...Human Services Client Paper Tom Berg University of Phoenix BSHS/305 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES: AN INTRODUCTION Dr. Lowell Brubaker March 10, 2014 Abstract The Human Services Client Paper explains some of the many problems and issues that an individual may struggle with in his or her lifetime. From their ability to seek help with their most basic needs to seek help for more complex physical and mental needs. We have learned over the years that a client's needs and problems range from short term issues to longer term issues and being able to solve the most immediate ones first will allow the professional the ability to recognize and help solve the underlying long term issues. As Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows us the complex structure of one’s needs, it also gives us an example of how to understand the need to satisfy those needs and to help the person achieve self-actualization. The professional must possess certain skills and qualities as they are essential to a well-balanced helping process. These skills range from effective communication with the ability to walk a few feet in someone else’s shoes. Human Services Client Paper According to the National Organization for Human Services (nationalhumanservices.org), the field of Human Services is broadly defined, uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining...
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...University of Phoenix Material Human Services Professional Worksheet Select three agency types from the following list: |A drug and alcohol treatment program |A hospital rehabilitation center (A physical rehabilitation center) | |A homeless shelter |A crisis intervention center | |A day treatment drop-in center for teenagers |An outpatient mental health center | Complete the table for the chosen agencies by providing a 60- to 85-word response in each column. An example has been completed as a guide. |The agency |Description of the agency |Who they serve |The professionals involved with the |The professional’s role | | | | |agency | | |A domestic violence program|A domestic violence program provides |As mentioned, this program may |In many residential programs, |The role of the professional working in a| | |protection and resources to |provide protection for individuals,|counselors...
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...The ethical behavior of an effective Human Service Professional Kevin Van Eaton BSHS December 15, 2014 CCC> Mabel Menard The ethical behavior of an effective Human Service Professional Introduction This remediation plan provides individuals with the tools and valuable information to help prepare the students to become effective Human Service professionals. At the University of Phoenix our college chair over the Human Service department has a slogan, “Let’s get to work”. This means life changing work that will push the student towards completing required criteria of moral and ethical standards. I have researched three peer reviewed articles to back up the statements to the questions provided by the Social Science department. In addition, I will be discussing my professional aspirations and self-reflections. This information will come from my personal experience, education, and lifelong learning to be evaluated by the BSHS department. I hope that the information to the readers of this remediation plan see that I am dedicated to be an effective Human Service professional. I am a living testament of being a person with many hats and I hold this information to be true to the best of my knowledge. So with this being said I hope you are inspired from the information that you are going to read and that it gives you reason to reconsider me back into the Social Science program at the University of Phoenix. Thank you for your patience and I hope you enjoy reading this essay...
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...mental health important to your role as a human service professional? Which of the five characteristics listed in the text for human service professionals do you think is most important? Explain why. Why is investing in mental health important to your role as a human service professional? I strongly believe that investigating and understanding mental health is a must to a human service professional. Because before working on a situation we must know the actual situation. We should not work on guess. To give the proper help to the clients it is important to know their history and mentality. They could have any side which need special care such as endeavouring suicide. A service professional should give the best help and to do this they need to all about client as far as possible. They should ask their clients about their different side such as diagnosis, medications and so on. A human service professional must know about their client’s family, relatives, friends, background, community, culture by asking questions. These will help to make the client successful. Any professional should look try to get facts to ensure success. Getting facts need some techniques and skill. Professional needs to know the way of asking right questions. Questions should be such that they will be time affective and provide necessary information. The most challenging part is that every human are different from others. A human service professional needs to interact with different...
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...surrounding neighbors I came in to contact within my day-to-day life. I was raised by parents who were old enough to be my grandparents and in the South there were social values and behaviors still considered to be “old fashioned.” I learn to treat a people with manners, automatic respect, and an attitude of strong work ethics. Some of my earliest memories were of how my father went to work five days a week and never missed a day that I can remember. I also recollect how my step mother taught me so many skills and values that she thought were important for a young lady to learn such as how to cook a home made meal, clean a house, and speak to others with manners. My stepmother always encouraged me to be willing to help those in need in a way that he or she learned how to help him or herself. While attending church I discovered faith and values that were directed from GOD and the bible. I enjoyed the lessons I learned form the bible and try to pass those same lessons and values on to my children. To live a happy and productive life, a person must develop his or her own personal values. Developing personal...
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...Client Paper There are several different problems that people face in their everyday life. Knowing this is critical to be able to understand the client and what problems the client can encounter. There are different levels of problems; some of them are small and some of them are large. The different problems affect people in different ways and this means each person deals with them in different ways. Knowing this is why there are different specific helping skills human professionals can use with clients. When a client has a problem that is letting the human service professionals know that the client is in need of help. The client can show different feelings for different types of problems. It is the professional’s job to focus on the clients problems to find a positive productive way to address their problems. In human service the problems in living have two different components. They are the description of the problems and a plan of action and this leads to the resolution. The problem can be a simple problem to a very difficult problem. The problem needs to be described and labeled such as an even, or situation that is troubling the client. The problem is identified and discussed with the client then they come to a plan of action for solving the problem. Once they know the problem and have discussed and they have a plan it is now time to put the plan in action the results will be evaluated by the human service worker. There are problems that are short term and they can be solved...
