Utilizing Community Resources: An Overview of Human Services - Softcover

Crimando, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574440209 ISBN 13: 9781574440201

Publisher: CRC Press, 1996

Synopsis

Since the human service professional is responsible for the client's interactions with the community and society at large, it is essential that he or she know and understand what all other assisting agencies can offer each client.
Encyclopedic in its coverage, Utilizing Community Resources: An Overview of Human Services provides a special and very unique presentation for professionals in all fields of human services with all of the information needed to assist and guide clients. With contributions from some 40 authors, this is the source you will turn to over and over again.
Here you will find assistance in making the most of the overlapping systems of the most prominent and beneficial human service agencies. In addition, there is information on how to enlist the expertise of professionals in other specialty areas.
This text is perfect for professionals of all experience levels and students in training. It is currently being used throughout the United States in university-level courses.

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From the Publisher

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Bibb, Rose's Story (ISBN 1577662970); Carter et al., Therapeutic Recreation: A Practical Approach, Third Edition (ISBN 1577662199); Clifton-Dahms, Grassroots Organizations, Second Edition (ISBN 0881337269); and Hershenson et al., Community Counseling: Contemporary Theory and Practice (ISBN 1577662989).

Review

Encyclopedic in its coverage, Utilizing Community Resources: An Overview of Human Services provides a special and very unique presentation for professionals in all fields of human services with all of the information needed to assist and guide clients. With contributions from some 40 authors, this is a reference to be used again and again. Here the reader will find assistance in making the most of the overlapping systems of the most prominent and beneficial human service agencies. In addition, there is information on how to enlist the expertise of professionals in other specialty areas. Chapters cover health and diagnostic services, social services, rehabilitation services, vocational and employment services, legal services and advocacy, education, and human services. The text is perfect for professionals at all experience levels, students in training, and any interested nonspecialist general reader. -- Midwest Book Review

Since the human service professional is responsible for the client's interaction with the community and society at large, it is essential that he or she understand what all other assisting agencies can offer each client. This book identifies professionals in all allied human service fields and offers critical information needed to properly assist and guide clients. This book provides typical referral questions, details on purpose, structure of services offered, legislative history, and utilization criteria, eligibility requirements, benefits provided, funding, model components, and social services. -- From the Publisher

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574440209
• ISBN 13: 9781574440201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368