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1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages) : illustrations.
This book provides students and practitioners with a theoretical and methodological foundation for implementing client- and family-centered `partnership' approaches in human services. Unlike other texts in the field, the author integrates the principles and practices of sociology with applied work in the helping professions and shows how key sociological concepts can be used to explain the nature of clients' perspectives and expand client opportunities.
Background and Theoretical Foundations -- The Partnership Approach: A Sociological Model of Practice -- The Verstehen Approach in Sociology -- The Partnership Approach -- The Partnership Model and Sociological Practice -- The Partnership Model and Grounded Theory -- The Structural Approach in Social Work -- The Contribution of Sociological Theory and Methods -- Changing Practices in Human Services -- An Illustrative Study: Parents of Children with Mild Mental Retardation -- The Status Inequality Perspective -- The Partnership Approach -- The Shift toward a Partnership Perspective -- Education -- Social Work -- Psychology/Mental Health -- Health Care -- Other Services -- When Is Sociological Intervention Appropriate? -- Theoretical Foundations I: Social Structure -- The Organization of Human Service Agencies: Bureaucracy and Its Consequences -- Advantages for the Service User -- Disadvantages for the Service User -- Total Institutions: An Extreme Form of Bureaucratic Organization -- Newer Organizational Forms -- Opportunity Structures: Preexisting Organizational Constraints Affecting Service Users -- Roles: The Expected Behaviors of Service Providers and Service Users -- The Professional Role -- The Client Role -- Conflict between Client and Professional Role Prescriptions -- New Roles for Clients and Professionals -- Role-Play Exercise -- Theoretical Foundations II: Social Process -- Definition of the Situation -- Definition of the Agency -- Definition of the Problem -- Eliciting the Client's Definition of the Situation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index.
New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2002