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Joseph Mehr, Joseph J. Mehr, Ronald Kanwischer

Human Services

Name: Human Services
Author: Joseph Mehr

Concepts and Intervention Strategies

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Pearson Education | 2010

ISBN13: 9780205787265

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ISBN13:9780205787265

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Uitgever:Pearson Education

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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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