Handbook of the social services / [electronic resource] edited by Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Introduction / Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht -- Information and referral services / Risha W. Levinson -- Homemaker-home health aide services / Hadley Dale Hall -- Daycare services / Carole Joffe -- Recreation and leisure services / H. Douglas Sessoms -- Family services / Patrick V. Riley -- Services to the elderly / Charlane Brown and Mary O'Day -- Child welfare services / John A. Brown and Al Swanson -- Community mental health / Steven P. Segal -- Vocational rehabilitation : services for disabled persons / Richard E. Hardy, James S. Peters, and John G. Cull -- Alcohol and drug abuse services / H. Leonard Boche -- Social services for selected oppressed groups / Barbara Shore -- Social services in schools / Richard J. Anderson and Mary Ann Powell Howard -- Social services and criminal justice / Burt Galaway --

Social services in the field of housing and the physical environment / Elizabeth D. Huttman -- Social services in medical care systems / Neil F. Bracht -- Social services in business and industry / Lou Ann B. Jorgensen -- Income maintenance programs / Martha N. Ozawa -- Financing social welfare services / Paul Terrell -- Generalist social work practice / Howard Goldstein -- Social casework / Helen Harris Perlman -- Social group work / Charles Garvin -- Community organization and community development / John L. Erlich and Felix G. Rivera -- Behavior modification approaches / Eileen Gambrill -- Social work practice in a sexually evolving society / Harvey L. Gochros and Dale Kunkel -- New and emerging methods of direct practice : the revolution in social work / Joel Fischer -- The utilization of research in social work practice / Aaron Rosenblatt --

Social welfare administration / Rino Patti -- The practice of social planning / Armand Lauffer -- Research and evaluation : contribution to social work practice / Robert Moroney and Charles Taylor Grubb -- Knowledge for practice / Martin Rein and Sheldon White -- Professional development : supervision, training, and education / Alfred Kadushin -- The profession, professional organizations, licensing and private practice / David Hardcastle.

Also issued online.