How To Not Feel Bad About Being Poor
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What's So Bad About Being Poor?
Have you ever wondered what it's really like to grow up in the shadows of poverty and mental illness? To navigate a childhood where survival means understanding your parents' demons before you understand yourself? In this powerful memoir, Deborah M. Foster pulls back the curtain on a reality many prefer to ignore. Growing up in Reagan-era America, Foster's childhood was a maze of unstable housing, religious fundamentalism, and the constant threat of family separation. As the eldest child of parents grappling with severe mental illness - a father with schizoaffective disorder and a mother with bipolar depression - she was forced to become an adult long before her time. From Utah to Wisconsin to Canada and finally Iowa, her family's journey through poverty reveals the devastating gaps in America's social welfare system and mental health care. Foster's unflinching account, backed by her firsthand experience and academic understanding, exposes the harsh realities faced by countless families trapped in similar circumstances. Her story illuminates how systemic failures perpetuate cycles of poverty and mental illness, while demonstrating the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. 'What's So Bad About Being Poor?' isn't just another memoir - it's a wake-up call that challenges our assumptions about poverty, mental illness, and the American Dream. This compelling narrative offers vital insights for social workers, policy makers, and anyone seeking to understand the complex realities of families in crisis. Grab your copy of 'What's So Bad About Being Poor?' today and join the crucial conversation about mental health, poverty, and social justice in America.
Psychosocial Implications of Poverty
Author: Verônica Morais Ximenes
language: en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date: 2019-08-21
This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain. The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents studies that unveil the psychosocial implications of poverty by revealing the processes of domination based on the stigmatization and criminalization of poor people, which contribute to maintain realities of social inequality. The second part presents studies focused on strategies to fight poverty and forms of resistance developed by individuals who are in situations of marginalization. The studies presented in this contributed volume depart from the theoretical framework developed by Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology and Liberation Psychology, in an effort to understand poverty beyond its monetary dimension, bringing social, cultural, structural and subjective factors into the analysis. Psychological science in general has not produced specific knowledge about poverty as a result of the relations of domination produced by social inequalities fostered by the capitalist system. This book seeks to fill this gap by presenting a psychosocial perspective with psychological and sociological bases aligned in a dialectical way in order to understand and confront poverty. Psychosocial Implications of Poverty – Diversities and Resistances will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists and economists interested in multidimensional studies of poverty, as well as to policy makers and activists directly working with the development of policies and strategies to fight poverty.
What's So Blessed about Being Poor
An inspiring exploration of how happiness and holiness can exist in the midst of poverty and illness. Two lay women who have chosen to live among the poor in East Africa, one a Maryknoll lay mission, and the other, a New York attorney who left her law practice to become a lay mission with the Franciscans minister to the poor in Kenya. Slavin first met Salvador when she was volunteering as a lawyer working in a justice and peace program in Kenya. Slavin was intrigued by the well-known phrase "Blessed are the poor." After approaching this seeming paradox through unrewarding library research, she decided that she would join Salvador in her ministry to AIDS orphans to try to understand how the poor can be "blessed." This account tells of their experiences as they worked together with the poor, primarily AIDS orphans, in the slums of Kenya. Photos will be included.