Supervisory Management for the Human Services

Politics & Social Sciences

Austin, Michael J.

Social Sciences

Pearson College Div

This book offers a practical approach to conducting practice research in the field of human services. This evolving form of applied research seeks to understand practice in the context of the relationships between service providers and service users, between service providers and their managers, between agency-based service providers and community advocacy and support groups, and between agency managers and policy makers. Practice research represents a form of evidence-informed practice that involves a wide array of research designs and methods, in contrast to the narrower emphasis on experimental designs that characterizes evidence-based practice. The emerging principles and practices associated with practice research highlight: 1) including multiple, diverse stakeholders, 2) maximizing and negotiating participation, 3) promoting practitioner engagement in all phases of the research process, and 4) developing new identities for participants as research-minded practitioners and practice-minded researchers. The book is designed for researchers, practitioners, service users and students, and focuses on concrete experiences that illustrate the processes and activities involved in a specific, locally negotiated model of practice research. The book describes multiple practice research studies across an array of fields of practice in the human services, focusing on the research questions, designs, roles and relationships that have been developed in the context of a university-agency practice research partnership. These descriptions and stories are used to construct a comprehensive, detailed picture of the research process. Based upon these descriptions, the book synthesizes a set of broader principles and guidelines for practice researchers.

Practice Research in the Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model (Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods)

Carnochan, Sarah

Oxford University Press

Controversial Issues in Communities and Organizations

Lowe, Jane Isaacs

Allyn&Bacon

Supervision as Collaboration in the Human Services: Building a Learning Culture integrates the latest thinking in the human services to provide supervisors and those preparing to become supervisors with a new approach to the important skills and knowledge needed for effective practice in the 21st century. While it builds upon past efforts to define the principles and practices of supervision in the human services, it seeks to chart new territory that reflects the changing nature of organizational life. Supervision as Collaboration in the Human Services uses a framework that features the key aspects of a learning culture, the process of organizational learning, and the roles that supervisors can play in transforming traditional human service organizations into learning organizations.

Supervision as Collaboration in the Human Services: Building a Learning Culture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hopkins, Karen M.

Mental Health

Sage Publications, Inc.

Human Services Integration

Addressing the multiple meanings of service integration, Human Services Integration analyzes how motivations and expectations for social service integration differ significantly among different players in the service system. In a period of major budget cutbacks and welfare reform, however, it is important that service providers collaborate to reduce or eliminate boundaries between categorically defined and provided services. This book tells you about the efforts being made to provide existing services more efficiently while avoiding duplication and waste. As you will quickly see, developing consensus for service integration efforts at the administrative, community, and staff levels will result in the ability to set achievable goals and objectives and secure cooperation at all levels.Human Services Integration covers practice principles for managing organizational and community change and offers strategies for organizing human service agencies and overcoming fragmented service integration in communities with complex problems and needs. To also help you identify specific service intergration activities that are relevant in the context of unique communities, it discusses: specifications for conducting a self-assessment of progress at the local level toward social service integration goals Georgia’s Family Connection, a statewide human services initiative interweaving formal and informal systems of care in a community-centered approach to service integration a children’s initiative collaborative social science theory pertinent to service integration gathering support from elected officials such as boards of supervisors, city leaders, and local elected boardsHuman Services Integration will help you understand why service integration cannot be defined by a particular service model or outcome. Its insight will also help you understand why involving service users and community members in the design and delivery of services is fundamental to developing an integrated service system that is culturally competent, empowering, and responsive to its neighborhood and community context.

Routledge

This unique self-instructional text involves students in the learning process and helps them develop and apply the skills needed for working with people. It presents comprehensive coverage of major practice areas – brokering, consumer advocacy, mobilizing, interviewing, case management, relationship building, and assessment. Encouraging students to view people in a positive way with the ability to change, the fourth edition contains a new chapter on managing the transition to new service delivery systems, updated material on clinical methods, revised material on policy practice, and updated cases that reflect a stronger emphasis on diversity.

Delivering Human Services: A Learning Approach to Practice (4th Edition)

Halley, Alexis A.

Kopp, Judy

Pearson

A guide for human service agencies that want to evaluate the effectiveness of their programmes, justify funding, or to find out ways to improve services and programmes. Chapter by chapter it reviews why social service and charity organizations should evaluate, how to prepare and start, and how to use evaluations for monitoring and decision-making.

Evaluating Your Agency′s Programs (SAGE Human Services Guides)

This practical guide to personnel management is aimed directly at promoting organizational excellence and productivity in the social services. The use of task-based job descriptions and performance appraisal methods are emphasized for their importance in employee recruitment, evaluation, training, career planning and dismissal. Specific guidelines for these central personnel management functions are presented and supported by empirical research and business and social science literature.

Managing Human Services Personnel (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Business & Money

Pecora, Peter J.

Management & Leadership

Managing Staff Development Programs in Human Service Agencies

Brannon, Diane

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Professionals and Paraprofessionals

Human Sciences Pr

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Austin, Michael J.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Austin, Michael J.