'This volume represents a synthesis of human service practice and the academic field of sociology. The primary audience for this book is upper-level undergraduate sociology students, but the material has been used in a graduate course on sociological practice. Professionals practicing in the human service field, especially those without backgrounds in sociology who are trying to align their practices with the new client- and family-centered partnership models may find this book useful.' Administration and Policy in Mental Health, January 2001

• Background and Theoretical Foundations.- The Partnership Approach.- Changing Practices in Human Services.- Theoretical Foundations I.- Theoretical Foundations II.- The Client’s Social World and Methods for Discovering It.- The Social World of the Service User.- Identification Techniques I.- Identification Techniques II.- Identification Techniques III.- Models of Intervention and Evaluation.- Linking Identification and Intervention.- Social Change, Social Problems, and the Limits of Intervention.- Service Evaluation.