Developing Responsive Human Services - New Perspectives About Residential Treatment Organizations

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Contents: J. Thaw, Creating Future Responsive Residential Facilities: A Perspective on the Process of Applying Reform. R.D. MacNamara, Forces in the Administration of Residential Facilities. J. Thaw, S.F. Wolfe, The Direct-Care Worker: A Socio-Cultural Analysis. J. Thaw, E. Benjamin, A.J. Cuvo, The Professionals: Difficulties and Directions. A.J. Cuvo, J. Thaw, Mental Disability Law--The Politics of Human Rights. G.D. Thorne, J. Thaw, Policy and the Perspective of State Government. G.J. Allen, L. Heatherington, M. Lah, Human Aspects of Evaluation in Institutional Settings: Political, Methodological, and Social Trade-Offs.

About the author

Jack Thaw Mansfield Training School,Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation, and University of Connecticut.

Summary

First published in 1986. The authors and their contributing associates have spent most, in some cases all, of their professional years working both with mentally handicapped individuals and with the men and women who serve them in residential facilities. This book, at its core, is about the future of these people.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony J. Cuvo, Jack Thaw
• Assisted by: Anthony J. Cuvo (Editor), Cuvo Anthony J. (Editor), Jack Thaw (Editor), Thaw Jack (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1986
• EAN: 9780898596120
• ISBN: 978-0-89859-612-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: School Psychology Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Disability: social aspects