Fundamentals of Case Management Practice: Skills for the Human Services - Softcover

Summers, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534511678 ISBN 13: 9780534511678

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2005

Synopsis

This practical, "how-to" workbook is designed to prepare students to walk away from the classroom into a social service setting and be able to function competently in the most basic skills, decisions, and discussions. Nancy Summers presents a step-by-step case management procedure that takes students from intake to termination by providing clear directions for each step in the process, practical "how to" tips, and using practice scenarios taken from real case management situations. The workbook includes actual agency forms providing students with the opportunity to practice using forms similar to those they will use in agencies.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Summers is a professor at Harrisburg Area Community College, where she has served as department chair. Summers was the director of public education for a mental health system and has worked with numerous agencies to provide training, improve services, and assist with an internal reorganization. She remains actively in touch with numerous professionals in a wide variety of programs and recently published work on the supervision of the less experienced human services worker.

Review:

"I adopted this text ... because it helps teach practical skills; it presents opportunity for interactive learning and it uses so many examples to help students understand the context for skill development."

"I love the workbook format. The ethics exercises, hypothetical client needs exercises. The practice exercises for every chapter, and the forms in the appendices are all wonderful. This text has improved my case management class a thousand-fold."

"Strengths: accessible, relevant, practical, useful, interesting, interactive, covers everything necessary for a case manager to know to start work. The exercises at the end of each chapter are absolutely terrific and make the material so interactive. This is the best text out there for case management."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0534511678
• ISBN 13: 9780534511678
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 398