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| Human Services as a Profession | |
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| Introduction to the Human Services Profession: Purpose, Preparation, Practice and Theoretical Orientations | |
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| The Many Types of Human Service Professionals | |
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| Why is Human Services Needed? | |
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| Human Service Education and Licensure | |
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| Duties and Functions of a Human Service Professional | |
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| How Do Human Service Professionals Practice? | |
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| Theoretical Frameworks used in Human Services | |
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| Bronfenbenner's Ecological Systems Theory | |
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| PIE ��� Person in Environment | |
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| Eco-systems Theory | |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | |
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| Understanding Human Services through a Look at Practice Settings | |
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| History and Evolution of Social Welfare Policy in the Human Services Profession | |
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| The Feudal System of the Middle Ages | |
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| Poor Laws of England | |
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| The Elizabethan Poor Laws | |
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| Protestant Reformation and Social Darwinism | |
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| Charity Organization Societies | |
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| Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement | |
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| The New Deal and the Social Security Act of 1935 | |
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| Influences of African American Social Workers | |
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| Welfare Reform and the Emergence of Neoliberal Economic Policies | |
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| A Time for Change: the Election of the First African American President | |
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| Professional Ethics and Values in Human Services | |
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| Moral, But by Whose Standards? | |
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| Ethical Values vs. Emotional Desires: "I Know It Was Wrong, But We Were in Love!" | |
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| When Our Values Collide: "I Value Honesty, But What If Lives Are at Stake?" | |
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| The Development of Moral Reasoning | |
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| Developing a Professional Code of Ethics | |
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| Resolving Ethical Dilemmas | |
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| Cultural Influences on the Perception of Ethical Behavior | |
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| Ethical Standards in Human Services and Related Fields | |
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| Closing Thoughts on Professional Ethics | |
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| Generalist Practice and the Role of the Human Service Professional | |
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| Skills and Intervention Strategies for Generalist Practice | |
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| Informed Consent and Confidentiality | |
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| The Limits of Confidentiality | |
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| Skills and Competencies | |
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| Sympathy and Empathy | |
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| Boundary Setting | |
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| The Hallmarks of Personal Growth | |
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| The Clinical Assessment | |
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| Patience | |
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| Active Listening Skills | |
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| Observation Skills | |
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| Family Genograms | |
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| Psychological Testing | |
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| Clinical Diagnoses | |
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| Criticisms of the DSM-IV-TR | |
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| Continuum of Mental Health | |
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| Case Management and Counseling | |
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| Basic Counseling Techniques for Generalist Practice | |
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| Task-Centered Casework | |
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| Perceptual Reframing, Emotional Regulation, Networking and Advocacy | |
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| Cultural Competence and Diversity | |
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| Child Welfare Services | |
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| Overview and Purpose of Child Welfare Agencies | |
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| The History of the Foster Care System in the United States | |
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| The U.S. Orphan Problem | |
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| The Orphan Asylum | |
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| The Seeds of Foster Care: the Orphan Trains | |
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| Overview of the Current U.S. Child Welfare System | |
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| Getting into the System | |
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| Child Abuse Investigations | |
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| Mandated Reporters | |
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| Sequence of Events in the Reporting and Investigation of Child Abuse | |
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| Types of Child Maltreatment | |
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| The Forensic Interview | |
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| To Intervene, or Not Intervene: Models for Decision Making | |
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| Working with Children in Placement | |
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| Permanency Plans | |
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| Working with Biological Families | |
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| Biological Parents and their Children: Maintaining the Connection | |
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| Working with Foster Children: Common Clinical Issues | |
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| Separation | |
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| Loss, Grief and Mourning | |
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| Identity Issues | |
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| Continuity of Family Ties | |
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| Crisis | |
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| Working with Foster Parents | |
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| Reunification | |
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| Family Preservation | |
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| Ethnic Minority Populations and Multicultural Considerations | |
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| Placing Children of Color in Caucasian Homes | |
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| Native Americans and the U.S. Child Welfare System | |
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| Adoption Services | |
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| Adolescent Services | |
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| Adolescence: A New Stage of Development? | |
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| Developmental Perspectives | |
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| Common Clinical Issues and the Role of the Human Service Professional | |
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| Abstract Reasoning: A Dangerous Weapon in the Hands of an Adolescent | |
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| Adolescent Rebellion | |
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| Externalizing Behaviors | |
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| Internalizing Behaviors | |
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| Eating Disorders in the Adolescent Population | |
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| Schizophrenia in the Adolescent Population | |
