Human Services category: 778 books
The Complete Leader
Handbook of Essentials for Human Services Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
The Complete Leader: Handbook of Essentials for Human Services Leadership gives leaders within human services organizations with lay or professional leadership responsibilities, over 25 essential practices for human services. Special attention is paid to supervision, case management, evaluation, teamwork...
Making Strategy Count in the Health and Human Services Sector
Lessons Learned from 20 Organizations and Chief Strategy Officers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This is the first guide to achieving long-term impact and social change by employing critical strategies in the health and human services sector. It is based on lessons from a learning lab of 20 human services organizations and their chief strategy officers who, as part of the ìStrategy Countsî...
Building Cultures and Climates for Effective Human Services
Understanding and Improving Organizational Social Contexts with the ARC Model
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
It is widely acknowledged that many healthcare, behavioral health, and social service organizations provide less-than-optimal services and that the challenge of improving services depends on successfully changing organizational culture and climate. However, there are almost no organizational-level...
Leadership and Change in Human Services
Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
For over forty years Wolf Wolfensberger has been a significant figure in the world of human services, especially in the field of learning disability. His work on normalization and citizen advocacy in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been acknowledged by supporters and critics alike to have been...
Human Services Management
Organizational Leadership in Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities...
by Jeane Anastas
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2000
Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services integrates a range of research techniques into a single epistemological framework and presents a balanced approach to the teaching of research methods in the "helping professions." Jeane W. Anastas begins with a discussion of the different...
by Howard Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Written in an interesting, accessible and informative manner, with 1600 entries this book is an ideal reference for human service professionals and students preparing for exams. Special features include: extensive cross-referencing, a directory of human service organizations, short biographies of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The traditional lines of demarcation between service providers and service users are shifting. Professionals in managed service organizations are working to incorporate the voices of service users into their missions and the way they function, and service users, with growing access to knowledge, have...
The Human Services Internship Experience
Helping Students Find Their Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Human Services Internship Experience: Helping Students Find Their Way aims to help students in field-based courses bridge theory and practice during their internships. The goal is to show students how to apply their academic work in a real-world setting and to confirm and expand their identity as human service professionals.
by Frederic G. Reamer
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Should a therapist disclose personal information to a client, accept a client's gift, or provide a former client with a job? Is it appropriate to exchange email or text messages with clients or correspond with them on social networking websites? Some acts, such as initiating a sexual relationship...
Tangled Relationships
Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual relationship with a client, are obvious pitfalls to avoid, but what about more subtle issues, like hugging a client or disclosing personal information...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Creating a safe and trusting environment is a pivotal concern within any professional setting. By increasing awareness and providing accurate information, misbehavior problems can more easily be prevented. Sexual Misconduct in the Education and Human Services Sector is a pivotal reference source for...
by Dr. Jeffrey A. Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
A Brief Primer of Helping Skills is a highly readable, accessible, and practical introduction to the skills of helping and making a difference in people's lives. In an engaging and concise style, author Jeffrey A. Kottler gives students in various professions an overview of the theory, process, and...
The Aging Networks, Ninth Edition
A Guide to Policy, Programs, and Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Praise for the Eighth Edition:
“This small volume is not only an excellent learning tool, but also a "must-have" handbook for aging professionals in many fields.”
-Noreen A. Shugrue
Research Associate, University of Connecticut Center on Aging
Farmington, CT
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