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Human Services

by: Mehr, Joseph

Human Services

by: Mehr, Joseph

ISBN 13:
9780205317509
ISBN 10:
0205317502
Edition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/01/2000
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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"This trendsetting text offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on practical application, and increased coverage of multicultural issues. The text 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface

xiii

PART I Orientation and Perspective

Human Services: A New Direction

(15)

What Is a Human Service Worker?

(2)

Typical Employment Titles for Human Service Workers

(1)

Current Conceptions of Human Services Systems

(7)

``There She Lies, the Great Melting Pot''

(2)

Social Policy and Human Services

(3)

Summary

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Learning Experiences

(1)

Endnote

(1)

Recommended Readings

(1)

A History of Helping

(17)

The Dark Past of ``Helping''

(1)

Social Welfare: Toward a Community Approach

(4)

Historical Prejudice

(2)

Antecedents of the Human Services Concept

(8)

Summary

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Learning Experiences

(1)

Endnote

(1)

Recommended Readings

(1)

PART II Human Services: Defining Roles, Problems, and Boundaries

Human Service Workers: Agents of Change

(26)

Human Services, a New Profession

(3)

Role Functions of the Human Service Worker

(3)

Human Service Workers as Agents of Change: Do They Help or Heal?

(1)

Human Service Workers: What They Really Do

(5)

Human Service Workers in a Multicultural Society

(7)

Competence and Credentialing

(3)

Summary

(2)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Learning Experiences

(1)

Endnotes

(1)

Recommended Readings

(1)

Human Services: Identifying Problems and Causes

(21)

Identifying Problems

(5)

Theoretical Causes of Problem Behavior

(10)

An Ecological Synthesis: The Life Matrix

(2)

Summary

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Learning Experiences

(1)

Recommended Readings

(1)

Human Services Boundaries: Special Populations, Special Systems

(30)

Problems and Services for Children and Adolescents

(6)

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

(2)

Types of Out-of-Home Placement

(1)

Domestic Abuse Services

(1)

Problems and Services for the Elderly

(2)

Drug Abuse: The Problem and Human Services

(5)

Services for Mentally Retarded People

(4)

Mental Health Problems and Service Systems

(1)

Correctional Systems

100

(2)

Poverty: A Common Denominator

102

(1)

Homeless People

103

(3)

The Multiproblem Client

106

(1)

Summary

107

(1)

Discussion Questions

108

(1)

Learning Experiences

108

(1)

Recommended Readings

109

(1)

PART III Contemporary Strategies

Medical/Psychiatric Approaches and the Person in Need

110

(17)

AIDS: Physical Disease---Human Services Issue

111

(4)

HIV/AIDS in the Cross-Cultural Context

113

(2)

The Basics of the Medical/Psychiatric Model

115

(4)

A Culture-Bound Syndrome: Koro, the Disappearing Penis

118

(1)

Common Treatment Strategies of the Medical/Psychiatric Model

119

(5)

Prospects for the Medical/Psychiatric Model

124

(1)

Summary

124

(1)

Discussion Questions

125

(1)

Learning Experiences

125

(1)

Recommended Readings

126

(1)

Behavioral Approaches and the Person in Need

127

(15)

Four Models of Learned Behavior

128

(4)

Learning Problem Behaviors

132

(1)

Representative Behavioral Treatment Approaches

133

(6)

The Effectiveness of Behavioral Strategies

139

(1)

Summary

140

(1)

Discussion Questions

140

(1)

Learning Experiences

141

(1)

Recommended Readings

141

(1)

Psychotherapy and the Person in Need

142

(19)

Psychoanalysis

144

(3)

Rogers's Client-Centered Therapy

147

(2)

Transactional Analysis and Gestalt Therapy

149

(3)

Prescriptive Psychotherapy

152

(2)

Some Ethnocultural Issues and Psychotherapists

153

(1)

Structural Variations of the Psychotherapeutic Approaches

154

(3)

Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Psychotherapeutic Approaches

157

(1)

Summary

158

(1)

Discussion Questions

159

(1)

Learning Experiences

159

(1)

Endnotes

160

(1)

Recommended Readings

160

(1)

Integrating Contemporary Strategies, Personal Relationship Skills, and the Supervisory Process

161

(25)

Using Contemporary Strategies

162

(9)

Using Personal Relationship Skills

171

(10)

Cross-Cultural Communication Barriers and Strategies for Breaking Through

177

(4)

Who Helps the Helper? Supervision and Teamwork

181

(2)

Summary

183

(1)

Discussion Questions

184

(1)

Learning Experiences

184

(1)

Recommended Readings

185

(1)

PART IV Human Services and Psychosocial Change Agentry

Problem Assessment, Planning, Brokering

186

(13)

Typical Problems Seen by Human Service Workers

186

(3)

The Need for Assessment

189

(1)

Principles of Triage

189

(4)

Client Care Data

193

(4)

Summary

197

(1)

Discussion Questions

198

(1)

Learning Experiences

198

(1)

Recommended Readings

198

(1)

Case Management: Cornerstone for Human Services

199

(21)

Approaches to Case Management

201

(10)

Case Management in a Variety of Settings

211

(3)

Issues in Case Management

214

(4)

That Other Kind of Case Management

215

(3)

Summary

218

(1)

Discussion Questions

219

(1)

Learning Experiences

219

(1)

Recommended Readings

219

(1)

Crisis Intervention

220

(22)

Understanding Crisis States

221

(3)

Signs of Crisis States

224

(1)

The Crisis of Major Disasters

225

(4)

Differences in Children and Adolescent Responses to Disaters by General Age Group

228

(1)

Common Crisis Situations

229

(3)

Intervening in the Crisis

232

(5)

Desirable Characteristics, Skills, and Abilities of Crisis Workers

232

(2)

Myths about Suicide

234

(3)

Crisis Intervention for the Crisis Worker

237

(1)

The Goal and Setting of Crisis Intervention

238

(1)

Summary

238

(2)

Discussion Questions

240

(1)

Learning Experiences

240

(1)

Endnotes

240

(1)

Recommended Readings

241

(1)

Culturally Favored Approaches: Indigenous Workers, Peer Therapy, Parahelpers, and Mutual Self-Help

242

(22)

Indigenous Workers

243

(2)

Peer Therapy

245

(5)

Parahelpers

250

(2)

Mutual Help Groups

252

(9)

Traditional Cultural Helpers and Human Services

253

(8)

Mutual Help Groups and the Human Service Worker

261

(1)

Summary

261

(1)

Discussion Questions

262

(1)

Learning Experiences

262

(1)

Endnotes

263

(1)

Recommended Readings

263

(1)

Social Intervention: Prevention through Environmental Change

264

(29)

Prevention in Human Services

266

(1)

Limited Social Interventions

267

(14)

The Ethnic Agency

270

(11)

Comprehensive Social Intervention

281

(6)

Human Services and Social Advocacy

287

(3)

Summary

290

(1)

Discussion Questions

291

(1)

Learning Experiences

292

(1)

Endnotes

292

(1)

Recommended Readings

292

(1)

Social Control, Human Rights, Ethics, and the Law

293

(14)

A Lack of Cultural Sensitivity?

294

(1)

The Therapeutic State

295

(1)

Human Rights Issues and Human Services

296

(5)

Ethical Standards for Human Service Workers

301

(4)

Summary

305

(1)

Discussion Questions

306

(1)

Learning Experiences

306

(1)

Recommended Readings

306

(1)

Glossary

307

(6)

References

313

(16)

Index

329

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