This text focuses on professional practice involving various severely impeded population groups which require comprehensive service, such as: persistently mentally ill, frail elderly, physically disabled, developmentally disabled and dependent children. This book discusses new service concepts and approaches to these clients and outlines an empirical model of pratice for 15 specific professional functions.

Practice With Highly Vulnerable Clients: Case Management and Community-Based Service

Politics & Social Sciences

Rothman, Jack

Social Sciences

Pearson College Div

Social R and D: Research and Development in the Human Services

This book is ideal for social workers who are concerned with the newly-emerging client populations in America, people with severe and long-term impediments that diminish their capacity to join the everyday society. This includes the mentally ill, the frail, elderly, physically and developmentally disabled among others. New service concepts and approaches are needed that provide sustained care free from institutional confines. This case management book integrates both theory and practice and deals with both in an individual and community practice. It utilizes a clear, conceptual model of social work practice and case management and is derived from field research. New and practicing social workers.

Case Management: Integrating Individual and Community Practice (2nd Edition)

Sager, Jon Simon

Pearson

Planning and organizing for social change;: Action principles from social science research

Columbia University Press

Planning and Organizing for Social Change; Action Principles from Social Science Research

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Promoting Innovation and Change in Organizations and Communities: A Planning Manual

John Wiley&Sons

Runaway and Homeless Youth: Strengthening Services to Families and Children

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Using Research in Organizations: A Guide to Successful Application (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Applied social research is a resource as yet largely untapped by the very organizations that could most benefit from it. In order to discover the ways in which research can best be brought into social programmes, the author went directly to organizations that have made effective use of research -- in this case British Social Services departments -- which are uniquely appropriate for this kind of study as they are staffed with researchers as well as administrators. The answers of key informants, synthesized with existing utilization research, provides the first comprehensive attempt to define the concerns and techniqes of an important new focus of study.  ′In this short volume, Rothman has done researchers of all types a favo

Business & Money

Business Culture

Sage Publications, Inc.

The task of the direct service worker, planner, organizer, or administrator is formidable. Often goals are broad, idealistic, and unpopular. There may be strong organizational or community resistance to innovative approaches or to increased service budgets. This manual is a preliminary effort to confront such problems and provide effective strategies that will enable the ′doing of good′ in execution as well as in intent.

Changing Organizations and Community Programs (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Erlich, John L.

Teresa, Joseph G.

Rothman and his associates evaluate the efforts to get community mental health professionals to use a new handbook. They compare the campaign′s direct mail advertising with workshops that introduced the handbook to key people. Which worked best, mass or personal communication? The authors provide a range of findings with practical implications for human service agencies, researchers and marketing professionals. They also integrate the Diffusion School of information dissemination with the more business-based social marketing approach. ′In addition to excellent reference sections, Marketing Human Service Innovations is well organized, including a succinct guide or ′academic executive summary′ in the first chapter. Considerin

Marketing Human Service Innovations (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Management & Leadership

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