Utilizing Community Resources: An Overview of Human Services - Softcover

Crimando, William; T. F. Riggar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577662903 ISBN 13: 9781577662907

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Counselors need to become familiar with a broad range of community services in order to provide comprehensive services to their clients. They must be conversant with what each supporting agency does and what it can offer their clients, who have a variety of different needs that can be met by experts in different helping professions. The 33 articles in this practical guide detail how specific human-services organizations serve clients. Each chapter is devoted to a particular agency, organization, or program. The authors explore how agencies evolved historically, providing clear indicators of current and future activities. They then describe the group of people the agency intends to target and establish the goals of the agency. Finally, they examine the precise services the agency provides to clients. All three components of each chapter contain crucial information to enable counselors to assist clients, develop realistic expectations, and coordinate available services. Readers will increase their professional expertise and will be able to serve clients more effectively and efficiently.

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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: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1577662903
• ISBN 13: 9781577662907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368