Reinventing Human Services: Community- And Family-Centered Practice

Adams, Paul

ISBN 10: 0202360989 / ISBN 13: 9780202360980

Published by Aldine De Gruyter, New York, 1995

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Underlining & notes to first 40 pages, name inked on first page, else text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 286 pages. Seller Inventory # S113-017715

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reinventing Human Services: Community- And ...

Publisher: Aldine De Gruyter, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the difficulty of the task. It draws on successful examples in Britain, Canada, and the United States to develop a new paradigm for social work practice, one that integrates individual, family, and community levels of practice and reconceptualizes professional-community relations. The interdisciplinary team of authors includes scholars, researchers, and practitioners from the disciplines of economics, urban planning, communications, criminal justice, psychology, marriage and family therapy, education, and social work.

Review:

“Originating in a faculty research seminar, essays in this collection focus on the need to reconceptualize human services as family and community centered. Rather than treating individual pathology, this orientation emphasizes empowerment and client strengths using family and community interactions. Despite differences in the level of abstraction and writing style, all contributors share a community- and family-centered conceptualization of human services... Their prescription is based on sound theory and many successful demonstration projects. For all social work or human service collections.”

—M. E. Elwell, Choice