Human Services

by Mehr, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780205317509
• ISBN10: 0205317502
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
PART I Orientation and Perspective
Human Services: A New Direction	1	(15)
What Is a Human Service Worker?	2	(2)
Typical Employment Titles for Human Service Workers	3	(1)
Current Conceptions of Human Services Systems	4	(7)
``There She Lies, the Great Melting Pot''	9	(2)
Social Policy and Human Services	11	(3)
Summary	14	(1)
Discussion Questions	14	(1)
Learning Experiences	15	(1)
Endnote	15	(1)
Recommended Readings	15	(1)
A History of Helping	16	(17)
The Dark Past of ``Helping''	17	(1)
Social Welfare: Toward a Community Approach	18	(4)
Historical Prejudice	20	(2)
Antecedents of the Human Services Concept	22	(8)
Summary	30	(1)
Discussion Questions	31	(1)
Learning Experiences	31	(1)
Endnote	32	(1)
Recommended Readings	32	(1)
PART II Human Services: Defining Roles, Problems, and Boundaries
Human Service Workers: Agents of Change	33	(26)
Human Services, a New Profession	33	(3)
Role Functions of the Human Service Worker	36	(3)
Human Service Workers as Agents of Change: Do They Help or Heal?	39	(1)
Human Service Workers: What They Really Do	40	(5)
Human Service Workers in a Multicultural Society	45	(7)
Competence and Credentialing	52	(3)
Summary	55	(2)
Discussion Questions	57	(1)
Learning Experiences	57	(1)
Endnotes	57	(1)
Recommended Readings	58	(1)
Human Services: Identifying Problems and Causes	59	(21)
Identifying Problems	61	(5)
Theoretical Causes of Problem Behavior	66	(10)
An Ecological Synthesis: The Life Matrix	76	(2)
Summary	78	(1)
Discussion Questions	79	(1)
Learning Experiences	79	(1)
Recommended Readings	79	(1)
Human Services Boundaries: Special Populations, Special Systems	80	(30)
Problems and Services for Children and Adolescents	81	(6)
Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	84	(2)
Types of Out-of-Home Placement	86	(1)
Domestic Abuse Services	87	(1)
Problems and Services for the Elderly	88	(2)
Drug Abuse: The Problem and Human Services	90	(5)
Services for Mentally Retarded People	95	(4)
Mental Health Problems and Service Systems	99	(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