Fundamentals Of Case Management

This text/workbook is a step-by-step guide through the case management process, from intake and assessment to referrals and termination. The 4th edition focuses on what is most important for students to consider, document, and pass along in each step of the human services process. Chapters walk through each step of the case management process, while realistic exercises drawn from active professionals expose students to a broad range of true-to-life circumstances and difficulties.

Features a step-by-step guide through the case management process, from intake and assessment to referrals and termination. This book focuses on what is most important for readers to consider, document, and pass along in each step of the human services process.

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Written for case managers working in health and human services, this practical guide addresses the need for more progressive and compassionate ways of working with others. Introducing innovative strategies for working with people that challenge the status quo, the book reconsiders old forms of social casework in favour of empowerment approaches that incorporate individual systemic advocacy. Patricia Spindel covers the history of case management, traditional approaches and their critiques, barriers to an empowerment approach, the ethical issues of labelling, stereotyping, stigmatization and pathologizing, and key empowerment philosophies and the research that supports them. This guide provides concrete methods that will help readers put principles of empowerment philosophy into practice. With practical case studies and questions for reflection featured throughout the chapters, it is well suited for human services, social services, and social work programs in colleges and universities in Canada. FEATURES: - Offers a practical "how to" for developing an empowerment plan and deals with common issues in practice, such as projection, countertransference, and transference - Includes core concepts of empowerment and methodology for building individual and community capacity and competence - Provides students with case studies from the field and questions to encourage reflection

Guide your students from the classroom to success in today's social service setting with the step-by-step practical skills found in this outstanding case management text/workbook. Summers' FUNDAMENTALS OF CASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE: SKILLS FOR THE HUMAN SERVICES, 3e, International Edition, focuses on what's most important for students to consider, document, and pass along within each step of the human service process. Students leave your course equipped with the basic skills and abilities to make good decisions and contribute to meaningful discussions in a professional setting. Text chapters walk through each step of the case management process--from intake through termination. This edition addresses additional diversity issues with more examples and practice scenarios. Numerous realistic exercises, drawn from the author's more than 20 years of experience and from the first-hand experiences of other active professionals, expose your students to a broad range of realistic circumstances and difficulties. Actual agency forms throughout the text/workbook give your students frequent opportunities to compile and work with information as they manage cases and prepare client files.This textbook will remain a useful reference for your students well after the classroom experience. For additional support and reference, the author's FUNDAMENTALS FOR PRACTICE WITH HIGH RISK POPULATIONS contains information on specific high risk populations, such as survivors of rape and violence, those with drug and alcohol dependence, individuals with mental illness, and more. Together, these texts empower your students to move competently into a professional setting.

"Management Is for Everyone" The world of business affects our lives every day, and "management" will affect the lives of all of us who work for a living. Fundamentals of Management, Eighth Canadian Edition delivers a text, supplemental materials, and online learning package that will engage students in a positive and direct manner as they build their fundamental knowledge of business in general and management in particular. In addition to viewing the material from the student perspective, our authors strove to facilitate the instructor's use and application of the rich subject material and resources to provide a dynamic, interactive, and enjoyable classroom experience. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyManagementLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyManagementLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyManagementLab, search for: 0134283597 / 9780134283593 Fundamentals of Management, Eighth Canadian Edition Plus MyManagementLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 8/e Package consists of: 0133856747 / 9780133856743 Fundamentals of Management, Eighth Canadian Edition 0134270517 / 9780134270517 MyManagementLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for Fundamentals of Management, Eighth Canadian Edition

This book on case management practice guides the reader step-by-step through the case management process. It provides practice for meeting clients, documenting initial inquiries, using DSV IV, developing a service plan, monitoring service and documenting the process, and much more.