sean docentes, estudiantes o profesionales en ejercicio, los origenes y la historia de esta disciplina y sus clasicos. En 1892, una joven Jane Addams imparte dos conferencias en el marco de un seminario de verano organizado por reformistas sociales y lideres del movimiento de los establecimientos estadounidenses. En ellas deseaba resaltar la relevancia social -el sentido y el valor- que podia haber tenido la apertura de un centro comunitario como Hull House, inaugurado en Chicago en 1889. Con ellas, se inicia la trayectoria de Jane Addams como fundadora del Trabajo social, en especial en la intervencion a nivel grupal y comunitario. Un analisis introductorio de la biografia y la relevancia de Jane Addams y Hull House para el Trabajo social, realizados por Ana Isabel Lima Fernandez y Carmen Verde Diego, anteceden la traduccion de estas dos conferencias de Jane Addams, en un empeño del Consejo General del Trabajo social por descubrir a la autora al lector de habla hispana, divulgar los origenes del Trabajo social y acercar a sus clasicos a los profesionales, docentes y estudiantes de la disciplina.

Your Life by Design, A journey of gratitude and journaling exercises that will change your life is designed to do just that. Its not just another ordinary gratitude book, instead it will take you on a journey to retrain your mind to find things to be grateful for and to look for the positives in everything.This amazing journal was born from my own soul searching journey from depressed and anxious to now, where I live the most amazing life. Along the way I discovered what worked and what didnt and this book includes all the things that you need to help you release stress, worry and anxiety in an easy way, which in turn brings happiness and joy back into your life - just writing a list each morning isnt enough despite what you might have been told. This book and the exercises included are so easy to use and to incorporate into your life. And if you do them, you will feel happier, less stuck, much more grateful and things then in turn become easy. Once you change your mindset, you literally change everything. Because if you focus on the good, great things happen and as a roll on effect you become aware of more and more amazing things in your life. Start where you are right now, start bringing positive changes into your life by using this book, start living your life by design right now and rewire your brain so that gratitude and happiness become your default setting.

How do parents cope when their adult children struggle to launch, battle depression or addiction, or return home unable to face independence? With empathy and insight, When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us confronts the painful gap between parental hopes and the reality of adultolescents who are stuck, struggling, or spiraling. In this groundbreaking book, a social psychologist whos been chronicling the lives of American families for over two decades confronts our deepest concerns, including our silence and self-imposed sense of isolation, when our grown kids have failed to thrive. She listens to a generation that did everything right and expected its children to grow into happy, healthy, successful adults. But they havent, at least, not yetand meanwhile, were letting their problems threaten our health, marriages, security, freedom, careers or retirement, and other family relationships. With warmth, empathy, and perspective, Dr. Adams offers a positive, life-affirming message to parents who are still trying to fix their adult childrenStop! She shows us how to separate from their problems without separating from them, and how to be a positive force in their lives while getting on with our own. As we navigate this critical passage in our second adulthood and their first, the bestselling author of Im Still Your Mother reminds us that the pleasures and possibilities of postparenthood should not depend on how our kids turn out, but on how we do!

They say that we all have a day, a dark day of the soul when we either sink for good or fight it and rise from the depths threatening our everything. I dont think I had a day, but rather a period of time where things were so dark I knew that if something didnt change - if I didnt change - then I would get pulled under and never escape, leaving my girls without a mum, just as I had been left without mine. This book is born from that journey, its my struggle from just barely surviving to truly thriving. Its a practical tool that will help to equip you with the knowledge that I learnt along the way to allow you to get unstuck, to improve your life, to show you how to stop thinking small and how to make positive change no matter what you are currently going through. Finally allowing you to live the life you deserve to live. I myself have been at the lowest of the low places, I have learnt how to pick myself up again and move forward to where I am today. I truly believe this book can help you to grow and evolve and change into the person I know you were born to be. I am here to show you just whats possible when you finally choose yourself.

A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These stories, light-hearted and profound, were rough hewn by the well known mind-body-spirit author Alan Jacobs, and turned into literary gems by Jane Adams, an artist, poet and author. They express this fertile dialogue, in the inner life. They include two childrens stories for the ever young in spirit. Major influences are Gurdjieff-Ouspensky, Douglas Harding, J.Krishnamurti, and a rich blend of wisdom from the east and west.