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Contemporary demands for accountablility from funding sources has focused attention on outcome evaluation in the field of human services. This text seeks to redress the balance, discussing comparative issues in practice, with the emphasis on learning from outcome research.

Helps readers identify and then discard 52 misconceptions about data and statistical summaries. The author's discussion of each misconception has five parts which include: the misconception - a brief description of the misunderstanding; evidence that the misconception exists; why the misconception is dangerous; and undoing the misconception.

Offers practical suggestions and helpful examples to illustrate the interventions, and also provides a quick reference for professionals facing the aftermath of prospective terrorist disasters. This book is divided into four sections. It is useful for social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, health professionals, educators, and students.

Offers insight and ideas for practicing family therapists in such essential areas as - negotiating flexible, appropriate boundaries between family members and between yourself and your clients; constructing ecomaps of a client's support systems and stressors; and, encouraging clients to set realistic, achievable goals.

Written for the purpose of teaching fundraising academically, this book integrates practical knowledge with social science and research, and views all aspects, from legal and ethical principles to the managerial process. It aims to fill the gap for a textbook on fundraising as an academic subject.

This title's purpose is to extend and consolidate the evolving literature on multinational teams by developing a comprehensive theory that incorporates a dynamic, multilevel view of such teams. The model used by the authors focuses on various features of the team's members.

Young people become empowered by their participation in the institutions and decisions that affect their lives - which in turn can lead to real positive change in the community. This book presents leading authorities providing the research and effective approaches on how young people can be drawn to participate in organizations and communities.

This book discusses changing perspectives on peace and political stability in Europe since the end of the Cold War, in both 'hard' and 'soft' security terms.

Combines rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management. This title illustrates how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and details the essentials of knowledge management practices that also illustrate the need for intelligently conceived databases in organizations.

Addresses the topics of the psychology of deceptive persuasion in the marketplace and consumer self-protection. This book provides chapters that cover theoretical perspectives on deceptive persuasion; different types of deception tactics; how deception-minded marketers think; and, the nature of marketplace deception protection skills.

In our culture, many people feel the need to split the personal from their professional lives in order to maintain proper boundaries, and the private from the public in order to gain the acceptance of others. This book provides the opportunity for readers to find a deeper connection with themselves and others.

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of emotional abuse, volume 7, number 3 2007."

A practical, 'how-to' guide for the supervision of case managers, personal care providers, and interns working in community services and long-term care of ill or disabled older persons. It offers ideas and proven 'practice wisdom' for handling many of the field's most common problems.

A nontechnical guide to the management of computer and Internet applications by human service professionals. It discusses networking and telecommunication, data storage and management, decision-making theories underlying computer applications

Offers the essential strategies social work researchers, other social scientists in the area of disaster research, and emergency management personnel need to prepare for and recover from all forms of disaster. Focusing on hazard, risk, and disaster research, this book presents conceptual approaches in this important area of social work.

An introduction to both the theory and practice of Sufism (Islamic mysticism), offering many insights into traditional Muslim society. This translation is fully annotated for readers unfamiliar with the author Ghazzali and includes an introduction to his life and historical milieu.

Offers cognitive information grounded in the empirical findings of social science, as well as experiential material which encourages the counselors' own spiritual quest. This source clarifies the interface between the counselor's spirituality and the client's, and allows the spiritual dimension to emerge appropriately in the counseling process.

Examines the phenomenon of unbecoming a mother - the process of coming to live apart from biological children - within the social and historical context of parenting in Australia, Canada, Britain, and the United States with critical observations from social workers, poloicymakers, and historians.