Boundaries of Care - Community Health Workers in the United States

In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan introduces readers to the lived experience of community health workers and how, through outreach and advocacy, these workers intimately shape and improve the well-being of their communities.

List of contents

Introduction: Reaching Them Where They're At
Chapter One: "There Is Hope Out There": Community Health Workers & The Moral Economy of Care
Chapter Two: Connecting with Clients & Engendering Empowerment: Analyzing the CHW-Client Relationship
Chapter Three: Present Yet Invisible: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Professional Workforce
Chapter Four: Boundaries of Care: How Caregiving Is Shaped in Community Health Work
Chapter Five: "So That No One Can Belittle Them": Advocacy as Caregiving
Chapter Six: "You Cannot Pour from an Empty Cup": Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Self-Care
Conclusion

About the author

Ryan I. Logan is assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Stanislaus.

Summary

In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan introduces readers to the lived experience of community health workers and how, through outreach and advocacy, these workers intimately shape and improve the well-being of their communities.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan I. Logan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793629487
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-948-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Caregiving, United States of America, USA, Community nursing