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...Foundations of Human Development in the Social Environment Holly Regan BSHS/325 January 19, 2015 Mary Carlisle Foundations of Human Development in the Social Environment Human beings must possess biological, psychological, and social dimensions for human development to occur. It defines who the individual is and how they view and interact with the environment around them. It is essential for human service professionals to understand human development and how it affects individuals because everyone sees things differently. Knowing and understanding how people think and develop are important aspects of being a human service professional. Bio-psycho-social development is defined as the biological, psychological, and social development that come together to form the whole individual. Together these three aspects of human development combine to create an individual’s identity and personality. The biological part of human development affects a person’s ability to interact with the environment on a physical level. An example of such would be someone born deaf would affect how they communicate with others thus making communication challenging. To overcome this challenge the person, with whom they are communicating with, must know sign language or how to read lips. The psychological dimension affects an individual's perception of the world around them. It identifies how a person can function within society and how they view their surroundings. Social dimension determines how people...
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...University of Phoenix Material Foundations of Human Services Worksheet * Problems in Living have significantly large amounts of cases where individuals and families cannot always meet their needs and, therefore, the department of human services developed in response to this problem. * Problems in the Modern World have affected large groups of people by emitting an overwhelmingly stressful feeling of seclusion or estrangement from their neighborhoods and communities. The sense of security is no longer there as were in years past when they were able to confide in and rely on the people in these communities. * Self-Sufficiency is providing services to clients that contribute in the road back to individual and financial autonomy. The provided services allow the clients sufficient assistance in enabling them to help themselves become independent and regain control of their lives as quickly as they can. * Social Care means assisting clients who cannot care for themselves such as children, the elderly, and those individuals with mental illnesses or disabilities in meeting their social needs. * Sociology systematically examines the many ways human societies significantly affect those in those societies. Sociology helps human service professionals better understand what elements of life affect the many structures of living, such as family, gender, race, and poverty. * Psychology’s focus is on the human mind and behavior. Theories examine the way people...
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...clients and the plans in place to rehabilitate, and help with making better decisions. After preparing a profile that describes and explain the client’s impairments and the inability to afford payments for resources and programs needed prepare him/her to be armed with tools and skills to return back to the community, which will allow a successful change of becoming a productive member of society. The report will give information and assessments about the clients and the plans to rehabilitate, and help with making better decisions. After preparing a profile that describes and explain the client’s impairments, the social worker will explain the client’s financial circumstances that does not include the ability to pay for programs necessary to start rehabilitation. A social worker has to acknowledge and legally support the client’s legal confidentiality right, unless the documents includes child abuse or potentials to cause harm to themselves or others. In a case like this, the laws of the courts, with agreed limitations, can supersede the confidentiality agreement and the social worker can request what can and cannot be disclosed in court. “Social workers in public defenders’ offices, ensure defendants have a right to explain their story, and they promote the benefits of rehabilitation” (Betsy Biben, 2012). Retrieved from: http://www.socialworksearch.com/html/nasw.shtml What situations may represent a conflict for a human service professional...
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...Burnout: A Human Service Nightmare Kaplan University Edie Oliver A phone call will not change anything; there is no way of combating the problem, no easy way out. A child is in a home where she is beaten, malnourished, possibly sexually abused, and made to feel that she is an outcast. She is only six years old. The human services caseworker goes to the home and wants to grab her up and run, but she knows, legally, there is nothing she can do. Human service professionals face the daunting task of making the hard decisions like this on a daily basis, leaving some with cases of burnout they never overcome, leading to a life dependent on the same system that lead to their own disability brought on by guilt, depression and chronic fatigue. Imagine 14,894 child abuse and neglect assessments with only 155 caseworkers to handle them. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services conducted a study in 2011 that showed an increase of 1.61% from 2009 in cases handled with a 6.86% decrease in staff (Pgs. 1-5). That would mean each caseworker would have a caseload of 96 individuals. The high emotional demands and guilt play a large role in the stress that leads to burnout in many of these professionals. Smith, Segal & Segal (2013) describes burnout as “a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress” (Par. 2). Feelings of helplessness, seeing life as bleak or unyielding, unhappiness and a profound detachment for life are just...
