CHAPTER 13: Analytic Essay:

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Chapter 8: AIDS Service Organziations:

AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) adopted a mission that included advocacy for public policy and private service agency response to the AIDS epidemic, prevention education efforts and provision of personal social services to people with AIDS (PWAs). This mission was shaped by stigmatization and marginalization of PWAs, the inadequate response of governments and health and social service agencies, the developing relationship between ASOs and diverse populations, especially communities of color, and by developments in medical research and treatments for HIV disease. ASOs thus emerged as new contexts of helping and as such had to create organizational structures appropriate for the problems faced, arrange for constructive relationships between helpers and those receiving services, and establish and maintain constructive relationships between the ASO and the larger community. Future challenges facing these new contexts of helping are discussed.     

CHAPTER 6: The Family Crisis:

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Guardianship:

Guardianship is a legal relatinship whereby the decision-making power of one person-the ward-is transferred to another person- the guardian. Guardianship was designed to protect those who have been determined not to be competent to make their own decisions. However, in the loosely monitored guardianship system of the United States, many types of abuses have occured. The National Guardianship Rights Act, the result of eight years of research culled by the Aging Committee and of a Subcommittee hearing on September 25, 1987, was reintroduced in Congress in 1989. Its provisions are intended to prevent future abuses of the guardianship system.     

Divorce:

This article approaches divorce from a combined family systems, individual life cycle and stage theory of development perspective. It posits that the choice of what kind of therapy is apt to be most efficient and most efficacious for any patient/couple should be made after identifying at what stage in the divorce process the person(s) is/are in when they enter treatment and what their respective ego strengths, cognitive functioning, and social and resource networks are. There is an assumption of flexibility in the therapist's style and philosophic orientation. It is recommended that therapy encompass interventions that are likely to be the most effective in the various stages rather than be a rigid adherence to one dogma. Several illustrative case vignettes are presented.