Humane Managed Care? : Providers Respond

Humane Managed Care? takes the lead in the national debate on health care in the United States. As no other book on health care issues today, this volume has fostered dialogue among human services professionals and consumers.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
Juxtaposes economics of care with policy decisions that affect health care, mental health care, and services to families and children
Features many case studies that help build a basis for informed action
Focuses on the critical issues of social work in managed care
Looks at relevant research on managed care and presents guidelines and resources for researchers

Also available:

New Management in Human Services: 2nd Edition - ISBN 0871012510
Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research - ISBN 0871013509

NASW Press

NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad.

Known for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

-Social work in the field of aging
-Models of social work
-Social work with children and adolescents
-Ethics in social work
-Community organization
-Professional development

Gerald Schamess, MSS, is professor of social work at Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts, and editor of the Smith College Studies in Social Work. He has published widely on treatment process and group treatment for children and adolescents, and he has practiced clinically since 1958. Anita Lightburn, MSS, MEd, EdD, is dean and Elizabeth Marting Truehaft Professor at Smith College School for Social Work and a member of the Academy of Practice. She has taught clinical social work practice for 25 years and is an author and consultant. Before assuming the deanship in 1994, she was a practicing clinician and an associate professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, New York. Recent research includes family support for at-risk families and knowledge development to support work with traumatized children and families.