...Careers in Human Services Desiree Baldwin Post University Researched five careers in the area of human services; my research consisted of their primary tasks, educational requirements, the population they serve, the average salaries they earn, potential challenges and rewards, hiring outlook for the following careers in Human Services. Also, my outlook of whether or not I would go into this career? Why or why not? First I would like to start off with a Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors whom primary tasks are counseling and advising individuals who suffer from alcohol, drug addiction, eating disorders, gambling, and other behavioral problems. They may counsel individuals, families, groups, or even engage in prevention programs, to help individuals recover from addiction or modify their behavioral patterns with the intentions of gaining full recovery. As a Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors they provide direct service to the clients. In their role they provided services geared towards behavior changes, primarily to change clients’ behavior, ranging from coaching and counseling to casework, psychotherapy, and behavior therapy (Woodside & McClam, 2012, p.186). Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselor are always ready to lend a helping hand to people who may be struggling with addiction of behavioral disorder, and they will work with their clients to better understand the conditions of that human being. The educational...
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...UNIV/100 Career Exploration Plan Worksheet For this assignment, you will research the http://www.phoenix.edu website and use the My Career Plan tools on eCampus. To complete this assignment, follow the directions provided in each section. You may refer to the completed example in the Week 3 Materials as a guideline. When you complete each section, submit this document to your Week 3 Assignment 1 link on your student website. Save this document so you can reference it as you work on building your career plan in your future University of Phoenix courses. Section 1: Career Research 1. Go to http://www.phoenix.edu and browse the available degrees, then complete the following table. 2. List the degree programs you are interested in and potential careers that might require these degrees. Careers and degrees I’m interested in | What I know about these careers and degrees | What I need to know about these careers and degrees | Case/Social Worker | Great job opportunities available in every city, especially for bilinguals. Salary paying job with benefits, normal work hours; I get to help people. The University of Phoenix offers an Associates of Arts degree with a concentration in Human Services Management. I know that with this degree I can seek a job with the government and it has a rapid growth as Health Care is also growing. | I need to know how likely I am to get a job with this Associates degree or if I need to continue my education to a Bachelor’s...
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...Student Summary Starting a new career in social work has been a therapeutic journey of self-reflection and self-actualization believing in my ability to make an impact in the revitalization of community by giving my veteran brethren a hand, to get out of the ditch of life circumstances. Collaborating with the attorneys and the legal staff at Legal Aid Foundation Los Angeles (LAFLA) has offered insight into how my role as a social worker is intertwined with the successful petition for client benefits. In the role as a social worker at LAFLA could be considered as a hybrid. A mix of client advocate and social worker. Using my innate ability to build relationships, along with nonverbal body positioning and empathy to build rapport. Intiatial...
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...Decision in getting an MBA Decision to get an MBA At a young age, my initial dream profession is through the imagination in becoming a successful teacher, and later changes my mind in visualizing, pursuing my education Health Care Management and finally ended the ultimate decision on pursuing on MBA. The decision-making development headed for accomplishing my MBA entails heavily preceding the optimistic side; in comparison to the opposing objection. It has been three long years ever since I graduated and achieved my bachelor’s degree in Workforce Education and Development. The raising objection is in conjunction with the various contemplations came to mind, afore the explanations the motivation why my decision concluded to concentrate an MBA program. In today’s economy, the competition is rather difficult without a graduate degree, struggling together, is the United States Navy. The Navy mandated several policies toward downsizing certain ratings for personnel staffing, luckily enough, my rating is not on the planned policy. The continuation advantage in the development of my professional and personal growth in pursuing MBA is fundamentally marketable as an active duty military and enhance potentially in civilian life. Taking into consideration the majority of years’ experience, as military active duty Logistics Specialist, MBA program willpower me an opportunity to strengthen my global business background, expanding my networking...
