Theory, Practice, and Trends in Human Services

Neukrug (Old Dominion U.) provides an overview of the human services field that covers definitions, history, theoretical approaches, the helping interview, human systems, diversity, research, evaluation, and assessment. This edition removes the chapter on the human service professional and the world of work, with some information moved to the new afterword. The chapter on human service professionals in a pluralistic society has been expanded into two chapters on advocacy, social justice, and multicultural issues from a theoretical perspective, and on working with a wide range of diverse clients. Other changes include updated information on the definition of the human service professional and related mental health professions, the characteristics of effective human service professionals, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and psychotropic drugs; added and revised information on standards, grounded theory, the use of the soap format in writing case notes, and the importance of crisis, disaster, and trauma training, social justice and advocacy, and an international perspective; a rewritten chapter on theoretical approaches; additional interview skills; new and updated sections on postmodernism and social construction in personality development, administrative and counseling supervision, managed care and medicine, stress, burnout, and cynicism, and wellness; new vignettes; and updated statistics. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)