Advanced Practice in Human Service Agencies: Issues, Trends, and Treatment Perspectives (Skills, Techniques, & Process for Human Services)

Lupe and Randy Alle-Corliss' book addresses the practical, hands-on field experience that every student in human services is required to explore. The authors go beyond providing a basic orientation to field course work to zero in on more in-depth skills that the advanced student must master, such as what models of therapy apply to different client populations. A journal-type format with an emphasis on self-awareness makes this book an especially useful tool, whether the student is in the classroom or out in the field in a human service agency.

A husband and wife team, Randy and Lupe both possess the wonderful combination of teaching skills and hands-on practice experience. Both authors have a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California, and are members of the Society of Clinical Social Workers and National Association of Social Workers. Randy is also an active member of NOHSE (National Organization of Human Service Educators). They are both lecturers in the Human Services program at California State University, Fullerton, where they have taught practicum, fieldwork and internship classes for the past 18 years. Randy and Lupe are both licensed clinical social workers who also work full-time in the Department of Psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente and have a small private practice.