Straightforward and concise, the third edition of A Guide to Writing for Human Service Professionals offers students and professionals practical tools to improve their writing. In his animated and highly accessible teaching voice, Glicken presents the rules of punctuation, grammar, and APA style in jargon-free language that's easy to understand. Chapters include detailed, real-world examples on how to write academic papers, client assessments and evaluations, business letters, research proposals and reports, papers for mass audiences, requests for funding, and much more. Glicken provides the most comprehensive writing guide available in an engaging and digestible format, including end-of-chapter exercises that allow readers to further practice their writing and critical thinking skills. A Guide to Writing for Human Service Professionals is an invaluable resource for current and future human service professionals across social work, psychology, and counseling. Updates to the Third Edition include: Much more on evidence-based practice and how to use it in reports and administrative feedback. EBP requires the writer to show, logically, that the work done with clients results in therapeutic gain.Much more on report writing that is free of bias and preconceived notions about clients and, if writing performance reports, about supervised worker.In the realm of hiring new workers, understanding the use of code words which may mask poor performance.Much more on how classroom assignments are used to improve professional writing.Will include information from the latest edition of the APA style manual.Much more will be added to the book on accurate and unbiased writing about diversity, including gender pronoun usage, sexuality, diverse family and relationship structures such as polyamory, and accuracy related to ethnicity, culture, race, neurodiversity, and more.An additional chapter on reporting violent behavior, including domestic abuse, written for social workers who work for the police and agencies dealing with victims of abuse.
