Fundamentals of Case Management Practice: Skills for the Human Services

by Nancy Summers

Book Overview

This book/workbook is a step-by-step guide through the case management process, from intake and assessment to referrals and termination. The fifth edition focuses on what is most important for readers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534511678
• ISBN13: 9780534511678
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Case Management Text

As a former clinician I find the book realistic and one that I wish I had used when I obtained my MSW. There are some shorter books that are very good but none with the depth and breadth of this particular work. I use this book for half of a semester in conjunction with another text that covers psychotropic medication so it has to have some staying power. I used the previous edition and continue with this edition which has improved teaching aides. The PowerPoints are actually usable as is the test bank and that is most certainly not always the case. As a matter of fact most of the PowerPoint resources that I have used that came with other text books were literally unusable. I use this book at Columbia College where I teach a Case Management Class in our Human Services program and it is perhaps the most realistic and down to earth text I use. One quirk, not a flaw but something to be aware of, is that there has been no attempt to make the chapters the same length. That is a normal practice for most test books so you would cover one chapter a week - or something like that. But, the chapters in this book run from ones that are fairly lengthy to ones that are very short.

Satisfaction guaranteed

This textbook was exactly like the description. It arrived in a timely manner according to the specified time for shipping. It looked new and in very good condition. The only problem that I had was that the description of the book didn't include the edition, so when I received it, I noticed that it wasn't the edition that I needed. I have since ordered the older edition and returned the newer one. HOpefully I won't have any problems with the refund of my money. Thanks KK in Houston

Became my Case Management bible.......

This is a text you will use day in a day out--never give it away, you will be sorry. I love the text's format. The ethics exercises, hypothetical client needs exercises, practice exercises for every chapter, and forms in the appendix are all fantastic/brilliant. This is a must need tool for case management.

Great Book!

I really liked this book as it is very easy to read and understand. I found it to be very informative, educational, and a must read for anyone working within the human services field.

Great Sourcebook for Teachers

This particular item is an excellent overview of case management practice for beginning and experienced case managers alike. Every aspect of case management practice from definitions to professional boundary issues and ethics to listening skills is covered. While this volume handles each topic in depth, the writing is straight-forward and no-nonsense. This combination makes the information necessary for a thourough discussion on the topic very accessible even to the novice. Chapter 1 entitled "Ethics and Other Professional Responsibilitities for Human Services Workers" provides a strong base for the subsequent discussions which follow. Chapters 6 and & 7, "Seeing Yourself as a Separate Person" and "Clarifying Who Owns the Problem", flush out issues which need to be addressed in today's expanding market of paraprofessional services.This book is a good resource for the shelves of those already working as case managers and a great text for students preparing themselves for work in the field of human services.