This book provides students and practitioners with a theoretical and methodological foundation for implementing client- and family-centered `partnership' approaches in human services. Unlike other texts in the field, the author integrates the principles and practices of sociology with applied work in the helping professions and shows how key sociological concepts can be used to explain the nature of clients' perspectives and expand client opportunities.

Inhalt
Background and Theoretical Foundations.- The Partnership Approach.- Changing Practices in Human Services.- Theoretical Foundations I.- Theoretical Foundations II.- The Client's Social World and Methods for Discovering It.- The Social World of the Service User.- Identification Techniques I.- Identification Techniques II.- Identification Techniques III.- Models of Intervention and Evaluation.- Linking Identification and Intervention.- Social Change, Social Problems, and the Limits of Intervention.- Service Evaluation.