Faces of Social Policy: A Strengths Perspective

by Kathleen P. Perkins, Carolyn J. Tice

This book focuses on the people who the social policies affect and analyzes various policies from a strengths perspective.

416 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 2001

About the author

Award winning author of Flight Instructions: A Journey Through Guilt to Forgiveness

I’m an eclectic kind of a gal, an older gal, sharp as Einstein, and clever as a cat. I have many years of hard lessons behind me and am more than willing to share them. Welcome to my Goodreads page! Watch for my blogs, coming soon.
After my mandatory stint in childhood, I took on the task of being a wife and mother, remaining in those roles for sixteen years.
In 1972, at a time when I was spiritually asleep, I left my husband and children to “find myself. “ I dubbed this period in my life “The Leaving Event.” My memoir, Flight Instructions: A Journey through Guilt to Forgiveness, is a must read so you can learn all the sordid details. The book won a finalist award from The Independent Spiritual Book Award in the category of Memoir/Spiritual Awakening.
You can follow my blogs which focus on excerpts from my book and what I learned on my journey to forgiveness.
On my journey I adopted a shadow persona called Denial. In the precarious company of Big D, I was actually able to accomplish some pretty amazing things.
After completing an undergraduate degree, I joined the Army and, using the G.I. Bill to further my education, obtained two master degrees, and a PhD. I side-stepped to London, England during the education phase of my life. I met Princess Di at a ribbon cutting ceremony at an Old Peoples’ Home in Kensington. She shook my hand, we made eye contact, she smiled.
I’ve been a therapist, a teacher, a writer, a lover, a long-distance mother, and a spiritual seeker. During my time in the Deep South, I became an active social and racial justice advocate joining the ranks of other anti-racists and, in the process of the work, making the tiniest chip in the iceberg of injustice. I carried my passion for racial justice back to Oregon and was awarded a Martin Luther King Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Shortly after that, desperate to find self-forgiveness, I “dropped out” to dive into writing my memoir.

Reviews

[Karlene · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh, not the most interesting text book, but I did learn a lot of US history.