Addresses shift from deficit to empowerment model in work with families. Describes shift in human services "assistance" model from "doing to" to "doing with," from "power over" to "power with," and from "teaching the client" to "collaborative learning." Contends that new model will replace fragmented, deficit-oriented crisis intervention with…

Examines current trends in data collection and information use in human services organizations. Describes issues for managers who are planning information systems, including practitioner resistance to automation. Proposes that conceptual integration of agendas for human services automation, practice evaluation, and service effectiveness enables…

Contends that current counseling paradigms do not include necessary skills for effective results with Native American clients and suggests development of new paradigm for Native Americans. Presents overview of situation and discusses historical influences and current status of family, education, testing, career development, and suicide among…

Describes framework for stages of migration which helps workers obtain knowledge of needs, experiences, and circumstance of new immigrant groups and future newcomers. Notes that framework enables practitioners and organizations to examine relevance of previous immigrant group experiences and attendant service delivery patterns to current…

Describes Schein's three models of consultation based on assumptions inherent in different helping styles: purchase of expertise and doctor-patient models, which focus on content of organization problems; and process consultation model, which focuses on how organizational problems are solved. Notes that Schein has suggested that consultants begin…

Proposes advocacy role for social work in form of clinical activist model. Notes that, in this model, clinician's role is that of data gatherer and analyst, in addition to therapist. Sees client as centerpiece of change, revealing to clinician types of systemwide changes or reforms that are needed. Briefly discusses structural changes necessary to…

Examines cross-cultural counseling (especially Western counselor-Eastern client) within a transpersonal psychological framework. Presents meta-model that allows counselors to adopt attitudes that transcend cultural differences. Notes that benefit of such a model to counselors would be superordinate framework in which various, specific counseling…

Provides overview of case management, its history, and contemporary models. Examines challenges that case management poses for social work profession: covering up issue that health and human services delivery system is nonsystem; maintaining client-centered perspective in cost-obsessed environment; dealing with quality control; coping with…

Describes the developmental stages of the Minority Identity Development Model and suggests its use in understanding minority client attitudes, values, and behavior. (Author)

Outlines current state of victim services field, identifies eight consensus prescriptions for future development, and proposes Cube Model as an integrating conceptual framework. Describes three representative victim service agencies to illustrate model's usefulness. Challenges counseling psychologists to develop broadly based services necessary…

Presents the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Psychosocial Counseling Model which organizes into five phases the major psychosocial issues encountered by homosexual and bisexual clients with AIDS: (1) overcoming the initial fear of AIDS; (2) redefining relationships; (3) modifying lifestyles; (4) re-evaluating life's meaning; and (5)…

Discusses four treatment models with reference to working with resistance in art therapy: drive psychology, object relations theory, self-psychology, and ego psychology. Notes that each model imagines resistance in its own way. Considers working with these four models of treatment (art diagnosis, therapeutic interventions, and…

Notes that since 1970, Volunteer Counseling Service of Rockland County, New York, has pioneered innovative use of community laypeople to do high-level counseling for clients with wide range of serious social problems. Gives the history and an overview of the mechanics and model of work that have made this agency feasible. (Author/NB)

Critiques problem-focused perspective, different diagnostic approaches, and objectivity-subjectivity dilemma as they apply to respecting client uniqueness. Social work practice is cast within reflective model advanced by Schon. Argues that this approach bolsters social work practitioner's ability to incorporate uniqueness in work with clients by…

Presents developmental therapy as supplement to life span theory which can provide specific suggestions for clinical-counseling interventions that may be used to assess developmental level of clients, select counseling skills and theory to match client cognitive-developmental level, and obtain feedback on intervention effectiveness. Discusses…