Theory, practice, and trends in human services : an overview of an emerging profession
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Theory, practice, and trends in human services : an overview of an emerging profession
Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-342) and index
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Description
This is a comprehensive overview of human services with an emphasis on developmental understanding. Basic human services topics such as history, theory and interventions are covered, and the author goes one step further, to explore a multicultural awareness. The author presents an overview and delineation of the various kinds of human services professions and discusses possible employment in the different fields of human services.
Table of Contents
- The development of the human service worker
- The human service professional: history and current professional issues
- Theoretical approaches to human service work
- Counseling techniques
- The development of the person
- Systems: what are they, how do we work with them?
- The pluralistic human service worker
- Research, testing, and evaluation
- Career development and the human service worker
- A look to the future: trends in the functions and roles of the human service worker. Experiential excercises.
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