Summary Of America By E. R. Frank

Introduction In the book America, by E.R. Frank, presents a personal narrative of a man’s journey through the foster care system, and how it affected his mental health. The author’s major premise is to highlight the disparities in the foster care system and how those disparities affect the children’s mental health and future outcomes. The author’s point of view is to offer sympathy and empathy to the families involved and offer opportunities for advocacy and awareness. The author’s point of view is transferred into the content of the book to contribute to further learning and advocacy for change.
Content
The author’s point of view contributed to my social work education by highlighting the problems in the foster care system. The author provided examples by narrating America’s journey from Ms. Harper’s home to his mothers home then to
The author mentioned America’s journey while traveling with a social worker, receiving therapeutic services, and interacted in a residential facility, which are positions that are interrelated to social work. The author’s content and purpose was bias to the client’s perspective. The author wanted to present empathy and sympathy for America, which was received by the reader. A foster care worker may see the disparities as a Child Welfare bureaucratic problem and narrate another level of frustration. As a reader, the author’s biases offered the reader the opportunity to advocate for change.
Features
The book’s most appealing features are language and organizational structure. The author would present a “then” content then refer how it relates to “now”. This offers a clinical perspective to a social work student on how the past can relate to the future. The language was presented in America’s first person language. There were times when the language may have been obscene, but it gives the reader the emotion that was behind the words.