Helping Clients Who are Poor

The findings of this study of purchased services provided by a voluntary agency to low-income unmarried mothers were that, despite some differences in worker-client views of client problems and some degree of worker dissatisfaction with services, workers were very active in helping clients obtain needed goods and services, and clients were quite positive in their evaluation of this help. It is suggested that, pending reform in the income-maintenance and social services systems, providing as many poor clients as possible with individual counselor/advocates may be the best that can currently be done, although costly and unproductive in the long run. It is also suggested that reconceptualizing the goals of social services and the nature of worker activities may facilitate more creative program design

Agency (philosophy · Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Goods and services · Low income · Perception · Public relations · Social Welfare · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Marketing · Psychology · Social Work

• Perceptions of clients by professional helpers

  Thomas Ashby Wills•Psychological Bulletin•1978

  Añadir item

• Young clients' exposure to community violence

  Neil B Guterman, Mark Cameron•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•1999

  Añadir item

• Cross-cultural pastoral counseling

  Open Access•Richard W Voss•Pastoral Psychology•1992

  Añadir item

• The Portability of Family Therapy to Different Cultural and Socio-Economic Contexts

  Myrna L Blake•Asia Pacific Journal of Social…•1991

  Añadir item

• Factors Related to Congruence Between Social Worker and Client Problem Definitions in an Acute Care Hospital

  Gail K Auslander, Dvorah Itzik•Journal of Social Service Research•1997

  Añadir item

• Social Workers' and Service Users' Causal Attributions for Poverty

  Idit Weiss‐Gal, I Weiss-Gal et al.•Social Work•2009

  Añadir item

• Service Delivery at the Neighborhood Level

  Alfred J Kahn•Social Service Review•1976

  Añadir item

• The Client Speaks

  Howard J Nagel, J E Mayer et al.•The Family Coordinator•1971

  Añadir item