TY - BOOK AU - Mehr,Joseph TI - Human services: concepts and intervention strategies SN - 0205265073 AV - HV95 .M35 PY - 1998/// CY - Boston PB - Allyn and Bacon KW - Human services KW - Social service KW - Public welfare N1 - 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 ER -