Human services :

Mehr, Joseph,

Human services : concepts and intervention strategies / Joseph J. Mehr. - 7th ed. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1998. - xiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes Index

Part I Orientation and perspective --
Human services: a new direction --
History of helping --
Part II Human services: defining roles, problems, and boundaries --
Human service workersL agents of change --
Human services: identifying problems and causes --
Human services boundaries: special populations, special systems --
Part III Contemporary strategies --
Medical/psychiatric approaches and the person in need --
Behavioral approaches and the person in need --
Psychotherapy and the person in need --
Integrating contemporary strategies, personal relationship skills and the supervisory process --
Part IV Human services and the psychosocial change agentry --
Problem assessment, planning, brokering --
Case management: cornerstone for human services --
Crisis intervention --
Culturally favored approaches: indigenous workers, peer therapy, parahelpers, and mutual self-help --
Social intervention: prevention through environmental change --
Social control, human rights, ethics and the law.

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