This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in assessing desired outcomes, current status, and needs of program clients as well as skills to assess the environmental conditions that influence those needs. The module is one of a series of competency-based guidance program…

This module on an integrative seminar in human service is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. A total of eight objectives are included to help students integrate previously learned knowledge and skills into a process of assessing service need, developing treatment…

This module on interviewing and influencing skills is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. Focus is on concepts and skills basic to competency in interpersonal relationships involving information gathering, recording information in the context of appropriate…

This participant's manual is part of a set of training materials developed to help vocational rehabilitation workers improve their basic helping skills. It is intended to facilitate note taking and retention of information and to increase active responding of trainees. Introductory materials include a pretest and a summary of the interpersonal…

This module on human relations skills is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. Focus is on developing rapport and knowledge of self as a human service provider in order to develop effective interpersonal relations. Following notes on the target population (human…

Based on two manuals developed by Goodwill as part of their staff training series on program review, this program evaluation manual is designed to help facility administrators implement and improve their service delivery. The book contains an introduction and nine chapters. The introduction defines program evaluation, provides a rationale and uses…

This module on psychosocial assessment is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. A total of six objectives are included to help students utilize knowledge of psychosocial principles which influence human behavior in order to assess alternatives to meet the objectives…

This module on health assessment is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. A total of seven objectives are included to help students utilize knowledge of physical factors which may influence health and behavior in order to recognize signs and symptoms which indicate…

This module on techniques of intervention is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. Following notes on the target population (community college students), module length (51 class hours), and suggested class size (15-25 students), the module contains the following…

This tenth of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with crisis and emergency situations. It helps students to recognize crises and emergencies and to accept their own resources and experiences as a basis for understanding experiences of others. First steps, such as information…

This eleventh of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with chemical dependence. It is intended to make students aware that chemical dependence takes many forms for all age groups. Basic knowledge of drugs and the effect of use is included, and students are encouraged to examine…

This fifth of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with the helping process. It explores the social concept of helping and provides student experiences to enable them to practice certain helping skills, including problem identification, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning,…

This third of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with roles and responsibilities in a family and community services work situation. It focuses on employer-employee roles as well as relationships with co-workers. Information about laws, regulations, policies, and procedures is also…

Part of a five-part package (see note) of training materials to teach interviewing skills to human services personnel, this participant's workbook contains all the forms and training aids that would typically be distributed to the participants during the training session. It includes material needed for the various training exercises that are done…

This thirteenth of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with death and dying. It helps the student to be aware of different kinds of death, stages of emotion, and attitudes toward death. Students have opportunities also to express their own feelings. The role of community…