The Human Services Delivery System
is a comprehensive textbook that provides integrated theoretical and practical coverage of each of the five major systems of human services. Featuring a nationally known expert on each service:
S. Richard Sauber on the mental health system
Harold J. Vetter on the criminal justice system
Harold H. Weissman on the social welfare system
Mario D. Fantini on the education system
F. Douglas Scutchfield on the health care system
Sauber also offers a coherent "general systems theory" perspective that clarifies the problems of relationships, structures, and interdependencies of dynamic systems -as well as chapters on self-help approaches, service integration, planning, coordinating, and program evaluation.