Andrew Bridge wrote his memoir Hope's Boy to share his experience with childhood abuse and bring awareness to the causes and effects of violence. He endured physical and emotional abuse from his father and brother that was likely caused by intergenerational trauma and dysfunctional family dynamics. As a social worker assigned to Andrew, I would focus on removing him from the abusive environment, providing trauma-informed counseling for all family members, and strengthening his natural resilience which he developed through finding hope and purpose despite immense hardship.

1. A book review of Hope’s Boy, A Memoir, by Andrew Bridge
Write a book review of Hope’s Boy, A Memoir, by Andrew Bridge, that covers the following
questions: 1. Why did the narrator write this memoir? What were his goals? 2. What types
of abuse did Andrew experience and who committed the abuses? (Choose one or two
abusers/abuse experiences to write about.) Use a macro-theory and a micro-theory of
violence identifying and explaining the causes of the abuse Andrew experienced. 3. If you
were a social worker assigned to Andrew, what kinds of policies and practices (including
treatment ideas) would you use to prevent or stop the abuse he experienced? 4. What
helped Andrew be resilient to the abuse? Include your definition of what resilience means.
Again content, as well as organization, spelling, grammar and punctuation will be
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