This comes at a time when the Maryland Poison Center , operated by the School of Pharmacy , prepares for holiday-related inquiries. There are dozens of innocent-seeming holiday gifts and decorations that can be dangerous. Cologne, watch batteries, holly and mistletoe all contain poisons that can harm or even kill young children. There are ways to handle it. Geoffrey Greif, PhD, professor of social work and associate dean of the School of Social Work, is a nationally known expert on issues pertaining to divorce, including familial relationships.
Holidays are emotional for all ages.
Can Be Better Years, can respond to these and other concerns about dealing with the elderly during the holidays. Single mothers work, buy gifts for children and extended family, and handle routine and holiday-related chores. Littlefield says women need to seek balance in their roles by scaling back activities to a manageable load, redefining roles and relationships to more egalitarian levels and redistributing some of their responsibilities in their workplace, the community and at home. Everyone should consider how he or she contributes to the overload in the lives of the women around them and do his or her part in helping to alleviate the strain-or, at least, not exacerbate it. It is the founding institution of the University System of Maryland.