Human Services Computing: Concepts and Applications - Brossura

Slavin, Simon; Schoech, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1560240636 ISBN 13: 9781560240631

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1990

Riassunto

Here is a book to assist human service professionals and students in becoming intelligent users of computing technologies. In focusing on the entire spectrum of computing and its current and potential application to the human services, this enlightening book examines computing as a societal phenomenon and as a tool for improving the decisions made in the process of helping clients. Human service professionals can move successfully into the information age with this important volume. In a clear and understandable manner, Human Services Computing synthesizes available information from the fields of computer science, systems analysis, information management, and communication within the context of the human service environment. Author Dick Schoech illustrates the theories and the particular tools that make it possible for human services workers to follow the steps within their standard decision-making process--investigating, recording information, formulating alternatives, implementing preferred solutions, and reflecting on results--using the technology available today. He also explores what computing means to clients, practitioners, managers, and policymakers.Human Services Computing is divided into three parts that build on the premise that human service decision making should be understood before applying technology to it. Part I focuses on the human service environment and decision-making process. Part II emphasizes the technology of computing, with chapters on hardware, programming and languages, software, and data management. Part III addresses the applications of computing, including human service software, types of computing systems, the implementation and management of computing systems, and future trends and issues that will have an impact on the human services.This is an essential and practical volume for professionals and students in the human services today. Throughout the book, descriptions of technology and its application are tailored for human service professionals and students with little or no systems, business, or computing background. Computing concepts and terms are defined, helping the reader gradually develop the vocabulary necessary to understand and discuss this highly technical area.

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Contenuti

Contents Preface

• Part I. Introduction, Basic Concepts, and the Setting
• Personal Views of Computing
• Basic Concepts and Historical Context
• Basic Theories: Systems and Decision Making
• Human Service Information Needs
• Part II. The Technology
• Hardware
• Programming and Languages
• Software
• Data Management
• Part III. Application of the Technology to the Human Services
• Human Service Software
• Computing Systems: From Data Processing to Decision Support
• Developing Computing Applications
• Managing Computing Applications
• Trends, Issues, and the Future
• Appendices
• Computer and Information System Glossary
• Subject Index

Product Description

Book by Slavin Simon Schoech Richard

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1560240636
• ISBN 13: 9781560240631
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 626
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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