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Human services : concepts and intervention strategies / Joseph J. Mehr.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1998.Edition: 7th edDescription: xiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0205265073
  • 9780205265077
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV95 .M35
Contents:
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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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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