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| Other Clinical Issues Affecting the Adolescent Population | |
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| Practice Settings Specific to Adolescent Treatment | |
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| Multicultural Considerations | |
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| Aging and Services for the Elderly | |
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| The Aging of America: Changing Demographics | |
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| Old and Old-Old: A Developmental Perspective | |
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| Successful Aging | |
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| Current Issues Impacting the Elderly and the Role of the Human Service Professional | |
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| Ageism | |
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| Housing | |
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| Homelessness and the Elderly Population | |
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| Adjustment to Retirement | |
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| Grandparents Parenting | |
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| Depression | |
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| Dementia | |
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| Elder Abuse | |
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| Practice Settings Serving the Elderly | |
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| Special Populations | |
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| Mental Health and Mental Illness | |
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| The History of Mental Illness: Perceptions and Treatment | |
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| The Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill | |
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| Common Mental Illnesses and Clinical Issues | |
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| Serious Mental Disorders Diagnosed on Axis I | |
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| Psychotic Disorders | |
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| Affective Disorders | |
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| Serious Mental Disorders Diagnosed on Axis II | |
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| Mental Health Practice Settings and Counseling Interventions | |
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| Intervention Strategies | |
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| Common Practice Settings | |
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| Mental Illness and Special Populations | |
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| Mental Illness and the Homeless Population | |
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| Mental Illness and the Prison Population: the Criminalization of the Mentally Ill | |
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| Mental Health Courts | |
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| Multicultural Considerations | |
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| Current Legislation Affecting Access to Mental Health Services | |
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| Mental Health Parity | |
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| Other Federal Legislation | |
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| Homelessness | |
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| The Nature of Homelessness: A Snapshot of Homelessness in America | |
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| The Causes of Homelessness | |
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| History of Homelessness in the United States | |
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| The Contemporary Picture of Homelessness: the Rise of Single Parent Families | |
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| Homeless Shelter Living for Families with Children | |
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| Homeless Children: School Attendance and Academic Performance | |
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| Runaway Youth | |
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| Single Men, the Mentally Ill and Substance Abuse | |
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| The Elderly Homeless | |
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| Current Policies and Legislation | |
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| The Role of the Human Service Professional: Working with the Homeless Population: Common Clinical Issues | |
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| Common Practice Settings for Working with the Homeless Population | |
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| Healthcare and Hospice | |
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| Human Services in Hospitals | |
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| Crisis and Trauma Counseling | |
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| Working with Patients with HIV/AIDS | |
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| The Hospice Movement | |
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| The History of Hospice: the Neglect of the Dying | |
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| The Hospice Philosophy | |
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| The Hospice Team | |
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| The Role of the Hospice Human Services Worker | |
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| The Psychosocial Assessment | |
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| Intervention Strategies | |
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| Case Management and Counseling Services | |
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| Resisting the Reality of the Death | |
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| Planning for the Death | |
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| The Spiritual Component of Dying | |
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| Death and Dying: Effective Bereavement Counseling | |
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| The Journey Through Grief: A Task-Centered Approach | |
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| Multicultural Issues | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas in Hospice Care | |
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| Substance Abuse and Treatment | |
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| History of the Substance Abuse Practice Setting | |
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| History of Use and Early Treatment Efforts within the United States | |
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| The Prohibition Movement | |
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| The Rise of Modern Addiction Treatment in the United States | |
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| Demographics, Prevalence, and Usage Patterns | |
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| Defining Terms and Concepts | |
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| Theoretical Models of Use and Abuse | |
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| Types of Substances Abused | |
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| Abuse of Prescription Drugs | |
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| The Presence of Substance Abuse Across All Practice Settings | |
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| Acceptance of Problem | |
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| Hitting Bottom | |
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| Clinical Interventions | |
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| Motivational Interviewing | |
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| Cultural Sensitivity | |
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| Defining Treatment Goals | |
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| Abstinence | |
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| Harm Reduction | |
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| Mode of Service Delivery | |
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| Availability of Treatment | |
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| Public Programs | |
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| Private Programs | |
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| Continuum of Care | |
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| Treatment Modalities | |
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| The Role of the Human Services Professional | |
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| Stages of Recovery | |
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| Relapse Prevention | |
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| Common Treatment Settings | |
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| Detoxification Programs | |
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| In-Patient Treatment Programs | |
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| Partial Hospitalization Programs | |
