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Human Services: Concepts and Intervention Strategies de Joseph J. Mehr

Human Services: Concepts and Intervention Strategies

Autor Joseph J. Mehr, Ronald Kanwischer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2010
"Human Services: Concepts and Intervention Strategies" provides a comprehensive grounding in the broad range of careers available in the human services, an introduction to the skills that are required for those careers, and case examples to help students visualize different career choices. The Eleventh Edition of this trend-setting book offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on practical application, and increased coverage of multicultural issues. "
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ISBN-13: 9780205787265
ISBN-10: 0205787266
Pagini: 307
Dimensiuni: 175 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:11
Editura: Allyn & Bacon
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States

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Human Services: Concepts and Intervention Strategies provides a comprehensive grounding in the broad range of careers available in the human services, an introduction to the skills that are required for those careers, and case examples to help students visualize different career choices.
 
The Eleventh Edition of this trend-setting book offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on practical application, and increased coverage of multicultural issues.

Cuprins

Preface  
PART I  Orientation and Perspective
 
1  Human Services: A New Direction    
What Is a Human Services Worker? Multiple Views    
Box 1.1: Typical Employment Titles for Human Service Workers    
Current Conceptions of Human Services Systems    
Box 1.2: “There She Lies, the Great Melting Pot”    
Social Policy and Human Services    
Summary    
Discussion Questions   
Learning Experiences    
Endnote    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
2  A History of Helping    
The Dark Past of Helping    
Social Welfare: Toward a Community Approach    
Box 2.1: A History of Prejudice    
Summary    
Discussion Questions  
Learning Experiences    
Endnote    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
PART II  Human Services: Defining Roles, Problems, and Boundaries
 
3  Human Service Workers: Agents of Change    
Human Services: A New Profession    
Role Functions of the Human Service Worker    
Human Service Workers: What They Really Do    
Human Service Workers in a Multicultural Society    
Competence and Credentialing    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Endnotes    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
4  Human Services: Identifying Problems and Causes    
Identifying Problems    
Theoretical Causes of Problem Behavior    
An Ecological Synthesis: The Life Matrix    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites  
 
5  Human Services Boundaries: Special Populations, Special Systems    
Problems and Services for Children and Adolescents    
Box 5.1: Cultural Diversity in the Workplace    
Box 5.2: Types of Out-of-Home Placement    
Domestic Abuse Services    
Problems and Services for the Elderly    
Drug Abuse: The Problem and Human Services    
Services for Mentally Retarded People    
Mental Health Problems and Service Systems    
Correctional Systems    
Poverty: A Common Denominator    
Homeless People    
The Multiproblem Client    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
PART III Contemporary Strategies
 
6  Medical and Psychiatric Approaches and the Person in Need    
AIDS: Physical Disease as a Human Services Issue    
Box 6.1: HIV/AIDS in the Cross-Cultural Context    
The Basics of the Medical and Psychiatric Models    
Common Treatment Strategies of the Psychiatric Model    
Prospects for the Medical and Psychiatric Models    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
7  Behavioral Approaches and the Person in Need    
Four Models of Learned Behavior    
Learning Problem Behaviors    
Representative Behavioral Treatment Approaches    
The Effectiveness of Behavioral Strategies    
Summary    
Discussion Questions   
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
8  Psychotherapeutic Approaches and the Person in Need    
Psychoanalysis    
Rogers’s Client-Centered Therapy    
Prescriptive Psychotherapy    
Box 8.1: Some Ethnocultural Issues and Psychotherapists    
Structural Variations of the Psychotherapeutic Approaches    
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Psychotherapeutic Approaches    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Endnotes    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
9  Integrating Contemporary Strategies, Personal Relationship Skills, and the Supervisory Process    
Using Contemporary Strategies    
Using Personal Relationship Skills    
Box 9.1: Cross-Cultural Communication Barriers and Strategies for Breaking Through    
Who Helps the Helper? Supervision and Teamwork    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
PART IV  Human Services and Psychosocial Change Agentry
 
10  Problem Assessment, Planning, and Brokering    
Typical Problems Seen by Human Service Workers    
The Need for Assessment    
Principles of Triage    
The Initial Assessment Interview    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Site    
 
11  Case Management: The Cornerstone for Human Services    
Approaches to Case Management    
Case Management in a Variety of Settings    
Box 11.1: That Other Kind of Case Management    
Issues in Case Management    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Site   
 
12  Inspiring Change in Human Services Clients    
The Process of Change    
Motivation for Change    
Motivational Interviewing    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Site    
 
13  Crisis Intervention    
Understanding Crisis States    
Signs of Crisis States    
Crisis Behavior during Major Disasters    
Box 13.1: Differences in the Responses of Children and Adolescents to Disasters by General Age Group    
Common Crisis Situations    
Intervening in the Crisis    
Box 13.2: Desirable Characteristics, Skills, and Abilities of Crisis Workers    
Box 13.3: Myths about Suicide    
Crisis Intervention for the Crisis Worker    
The Goal and Setting of Crisis Intervention    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Endnotes    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
14  Social Intervention: Prevention through Environmental Change    
Prevention in Human Services    
Limited Social Intervention    
Box 14.1: The Ethnic Agency    
Comprehensive Social Intervention    
Sociocultural Intervention in Human Services    
Box 14.2: Traditional Cultural Helpers and Human Services    
Human Services and Social Advocacy    
Summary    
Discussion Questions    
Learning Experiences    
Endnotes    
Recommended Readings    
Internet Sites    
 
15  Social Control, Human Rights, Ethics, and the Law    
Box 15.1: A Lack of Cultural Sensitivity?    
The Therapeutic State    
Human Rights Issues and Human Services    
A Human Services Bill of Rights   
Ethical Standards for Human Service Workers   
Summary    
Discussion Questions 
Learning Experiences
Endnote
Recommended Readings
Internet Sites
 
Glossary 
References  
Index

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  • Provides a comprehensive grounding in the broad range of careers available in the human services, an introduction to the skills that are required for those careers, and case examples to help students visualize different career choices.
  • Integrates extensive coverage of multicultural issues throughout the text.
  • Outstanding pedagogy includes chapter-opening questions, experiential exercises, cross-cultural boxed features, and many graphic illustrations to enhance student understanding.
  • Includes a chapter on case management, with models of case management for different professions and required skills

Caracteristici noi

  • An expanded multicultural focus, with boxed material to provide special emphasis on cross cultural concepts.
  • Expanded chapter on Motivational Interviewing introduces human service students to an exciting new approach to increasing the motivation of clients for behavior change.
  • Updated Internet sites at the end of each chapter, motivate students to continue learning.  
  • New case vignettes begin each chapter illustrating important concepts and experiences for the human service worker.
  • All figures, tables and boxes have been updated.
  • Important citations and references have been updated.
  • Connection with MyHumanServicesLab (www.myhumanserviceslab.com) has been added.  It is an exciting new way for students to enrich their learning experience and dig deeper into important concepts presented in each chapter.