Reinventing Human Services

<p>Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive stigmatizing and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to reinvent human services showing the urgency and the difficulty of the task. It draws on successful examples in Britain Canada and the United States to develop a new paradigm for social work practice one that integrates individual family and community levels of practice and reconceptualizes professional-community relations. The interdisciplinary team of authors includes scholars researchers and practitioners from the disciplines of economics urban planning communications criminal justice psychology marriage and family therapy education and social work.</p>