Abrazando el espíritu : Bracero families confront the US-Mexico border / / Ana Elizabeth Rosas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810867403321
• Autore: Rosas Ana Elizabeth <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-28267-1; 0-520-95865-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: American Crossroads ; ; 40
• Disciplina: 305.8/6872073
• Soggetti: Foreign workers, Mexican - Family relationships - United States - History - 20th century; Migrant agricultural laborers - Family relationships - United States - History - 20th century; Mexicans - United States - Social conditions - 20th century; Families - Mexico - Social conditions - 20th century; Immigrant families - United States - Social conditions - 20th century; Mexico Emigration and immigration Social aspects; United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942-1947 -- 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency -- 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949-1959 -- 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942-1964 -- 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957-1964 -- 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love -- 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias (Intermediary Women), 1958-1964 -- 8. Ejemplar y sín Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942-1964 -- 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947-1964 -- Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically ; -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espíritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations-creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.

A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders : Responsible Adult Culture / / by Granville Bud Potter, John C. Gibbs, Molly Robbins, Peter E. Langdon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910304140603321
• Autore: Potter Granville Bud
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-17536-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 150; 150.1988; 306; 364; 616.8914
• Soggetti: Positive psychology; Quality of life; Psychotherapy; Counseling; Criminology; Positive Psychology; Quality of Life Research; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction. Welcome to Responsible Adult Culture -- Part II. Preparation and Implementation -- Chapter 2. Getting Started -- Part III. Motivating Offenders to Help One Another Think and Act Responsibly -- Chapter 3. Cultivating a Responsible Adult Culture through Mutual Help Meeting -- Part IV. Equipping Offenders to Help One Another Think and Act Responsibly -- Chapter 4. Equipping a Responsible Adult Culture through Equipment Meetings -- Chapter 5. Equipping with Skills to Manage Anger and Correct Thinking Errors -- Chapter 6. Equipping with Social Interaction Skills -- Chapter 7. Equipping with Mature Moral Judgment (Social Decision Making) -- Chapter 8. Final Equipment Meeting: Up or Down? -- Appendices.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a truly comprehensive program for helping offenders to think and act responsibly. It provides the tools of the program with great clarity. In addition to exploring the needs of all offenders, the book addresses the special needs of both female and dual-diagnosis offenders. Responsible thinking means habitually seeing others and situations accurately, rather than in self-serving and egocentrically distorted ways. Because self-centered thinking is typically reinforced by negative group norms, RAC starts with the cultivation of a constructive climate (“mutual help” groups) to motivate change. Motivated group members then gain tools for responsible thinking through “equipment” (cognitive behavioral) meetings. These tools pertain to social skills, anger management, and the correction of self-centered thinking through social perspective taking (cognitive restructuring). Beyond documented reductions in distorted thinking and recidivism rates, RAC’s synergy or round-the-clock interpenetration of positive groups and tools promotes a safer and more humane institutional culture.