A Practicum Guide for Social Workers: An Integrated Approach

by Shelagh Larkin

Overview

Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate guide will help you embrace your decision with a sense of pride, validation, and faith in yourself; and provides powerful tools for creating boundaries, coping with judgment, and overcoming self-doubt.

Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You’re not alone. Severing ties with a family member can be devastating; and cutting this toxic person out of your life may bring up feelings of guilt and uncertainty—especially if you feel judged by others regarding your decision. Fortunately, you can free yourself from this toxic family member in a healthy, responsible, and liberating way.

In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic-family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You’ll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride and acknowledgement of your self-worth. You’ll learn how to let go of negative thoughts and feelings. And finally, you’ll develop the skills needed to rediscover self-care, self-love, self-reliance, and healthy loving relationships.

Whether you’re ready to sever ties with a toxic family member, or already have, this book will help guide you, every step of the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823337373
Publisher:	Cognella Academic Publishing
Publication date:	12/05/2023
Edition description:	2nd Revised Second ed.
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Shelagh Larkin is a licensed independent social worker who obtained her MSW at the University of Kentucky in 1988 and then her Ph.D. in social work at the University of Kentucky in 2020. She has thirty-three years of experience in practice and social work education. Her practice experience is in the areas of mental health, child welfare, and eating disorders. For the last twenty-three years, she has been the director for field education at Xavier University. She has also been awarded several grants, most notable being the Council on Social Work Education's Gero-Ed Center Curriculum Development Institute grant.