A Guidebook to Human Service Professions

A Guidebook to Human Service Professions
Author: William George Emener
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0398079935

The twenty-one all new chapters in this second edition poignantly review a variety of different careers designed for individuals undecided about their future, beyond a desire or "a calling" to work with people, and provide excellent cutting edge information about a large variety of human service professions and occupations, wrapped in the authors' "real passion for helping people." Part I discusses some of the tangible and intrinsic reasons why people want to be human service professionals, and defines and discusses career choice and human service, as well as the concepts of career, job and PR.

Subject Catalog

Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 926
Release: 1970
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Introduction to Competence-based Social Work

Introduction to Competence-based Social Work
Author: Michael E. Sherr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2020
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190923032

Social work is rooted in the values of service, social justice, and strong interpersonal relationships, but as the profession evolves, so must the approach to education. Michael E. Sherr and Johnny M. Jones have created an introductory textbook written for the future of social work. The second edition integrates the knowledge of practice, policy, research, HBSE, and field work with the skills and practice behaviors necessary for students to become fully competent social workers by the time they graduate. Students are introduced to social work through a "Why We Do, What We Do" model that emphasizes how and why social workers commit to their careers. 41 case vignettes, 16 of which are new, engage students and present a clear picture of the profession to help them become invested in enhancing and restoring the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities. Visit www.oup-arc.com for student and instructor resources.

The Supervisor's Guidebook

The Supervisor's Guidebook
Author: Dennis H. Reid
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2021-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0398093601

This guidebook will show how supervisors can ensure support staff to deliver quality services for people with disabilities whose quality of life is heavily dependent on how well those services are provided. Supervisors must ensure staff receive necessary training in their job duties, are actively supported to stay motivated to work proficiently and, at times, effectively assisted to improve their work performance. Supervisors have to overcome many challenges to fulfill these critical duties, often involving frequent changes in their staff work force and varying or limited resources. Complicating the job of staff supervisors is a lack of formal training necessary to perform their supervisory duties effectively. When supervisors do receive training in how to supervise staff work performance, the training is not always very useful. The training is frequently too general to equip supervisors with knowledge and skills to affect staff work performance on a routine basis. The training also is commonly based on unproven means of promoting quality staff performance, stemming from current fads or ideology that has little if any hard evidence to support the training content. Over the last five decades, a technology for supervising staff work performance in the human services has been evolving, derived from applied research conducted in many human service agencies. However, most supervisors have not had opportunities to become aware of these evidence-based means of fulfilling their supervisory duties. The purpose of The Supervisor’s Guidebook is to describe the existing evidence-based approach to supervision. Description of the approach is supplemented with practical suggestions based on the authors’ combined experience encompassing over 100 years of supervising staff performance in the human services. The intent is to provide supervisors with detailed information about tried and tested means of promoting diligent and proficient staff performance and to do so in a way that maximizes staff enjoyment with their work.

We are Not Alone

We are Not Alone
Author: Jade Christine Angelica
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2002
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780789009258

The central features of this workbook are two first-person fictional narratives that were written for a Massachusetts District Attorney's Office to provide to victims of child abuse so that they could understand the process of criminal justice they find themselves in.