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This innovative and provocative new book redefines what it means to deliver case management.services. It critiques current practices that frustrate professionals and service users alike, and offers a new perspective intended to make this work more rewarding and helpful for clients. It abandons the "victim psychology" and "charity approaches" still so prevalent in the health and human services, and replaces them with strategies intended to increase clients' and professionals' personal power. The book includes clients' perspectives, outlines empowerment theories as a framework for practice, provides practical information on how to develop an empowerment plan, addresses ethical issues, including the identification and prevention of compassion fatigue and burnout, discusses how clients and case managers can help to build community capacity, and includes effective advocacy strategies and tactics. Those who have used this manual to improve their practice report more successful outcomes even with formerly "resistant" clients, as well as a higher degree of professional satisfaction. It should be required reading for nurses, social workers, community mental health and addictions workers, and those working with newcomers, people with disabilities, and women who have survived domestic violence.
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About the Author:
Dr. Spindel has over thirty years' experience in the childrens' mental health, developmental services, community health, and postsecondary education sectors, where she has held positions in teaching, management, and clinical areas. She is the author of Psychological Warfare At Work, a book about harassment and bullying in the workplace. Her expertise in advocacy, working with high risk populations, social welfare, and empowerment-oriented case management, as well as her long time volunteer contributions resulted in her receipt of a Government of Canada medal for service to her community and other awards from community-based organizations. She has served on the Council of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Services Workers, as well as the Standards of Practice, Fitness to Practice and Discipline Committees. Her Doctoral and Masters degrees in Education specializing in Applied Psychology and Sociology are from the University of Toronto. She also has Compassion Fatigue and Field Traumatology specialization from the Traumatology Institute in Toronto. She is currently a cross appointed full-time professor at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto and the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.
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- PublisherSpindel & Associates Inc.
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0968815030
- ISBN 13 9780968815038
- BindingSpiral-bound
- Edition number1
- Number of pages120
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