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...What is Human Services? Carmen M. Riggs BSHS 302 November 19, 2012 Linda Cook, MSSW, LCSW What is Human Services? Human Services were created to look at and help with the challenges that many individuals, children, and families face. Through the services offered by human service agencies, those who cannot meet their needs on their own possibly can receive the help they need. This can include food assistance, cash assistance, medical/mental health assistance, childcare assistance, and many other types of assistance. Human Service agencies/workers strive to provide advocacy and referrals to help people meet their basic needs and to help guide them on the road to self-sufficiency. Human Services cover a broad range of specialties/practices, so in this essay we will discuss the goal and history of Human Services, the nature of the generalist practice, common intervention strategies, and ethical considerations. The Goal of Human Services Human Services is a way for individuals and families to be assisted in meeting their basic physical and emotional needs. Various obstacles can keep some from meeting their needs on their own. These obstacles can include lack of education, lack of support, and mental illness to name a few. Some of these obstacles are self-inflicted, though often the reasons people have trouble...
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...Client Paper Danyelle Littlejohn BSHS/305 02/02/2015 Karis Barnett Client Paper The field of human services has a broad definition. Its objective is to meet the needs of the clients, or human. In the manner in which these needs are met. It varies as much as the needs themselves. Each client or situation is different. Therefore each case must be handled in such a manner. In addition, this must be done while following specific guidelines, as well as maintain a certain standard of care. Human service workers must know how to work with clients, as well as their families. They must do so by utilizing community resources, natural support, and specialized assistance. This promotes the welfare, empowerment, and community involvement of the client. The word client has a variety of definitions. In most cases clients are individuals. However in some situations the word client can be used to describe an entire family, or other group of peoples. A client can be best described as someone or somebody who has a need for a particular service. However the service needed varies as much as the client themselves. It is the duty of the human service professional to decide who has a need for services, as well as what services is needed. Identifying the problems of the client is an important step in servicing the client. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways. There are many methods that can be implemented in identifying a client’s various issues as well as how...
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...What Is Human Services In the human services field there are various directions that anyone may turn to in this profession. If it is social work, counseling, psychology, etc., the goal in these fields is to help those people who come to a professional in need. Helping them turn in the right direction to improve their lives and those around them. We all have basic needs. Some people are not able to meet those basic needs by themselves, so they need the help of someone in human services. Human service professionals help people by removing any barriers with that person’s life that could keep him or her from meeting their needs. Supporting them and the community, and helping them function at the highest ability they can is also another goal to help achieve happiness and their needs. The human services field was not always this way when it first started. The human services profession has been around since the 1800’s, starting with the feudal system in England’s Middle Ages. England helped influence the system for social welfare here in the United States. The wealthy landowners would give small parcels of land out to the under privileged people or peasants, as they called them back then. They thought this would keep poverty down, but it was also a form of slavery because of the background these under privileged people came from. Toward the middle of the fourteenth century the feudal system began fading out of England’s environment. The church began stepping in helping with...
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...will to start with explaining or defining communication as a giving and receiving exchanging ideas, information, signals or messages through appropriate media, enabling individuals or groups to persuade, to seek information or to express emotions. So in order to achieve this definition as health and social care professional’s good communication skills are very vital in other to develop positive relationship, to share information with people using services. Also be able to communicate well with people’s families, cares and their own colleagues and other professionals. They’re different ways of communication in health care we have verbal, written and nonverbal within these means communication it has to be clear to understandable. Before emphasis on the two the theories of communication which was observed in Gracefield Hospital they are actually 4 theories of communication which is Humanistic, Behaviourist, Cognitive and Psychoanalytical however I be will focusing on Psychoanalytical and Humanistic which was observed in to explain what Psychoanalytical according to {Sigmund Freud) He argued that human behaviour is not something inborn but is shaped by the experiences that human being encounters throughout their life that we tend to deal with a situation consciously but will be driven by our unconscious intuitions. For example we always feel weird or awkward after doing or telling something to another person we might not think about it during the situation but afterwards only our mind...
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...In this assignment I will be describing theories of learning, I will be writing briefly about 6 influences and refer to both positive and negative, I will also be writing about skills for learning, support for learning and learning opportunities. Theories of learning - Kolb's experiential learning theory works on two levels: a four stage cycle of learning and four separate learning styles. The four stage cycle are: - Concrete Experience (coming across a new experience of a situation, or interpretation of existing experience); - Reflective Observation (reviewing a new experience and reflecting on the experience); - Abstract Conceptualisation (concluding reflection which gives rise to a new idea, or a modification of an existing abstract concept); - Active Experimentation (planning and then trying out what you have learned to see what result you get). The four stages are: 1. Experience 2. Reflection 3. Conceptualise 4. Test. Honey and Mumford’s learning style theory has the purpose of persuading people to try their ‘test’ in order to find out their own personal way of learning which could be: * Activist like to be involved, like new ideas, lose interest quickly, like to dominate and have ‘jump first/think later’ mentality; * Reflectors like to observe from the edge of the group, consider things from a range of different perspectives, they let others contribute before they do, collect information before drawing a conclusion; * Theorists like to bring together different...
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