Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Education

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Make the most of your human services training or practice with these electronic tools! Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Education shows how technology can help practitioners, educators, organizations, and agencies to overcome obstacles, develop problem-solving skills in adults and children, and resolve fear/anxiety issues. It also illustrates how the right software can... Read more

Make the most of your human services training or practice with these electronic tools!

Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Education shows how technology can help practitioners, educators, organizations, and agencies to overcome obstacles, develop problem-solving skills in adults and children, and resolve fear/anxiety issues. It also illustrates how the right software can make a profound difference in the learning experience by transforming students from passive consumers to proactive information hunters.

The first half of this vital book highlights well-designed, user-friendly, practice-focused software for use with children and youth, including Funny Face, Bruce's Multimedia Story, Say No With Donny, Talking it Out, and more. These can be used in play therapy, as a child welfare aid, as an educative/preventative intervention for a variety of issues, and for problem solving in school. This half of the book continues with six chapters discussing software designed for human services professionals working with adults. These include interactive video conferencing, online support for job stress, a computer-aided art therapy program, telephone counseling, an electronically supported way to conduct staff meetings, and more.

The second half of Human Services Technology discusses software used for training counselors. These programs monitor users’understanding of the material, provide feedback, allow users to decide what direction their studies would move in, and make provision for students to determine their own pace.

This vital book shows how technology can help practitioners, educators, organizations, and agencies to:

deliver effective services to clients who cannot or will not come to face-to-face sessions
use electronic games and simulations to develop problem-solving skills in children and adults
use virtual environments and realistic stimuli to resolve issues of fear and anxiety
make prevention information easily available to more people than ever before
and much more!

Describing and illustrating software developed and tested in the United States, Australia, Canada, Israel, Finland, and the United Kingdom, Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Education is essential for every human services reference shelf!

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Preface
Introduction
TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Introduction to Technology for Social Work Practice
YOUTH
?Funny Face?: Shareware for Child Counseling and Play Therapy
Interactive Media for Child Care and Counseling: New Resources, New Opportunities
Computer Integrated Drug Prevention?Combining Multi-Media and Social Group Work Practice to Teach Inner City Israeli 6th Graders How to Say No to Drugs
?Talking It Out?: A Computer-Based Mediation Process for Adolescents
Clients as Co-Developers of Multimedia Software: Two HIV/AIDS Training Programs for Kids
ADULTS
An Online Stress Management Support Group for Social Workers
Risk Management in Online Services Practice
Computer-Supported Distance Art Therapy: A Focus on Traumatic Illness
Electronic Technology for Social Work Education and Practice: The Application of Telephone Technology to Counseling
Videoconferencing in Telepsychiatry
Applying Group Support Systems in Social Work Education and Practice
TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
Introduction: Technology in Education
WEB-BASED COURSES
COW: Conferencing on the Web
Facilitating Interactions Among Students and Faculty via Web-Based Conferencing Systems
DISTANCE LEARNING
Connecting Aboriginal Learners in Remote Communities: An Online Social Work Course
High Tech and High Touch: The Human Face of Online Education
CD-ROM/VIDEODISC
Counseling Simulations: An Interactive CD-ROM Approach
Better Listening: Paraphrasing and Perception Checking?A Study of the Effectiveness of a Multimedia Skills Training Program
Multimedia Interactive Training Development?Journey: Discovering Social Services CD-ROM
The Development of a Multimedia Training Project: Rewards and Challenges of the Multidisciplinary Team
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Biography

Hy Resnick, Phoebe Sade Anderson

Human Services Technology Innovations in Practice and Education

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