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Community and Human Services

Concepts for Practice

Karen Crinall, Lynda Berends

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ISBN:
9780190302917
Published:
14 Oct 2017
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Community and Human Services: Concepts for Practice introduces students to the key concepts, theories and perspectives of community and human services in Australia. It outlines the more challenging and emerging fields of practice to prepare students for practice in a range of helping professions.

Foreword (Sha Cordingly, ACWA President)

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

SECTION 1: Concepts and Change

1. Choice, Challenge and Change
Karen Crinall & Lynda Berends

2. Community and Human Services: Past and Presnt
Jane Miller, Jenny Martin & Linette Hawkins

3. Clients and Workers
Christina Sadowski & Stacey Ratcliffe

SECTION 2: Identities and Relationships

4. Key Actors and Stakeholders
Margaret Pack

5. Self and Others
Debra Manning & Karen Crinall

6. Families and Communities
Joanie Smith

SECTION 3: Practices and Settings

7. Engaging and Changing
MyFanwy Maple & Linda Turner

8. Organisations and Locations
Lynda Berends & Karen Crinall

9. Fields of Practice
Lynda Berends & Karen Crinall

SECTION 4: Knowledge, Culture and Action

10. Cultures and Beliefs
Tracie Mafile'o

11. Exploring, Explaining and Knowing
Karen Crinall & Lynda Berends

12. Acting and Responding
Jane Cowie

13. Concepts in Practice
Karen Crinall & Lynda Berends

Edited by Karen Crinall , Associate Dean, Research, School of Education and Arts, Federation University

Lynda Berends , Director, Trace Research

Karen Crinall is Associate Dean of Research in the School of Education and Arts, Federation University. Lynda Berends is Director, TRACE Research, Visiting Fellow of the University of New South Wales and President of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs.

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Chapter 6: Families and Communities