The Partnership Model in Human Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Background and Theoretical Foundations

   1. The Partnership Approach

      Pages 3-16

   2. Changing Practices in Human Services

      Pages 17-37

   3. Theoretical Foundations I

      Pages 39-65

   4. Theoretical Foundations II

      Pages 67-91

3. The Client’s Social World and Methods for Discovering It

   1. The Social World of the Service User

      Pages 95-120

   2. Identification Techniques I

      Pages 121-141

   3. Identification Techniques II

      Pages 143-173

   4. Identification Techniques III

      Pages 175-208

4. Models of Intervention and Evaluation

   1. Linking Identification and Intervention

      Pages 211-240

   2. Social Change, Social Problems, and the Limits of Intervention

      Pages 241-256

   3. Service Evaluation

      Pages 257-286

5. Back Matter

   Pages 287-308

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This book provides students and practitioners with a theoretical and methodological foundation for implementing client- and family-centered `partnership' approaches in human services. Unlike other texts in the field, the author integrates the principles and practices of sociology with applied work in the helping professions and shows how key sociological concepts can be used to explain the nature of clients' perspectives and expand client opportunities.

• Evaluation
• intervention
• nature
• social change
• sociology

`This volume represents a synthesis of human service practice and the academic field of sociology. The primary audience for this book is upper-level undergraduate sociology students, but the material has been used in a graduate course on sociological practice. Professionals practicing in the human service field, especially those without backgrounds in sociology who are trying to align their practices with the new client- and family-centered partnership models may find this book useful.'
Administration and Policy in Mental Health, January 2001

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana

  Rosalyn Benjamin Darling

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