The Human Services Delivery System: Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Social Welfare, Education, Health Services / Edition 1

by S. Sauber, Harold Vetter, Harold Weissman, Mario Fantini, F. Douglas Scutchfield

Overview

The Human Services Delivery System is a comprehensive textbook that provides integrated theoretical and practical coverage of each of the five major systems of human services. Featuring a nationally known expert on each service:

S. Richard Sauber on the mental health system

Harold J. Vetter on the criminal justice system

Harold H. Weissman on the social welfare system

Mario D. Fantini on the education system

F. Douglas Scutchfield on the health care system

Sauber also offers a coherent "general systems theory" perspective that clarifies the problems of relationships, structures, and interdependencies of dynamic systems -as well as chapters on self-help approaches, service integration, planning, coordinating, and program evaluation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231043144
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/19/1983
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

S. Richard Sauber is associate professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia and Brown Universities.

Table of Contents

1. Foreword, by Daniel R. Panitz
2. Introduction to Human Services
3. Human Services and General Systems Theory
4. The Mental Health System
5. The Administration of Criminal Justice, by Harold J. Vetter
6. The Social Welfare System, by Harold H. Weissman
7. Education as a Human Service, by Mario D. Fantini
8. Health Services, by F. Douglas Scutchfield
9. The Mutual-Help Movement