This sensitive yet practical book explores challenges to adult close relationships that result from long-term illness and disability. The authors focus on illness and: relationship change; interpersonal supports and stressors; and relationship-focused coping.
This sensitive yet practical book explores challenges to adult close relationships that result from long-term illness and disability. The authors focu...
Now that business, government, and other fields are embracing Total Quality Management (TQM) as their management philosphy, TQM may also hold the solution for problems that exist in human services organizations today. After a brief history of TQM, the author discusses the philosophy of management, quality as an organizational goal, the challenges of determining an organization's customers, and collecting and using customer quality data. He also describes how to achieve quality improvement through teamwork and shows how to use brainstorming, cause and effect diagrams, check sheets, and pareto...
Now that business, government, and other fields are embracing Total Quality Management (TQM) as their management philosphy, TQM may also hold the solu...
Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and social needs of the growing number of elderly people caring for adults with developmental disabilities. Issues explored include: the needs of elderly parents caring for adult offspring with learning difficulties; changes in care-giving activities; the increasing burden of care-giving; the ordeal of planning future out-of-home placement; and the needs of care-givers of ageing adults with Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. A concluding...
Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and s...
Basic techniques for achieving group success are described in the latest edition of this popular handbook for group facilitators, which clearly details when, how and why to use each technique. Concrete examples are provided for each technique, and its application to a wide range of topics is discussed. These include contract negotiation, mediation, confrontation, gatekeeping, focusing, responding to feelings, rewarding effort and achievement, information management and summarizing. Completely revised and updated, this edition includes improved practice exercises, an expanded discussion on the...
Basic techniques for achieving group success are described in the latest edition of this popular handbook for group facilitators, which clearly detail...
Thoroughly revised, enlarged and redesigned, the Second Edition of this successful book presents useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and modifying existing ones. The authors provide techniques and exercises based on the most recent group therapy research to help to develop groups that can meet a variety of personal, organizational and community goals.
New to this edition are: all the steps that go into the creation of a group - from the idea of starting a group to planning and conducting the first meeting; factors of race and gender in groups; and the empowerment of...
Thoroughly revised, enlarged and redesigned, the Second Edition of this successful book presents useful guidelines for effectively composing new group...
This highly practical guide for both experienced and novice professionals and students reveals the steps involved in the crucial first meeting with a client. The authors approach the task of an initial interview by providing an overview of the therapeutic process and what to expect from clients. The book also explores the practical basics of therapy - counsellor-client roles, physical settings, communication dynamics, assessment and diagnosis, record-keeping, goals and contracts and trust-building. Individual chapters discuss specialist topics such as working with couples and families, the...
This highly practical guide for both experienced and novice professionals and students reveals the steps involved in the crucial first meeting with a ...
This book is geared towards designing programmes to meet specific social needs and organizing the relevant community and social service resources to implement them. Structured around a single case study, the book clearly illustrates how to effectively plan, implement and evaluate a small scale social programme. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the reader to vicariously participate in the evolution of the programme. Useful charts, time lines and resource lists are included and can be easily referenced and utilized.
This book is geared towards designing programmes to meet specific social needs and organizing the relevant community and social service resources to i...
This book is geared towards designing programmes to meet specific social needs and organizing the relevant community and social service resources to implement them. Structured around a single case study, the book clearly illustrates how to effectively plan, implement and evaluate a small scale social programme. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the reader to vicariously participate in the evolution of the programme. Useful charts, time lines and resource lists are included and can be easily referenced and utilized.
This book is geared towards designing programmes to meet specific social needs and organizing the relevant community and social service resources to i...
Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This highly accessible text takes into account the organizational dynamics that readers are likely to have experienced and provides them with the conceptual tools for reassessing their understanding and considering how to act on their new insights. Renowned scholar Armand Lauffer shows readers how to apply organizational theories to challenges they confront at work, and to uncover other challenges they may not yet be aware...
Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This book is inteneded to help students and professionals become more aware of group decision making processes and how each member contributes to it to make better quality decisions. The first part addresses rules for effective decision making. Then the book covers such as issues as recruiting members, preperations for meetings, building an agenda, and the positions and roles required for effective group decision making. Subsequent chapters deal with the chair and participants and the various types of groups, such as boards, advisory groups and staff groups and finally it addresses electronic...
This book is inteneded to help students and professionals become more aware of group decision making processes and how each member contributes to it t...