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| Residential Treatment Programs | |
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| Out-Patient Treatment | |
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| Pharmacological Treatments | |
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| Self-Help | |
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| Family Involvement | |
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| Human Services in the Schools | |
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| School Social Work | |
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| The School Social Work Model | |
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| School Social Work Roles, Functions, and Core Competencies | |
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| School Counseling | |
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| Historical Roots of School Counseling | |
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| School Counselors: Professional Identity | |
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| The Urban Problem | |
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| Common Roles and Functions of School Counselors | |
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| School Psychologists | |
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| Common Clinical Issues and Effective Responses by Human Services Personnel | |
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| Depression and other Mental Health Concerns | |
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| Diversity and Race | |
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| Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Youth | |
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| The Terrorism Threat and U.S. During Wartime | |
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| Substance Abuse | |
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| Child Abuse and Neglect | |
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| Teenage Pregnancy | |
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| ADD and ADHD | |
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| Faith-Based Agencies | |
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| Faith-Based versus Secular Organizations | |
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| Federal Funding of Faith-Based Human Service Agencies | |
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| Methods of Practice in Faith-Based Agencies | |
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| The Benefits of Faith-Based Services | |
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| Religious Diversity in Faith-Based Organizations | |
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| Faith-Based Agencies: Services and Intervention Strategies | |
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| Jewish Human Services: Agencies and the Role of the Human Services Professional | |
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| United Jewish Communities: the Federations of North America | |
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| Association of Jewish Family Services and Children's Agencies | |
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| Christian Human Services: Agencies and the Role of the Human Services Professional | |
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| Rural Communities and the Black Church | |
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| Catholic Charities | |
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| Prison Fellowship Ministries | |
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| Teen Challenge | |
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| Islamic Human Services: Agencies and the Role of the Human Services Professional | |
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| Islamic Social Services Association | |
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| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | |
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| Muslim Family Services | |
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| Violence, Victim Advocacy and Corrections | |
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| Domestic Violence | |
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| The Nature of Domestic Violence: the Cycle of Violence | |
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| Counseling Victims of Domestic Violence | |
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| Whose Fault is it Anyway? Attributing Causality of Abuse in the Relationship | |
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| Does She Stay or Does She Go? | |
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| Domestic Violence Practice Settings | |
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| The Prosecution of Domestic Violence | |
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| Batterers Programs | |
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| Sexual Assault | |
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| Why People Commit Rape | |
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| The Psychological Impact of Sexual Assault | |
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| Male-on-Male Sexual Assault | |
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| Common Practice Settings: Rape Crisis Centers | |
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| Victims of Violent Crime | |
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| The Victims' Bill of Rights | |
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| Victim-Witness Assistance | |
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| Surviving Victims of Homicide | |
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| Common Clinical Issues when Working with Victims of All Violent Crime | |
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| Perpetrators of Crime | |
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| Gang Activity | |
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| Risk-factors of Gang Involvement | |
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| Human Services Practice Settings Focusing on Gang Involvement | |
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| Human Services in Prison Settings | |
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| The War on Drugs | |
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| Clinical Issues in the Prison Population: the Role of the Human Services Professional | |
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| Mental Health Programs in Correctional Facilities | |
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| Prison and Pregnancy | |
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| STDs and AIDS | |
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| Barriers to Treatment | |
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| Macro Practice, International Human Services and Future Considerations | |
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| Macro Practice and International Human Services | |
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| Why Macro Practice? | |
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| Vulnerable and Oppressed Populations | |
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| Mobilizing for Change: Shared Goals of Effective Macro Practice Techniques | |
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| Common Aspects of Macro Practice | |
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| Community Development | |
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| Community Organizing | |
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| Policy Practice | |
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| The Global Community: International Human Services | |
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| HIV/AIDS Pandemic | |
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| Crimes Against Women and Children | |
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| Female Genital Mutilation | |
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| Human Sex Trafficking | |
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| Street Children | |
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| Child Labor and Economic Injustice | |
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| Indigenous People | |
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| Refugees | |
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| Torture and Abuse | |
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| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Rights | |
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| Macro Practice in Action | |
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| EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF HUMAN SERVICES | |
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| Avoiding Professional Burn-out | |
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| Human Services and Technology | |
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| The Effect of the Economic Crisis and a New Presidential Administration on Human Service Practice | |