Social Support Networks: Informal Helping in the Human Services

This book offers for the first time a clear conception of what social support networks are, why they are important, how they are identified and sustained, where they fit in an overall framework of human services, and their limits and potential in selected fields of practice. Individual chapters explore: child, adolescent, and family services; daycare and early childhood development; divorced and stepfamilies; schools; delinquency prevention and treatment; mental health; service to the elderly; development disabilities; healthcare and health promotion; and drug treatment.Garbarino, James is the author of 'Social Support Networks: Informal Helping in the Human Services' with ISBN 9780202360317 and ISBN 0202360318.