Crisis in the human services: national and international issues; selected papers from a conference held at the University of Cambridge, September 1996

Editor:
ADAMS Robert
Publisher:
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. Schools of Social Policy and Social S
Publication year:
1997
Pagination:
424p.,bibliogs.
Place of publication:
Kingston upon Hull

Includes papers on: lawyers and social work serving the poor; research on low income women in Brazil; ethical issues in community care practice; research in the context of human services in crisis; boundary crossing in community care; citizen participation models; schizophrenia in a cultural context; the paradigm shift in the delivery of public services and the crisis of professionalism; partnerships with service users - considerations for research; education and labour; methodological issues for the qualitative health researcher of diaspora communities; elderly women prisoners; evaluating for empowerment; solving the problem of health care costs; services for people with learning difficulties; deinstitutionalisation policies in Queensland; debt and budget deficit reduction policies in the USA; the impact of constitutional change in South Africa on social work services; new trends in human services in America; health promotion in Cuba; the anti-rape movement on campus; protecting children against sexual abuse; distance learning; developing human services managers through work based learning; multidisciplinary services in primary care; partnerships with users; teamwork across disciplines; the attack on social work in New York hospitals and the fight back; government guidance in the construction of the social work profession; the provision of psychosocial care after major incidents; and crisis, change and innovation in social work education.

Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, law, learning disabilities, managers, men, low income, multidisciplinary services, poverty, primary care, rape, schizophrenia, service users, severe mental health problems, social policy, social work, social work education, social care provision, social workers, teamwork, user participation, women, black and minority ethnic people, budgetary control, change management, community care, deinstitutionalisation, disaster services, distance learning, health care;
Location(s):
Brazil, Australia, South Africa, United States
ISBN print:
1 874474 31 1

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