Human Services: A Student-Centered Approach, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

Kinsella, Susan

ISBN 10: 0205879527 ISBN 13: 9780205879526

Publisher: Pearson, 2014

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Teaches students how to master Human Service competencies.

Based on student ideas over the past 30 years, Human Services: A Student Centered Approach provides the tools to master the knowledge, values, and skills of the Human Service profession. Readers will gain the skills needed to practice beginning level intervention skills with individuals, groups, families, and the community.  Historical contributions of U.S. and global social programs serve as a strong foundation for the understanding of human services.   

 

Standards for Excellence Series - Designed to help students advance their knowledge, values, and skills, the Standards for Excellence Series assists students in associated CSHSE's National Standards to all levels of human service practice. The Standards for Excellence grid at the start of the book provides a quick view of the CSHSE Standards addressed in each chapter.

 

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About this title

About the Author

Dr. Susan Kinsella is the Department Chair for Human Services and Professor in the School of Education and Social Services at Saint Leo University.  She has 30 years of teaching and administrative experience in higher education, where she developed programs in Human Services and taught in undergraduate and graduate schools of social work and human services in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Georgia. Her work on a military campus involved her in service learning projects with her students as well as research and publications on services for military families. Dr. Kinsella has expertise in the child welfare field where she practiced and administered a child welfare program in Pennsylvania. Her specialization is in clincial work with children and families. She teaches coursework in Child Welfare, Group Dynamics, and Interpersonal Helping Skills among others. Her enthusiasm for teaching earned her the Outstanding College Professor Award. She has authored several articles in professional journals on such topics as services to the military, university/community partnerships in education, traditonal and nontraditional college students, quality day care, competency of child welfare workers, and service learning opportunties in Human Services.  She has served on editiorial boards, reviewed books and journals, developed curriculum materials for publishers and has been an invited speaker for the Georgia Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and the Georgia School Social Workers Association. Susan has a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Fordham University and an MSW from Marywood University.  Dr. Kinsella has been active in the Southern Organization for Human Services and the National Organization for Human Services and is currently a self-study reader for the Council on Standards in Human Services Education. She is a board member and Chancellor of the Southeast Region for Pi Gamma Mu, the International Honor Society, and is proud to be HS-BCP certified.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0205879527
• ISBN 13: 9780205879526
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388