Human Services in Contemporary America - Hardcover

Schmolling, Paul; Youkeles, Merrill; Burger, William R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534345719 ISBN 13: 9780534345716

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1996

Synopsis

The Fourth Edition of this remarkable book inspires students to become helping professionals, while grounding them in the realities they will face. This book's multidisciplinary approach to the field of human services gives students an overview of the helping field, of the groups of people who get help from human services, of the programs available to them, and the practical skills workers can employ. Based on the authors' belief that a humanistic perspective combined with a realistic awareness of pressing social problems provides the best foundation for creative and effective helping, the book provides a comprehensive survey of what the human services field has become and what it takes to be a human services worker.

About this title

About the Author:

Ph.D., New York University

Review:

Human Services In Contemporary America uses a multidisciplinary approach to the field of human services, giving readers an overview of the helping field, of the groups of people who get help from human services, of the programs available to them, and the practical skills workers can employ. Human Services In Contemporary America is a comprehensive survey of what the human services field has become and what it takes to be a human services worker. Human Services In Contemporary America is an articulate and comprehensive introduction to a field that has great implications for today's national dialogue over issues that range from welfare reform to child care to deadbeat parents to education and much, much more. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0534345719
• ISBN 13: 9780534345716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 375