Human Services Technology (Haworth Social Administration)

<p>Featuring new and updated information on computer technologies, including networking and using the Internet as a necessary tool for professionals, Human Services Technology: Understanding, Designing, and Implementing Computer and Internet Applications in the Social Services will help individual human service professionals and agencies understand, design, implement, and manage computer and Internet applications. Combining several relevant fields, this informative guide provides you with the knowledge to effectively collect, store, manipulate, and communicate information to better serve clients and successfully manage human service agencies. Human Services Technology explains basic technological terms and gives you the history of technology uses before you explore other areas of Information Technology (IT). This essential guide will also improve your ability to find and understand recent research and information on important topics. Human Services Technology will expand your technical know-how and help you better serve clients by offering you proven methods and explanations, such as: </p>
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<li> describing terms--such as hardware, networking, and telecommunications--with easy-to-understand analogies and examples </li>
<li> using IT applications to support social policies, improve service coordination among agencies, efficiently manage agencies in order to save time, support workers’decision making with information, and assist clients </li>
<li> solving the problems that internal and external issues cause when determining IT needs, such as working with federal reporting requirements </li>
<li> understanding and dealing with the 10 most critical IT issues for management</li>
</ul>Containing dozens of graphs, tables, and figures, this knowledgeable book will help you with any IT problem you encounter. Symbols by certain subjects in the book indicate that you can find more information and references on that issue through links on the book?s accompanying Web site. Human Services Technology will enable you to thoroughly understand and use IT to help you offer improved services to clients and manage agencies with increased efficiency and effectiveness.

Human Services Technology: Understanding, Designing, and Implementing Computer and Internet Applications in the Social Services (Haworth Social Administration)

Business & Money

Slavin, Simon

Schoech, Richard

Economics

CRC-Press

Here is a book to assist human service professionals and students in becoming intelligent users of computing technologies. In focusing on the entire spectrum of computing and its current and potential application to the human services, this enlightening book examines computing as a societal phenomenon and as a tool for improving the decisions made in the process of helping clients. Human service professionals can move successfully into the information age with this important volume. In a clear and understandable manner, Human Services Computing synthesizes available information from the fields of computer science, systems analysis, information management, and communication within the context of the human service environment. Author Dick Schoech illustrates the theories and the particular tools that make it possible for human services workers to follow the steps within their standard decision-making process--investigating, recording information, formulating alternatives, implementing preferred solutions, and reflecting on results--using the technology available today. He also explores what computing means to clients, practitioners, managers, and policymakers.Human Services Computing is divided into three parts that build on the premise that human service decision making should be understood before applying technology to it. Part I focuses on the human service environment and decision-making process. Part II emphasizes the technology of computing, with chapters on hardware, programming and languages, software, and data management. Part III addresses the applications of computing, including human service software, types of computing systems, the implementation and management of computing systems, and future trends and issues that will have an impact on the human services.This is an essential and practical volume for professionals and students in the human services today. Throughout the book, descriptions of technology and its application are tailored for human service professionals and students with little or no systems, business, or computing background. Computing concepts and terms are defined, helping the reader gradually develop the vocabulary necessary to understand and discuss this highly technical area.

Human Services Computing: Concepts and Applications (HAWORTH SERIES IN SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

<p>Here is a book to assist human service professionals and students in becoming intelligent users of computing technologies. In focusing on the entire spectrum of computing and its current and potential application to the human services, this enlightening book examines computing as a societal phenomenon and as a tool for improving the decisions made in the process of helping clients. Human service professionals can move successfully into the information age with this important volume. In a clear and understandable manner, Human Services Computing synthesizes available information from the fields of computer science, systems analysis, information management, and communication within the context of the human service environment. Author Dick Schoech illustrates the theories and the particular tools that make it possible for human services workers to follow the steps within their standard decision-making process--investigating, recording information, formulating alternatives, implementing preferred solutions, and reflecting on results--using the technology available today. He also explores what computing means to clients, practitioners, managers, and policymakers.Human Services Computing is divided into three parts that build on the premise that human service decision making should be understood before applying technology to it. Part I focuses on the human service environment and decision-making process. Part II emphasizes the technology of computing, with chapters on hardware, programming and languages, software, and data management. Part III addresses the applications of computing, including human service software, types of computing systems, the implementation and management of computing systems, and future trends and issues that will have an impact on the human services.This is an essential and practical volume for professionals and students in the human services today. Throughout the book, descriptions of technology and its application are tailored for human service professionals and students with little or no systems, business, or computing background. Computing concepts and terms are defined, helping the reader gradually develop the vocabulary necessary to understand and discuss this highly technical area.</p>

Human Services Computing: Concepts and Applications

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

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