Sampling of Human Services Books in the Madison College Libraries
Addiction: a Very Short Introduction by Call Number: 362.29 H927ISBN: 9780199557233Publication Date: 2023Presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how and why it develops, how it is treated, and how society can respond to it.
Effective Grant Writing and Program Evaluation for Human Service Professionals by Call Number: 658.15224 Y94ISBN: 9780470469989Publication Date: 2013Integrates the topics of grant proposal writing and program evaluation.
A Guide to Writing for Human Service Professionals by Call Number: 808.066361 G559ISBN: 9781538106204Publication Date: 2018Offers students and professionals practical tools to improve their writing.
Harm Reduction by Call Number: 362.290973 K89ISBN: 9781534504134Publication Date: 2019Harm reduction is a philosophy that accepts the idea that drug use is inevitable and that making it safer is a more realistic approach.
Helping Skills for Human Service Workers by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780398093051Publication Date: 2020Emphasizes research towards the building of relationships and encourages productive change between human service workers and their clients.
Homelessness in America by Call Number: 362.5920973 E345ISBN: 9781538159576Publication Date: 2022Examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of the intractable homelessness challenge.
Housing First Manual by Call Number: 363.583 T882ISBN: 9781616496494Publication Date: 2016As an evidence-based practice, Housing First has not only been proven to be successful in ending homelessness, but is also cost-effective.
The Injustice of Place by Call Number: 339.460973 E235ISBN: 9780063239494Publication Date: 2023Based on a data-driven approach, argues that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice, instead rural.
An Introduction to Human Services by Call Number: 361 W894ISBN: 9780840033710Publication Date: 2011Delivers a practical and comprehensive introduction to the profession.
Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare by Call Number: 362 Z38ISBN: 9780495809524Publication Date: 2010Comprehensive overview of the Human Services profession.
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder by Call Number: 616.89820092 K968ISBN: 9781771622462Publication Date: 2020Kurchak examines the steps she took to become "an autistic success story," how the process almost ruined her life and how she is now trying to recover.
Poverty, by America by Call Number: 362.50973 D464PISBN: 9780593239919Publication Date: 2023Reimagines the debate on poverty, making "provocative and compelling" arguments that it persists in America because the rest of us benefit from it.
Sage Guide to Social Work Careers by Call Number: 361.32 B618ISBN: 9781544324715Publication Date: 2019Covers fundamentals of the social work profession - from coalition building to advocacy engagement and stakeholder outreach.
WorldCat Discovery
Keywords to use in search for human services materials: addiction; alcoholism; child care; counselors; drug abuse; homelessness; social services; social work. For the memoirs assignment, try combining the term memoirs with the topic you're interested in (e.g. homelessness).