Suggests what to look for when choosing a facility, how to monitor the care offered, and the kinds of supervision and services that should be available. This book offers illustrates activities that contribute to total mental and physical well-being. It also includes appendices that feature important facts about retirement facilities.
With increasing numbers of elderly people in our society, the importance of issues of health, illness, disability and health services for the elderly looms ever larger. The research literature has correspondingly expanded to examine these issues. In this volume, leading researchers in social gerontology present the current state of knowledge about health and ageing. Topics covered range from conceptual and measurement issues, to social factors in health and illness, to use of services, financing of health care, caregiving and medical consumerism amongst the elderly.
This volume focuses on the immediate and short term psychosocial needs of crime victims and on specific services and treatment programmes developed to meet their requirements. It discusses victim compensation, family violence intervention programmes and victim-witness assistance programmes. The text then reports on the first systematic study of the organizational structure and functions of 184 victim service and witness assistance programmes. The book concludes by examining programmes designed to improve service delivery and lessen the trauma experienced by victims of violent crimes, including rape, domestic violence and robbery.
Evaluation Resources for Practitioners and Policymakers
Written primarily for evaluators and administrators who are involved in analyzing family services, this book examines the issues related to describing and evaluating social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact, rather than those programmes that emphasize removing the child from the family setting. The text offers an in-depth discussion of programme features that are important for conducting an evaluation, including programme descriptions, target populations, client outcomes, cost analysis and evaluation design. Each chapter raises issues which are pertinent to designing a comprehensive or a special focus study, including detailed descriptions of programme components. Grounded in the basic everyday experiences of public and private agencies undertaking evaluation activities, this text is appropriate for evaluators, policy makers and other advocates of children.
Evaluation Resources for Practitioners and Policymakers
Written primarily for evaluators and administrators who are involved in analyzing family services, this book examines the issues related to describing and evaluating social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact, rather than those programmes that emphasize removing the child from the family setting. The text offers an in-depth discussion of programme features that are important for conducting an evaluation, including programme descriptions, target populations, client outcomes, cost analysis and evaluation design. Each chapter raises issues which are pertinent to designing a comprehensive or a special focus study, including detailed descriptions of programme components. Grounded in the basic everyday experiences of public and private agencies undertaking evaluation activities, this text is appropriate for evaluators, policy makers and other advocates of children.
Rejects the pabulum of more laws, more money, more enforcement personnel, and more jails as the road to victory in the 'war on drugs'. This work documents the failure of the drug war and the erroneous premise central to its destructive and doomed strategy: the idea that drug taking controls human behaviour; that drugs 'cause' physical dependency.
"One Road to Peace" is designed as a practice guide to lead the counsellor working with men who are violent towards their partners through the specifics of the counselling process. The authors instruct the reader in particular clinical skills, strategies and programme content, present a group treatment programme as the treatment of choice, describe individual assessment and counselling, examine current theory and research and identify the most salient factors in understanding men who assault their partners. Preparatory work, such as assessment prior to entering a programme, is explained in detail; crisis intervention work is examined. After a focus on group therapy and a detailed treatment manual, the authors explore the personal and interpersonal effects of working with violent men.
This volume emphasizes the conceptualization and use of measurement concepts and principles in relationship to decisions routinely made in various phases of direct practice - assessment, planning interventions, implementing intervention, and termination and follow-up. The authors describe measurement concepts and research tools providing frequent case examples to demonstrate how measurement can facilitate case planning and decision making. More specifically, they show how practitioners can utilize measurement techniques to help determine client eligibility, to assess client functioning and problems, to determine intervention plans and goals and maintain the extent to which they are implemented, and to estimate the degree of client progress and the extent to which that progress is maintained.
"One Road to Peace" is designed as a practice guide to lead the counsellor working with men who are violent towards their partners through the specifics of the counselling process. The authors instruct the reader in particular clinical skills, strategies and programme content, present a group treatment programme as the treatment of choice, describe individual assessment and counselling, examine current theory and research and identify the most salient factors in understanding men who assault their partners. Preparatory work, such as assessment prior to entering a programme, is explained in detail; crisis intervention work is examined. After a focus on group therapy and a detailed treatment manual, the authors explore the personal and interpersonal effects of working with violent men.