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...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the career development process and outline an approach of how to progress through it. I will choose a specific Career Theory from the textbook that fits into my personal beliefs of human behavior and career development. I will provide the main points of this theory and use examples from my life to demonstrate how this theory will be beneficial. I will also identify any potential weaknesses or aspects that I may disagree with. What Is a Career? A career can be defined as the "time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by the person" (Zunker, 2012). This also includes "activities and positions involved in vocations, occupations, and jobs as well as to related activities with an individual's lifetime of work" (Zunker, 2012). A career should be a job that one benefits from not only monetarily but also in some personal way. People should be careful in choosing a career because most people spend over half of their lives working. If one chooses the right career than they can lead a happier life. So many people have what can be considered job instead of a career. A job where one works only to receive money can lead one to be unhappy and cause quite a bit of stress. Overtime this can have an effect on an individual’s overall health. This is why the idea of career development can be so important. What is Career Development? Career development can be defined as a process in which...
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...and physical health of employees which includes absence of social support from superior or colleagues, role uncertainty, absence of rewards and lack of respect for workers and the work they perform (Leka and Houdmont 2010). In this article, research was conducted on a group of Japanese workers to analyse the relationship concerning organizational justice (procedural and interactional) and psychological distress. The purpose of this study is (a) to determine whether low procedural justice and low interactional justice will result in higher risks of psychological distress and (b) to investigate whether it influence more on permanent or non-permanent employees. Summary of article A study was conducted in a manufacturing listed organization situated in Kanton. The overall number of qualified employees considered for the research was 1,017 which comprise of 373 males (365 permanent and 8 non-permanent employees) and 644 females (161 permanent and 483 non-permanent employees), conducted from August 2009 to August 2010. The information was gathered using self-administrated questionnaire except chronic physical conditions and life events which were evaluated by multiple choice questions. The scales includes Organizational Justice Questionnaire, K6 (evaluate psychological distress), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (evaluate neuroticism); Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire and Job Content Questionnaire (evaluate job demands, job control and social support at work)...
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...Conditions as a Determinant of Health This summary is primarily based on papers and presentations by Andrew Jackson, Senior Economist, Canadian Labour Congress, and Michael Polanyi Assistant Professor, Saskatchewan Population Health Research and Evaluation Unit, and Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina. The presentations were prepared for The Social Determinants of Health Across the Life-Span Conference, held in Toronto in November 2002. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Health Canada. Current Situation Over the 1980s and 1990s, there has been an ongoing restructuring of the labour market and of employment relationships. The intent of these changes has been to promote productivity and competitiveness, as opposed to promoting a worker-centred agenda of “good jobs” (Lowe, 2000). In Canada, only two-thirds of the employed workforce are in “standard” salaried jobs with no defined end date (mostly provided by large firms and the public sector). In this shrinking core job market, workers who have survived layoffs, privatization and contracting-out are generally working longer and harder. Employers have tried to increase profitability and competitiveness and to contain budgets by boosting productivity. This has been accomplished largely by increasing workloads. For example, in the health sector, fewer nurses, social workers and other health professionals must now deal with...
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...University Abstract This paper presents a summary of the Counseling in Therapy video. In the video the actors discuss real life cases where the Supreme Court Judge had to rule on topics such as: exceptions to confidentiality, privilege, reporting, and the duty to warn. This writer will also discuss her finding s about the statures and laws as they pertain to North Carolina and give a summary of each. Finally the writer will discuss her reflection and how she could put these to action in her counseling career. Summary The video presentation was very interesting. It allowed actors to discuss real cases to give a better understanding about Confidentiality, Privilege, Reporting, and the Duty to Warn. It gave a clear picture of how these things, though they may sound similar are quite different in many ways. The first case was about a young boy was taken to the hospital by his foster parents. He was unconscious with bruises down the spine of his back and a bruise under his eye. When the nurse questioned her about it she stated that it was from being jostled in his car seat. The nurse did not make any note of that observation nor did she call CPS to report possible abuse as she believed what she was told by the foster mother. Dominic was then brought back to the hospital four days later suffering from head trauma and then died. Nurse Brown was being charged with a crime for failure to report the abuse. It is noted that health care professionals are mandated to report...
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...Incorporating a Christian Worldview: Religion, Psychology, Christian Counseling Introduction: We live in a society where there are constant changes within our healthcare system which impacts every one of our lives. Everyone at some point in their life has been to the hospital, and the experience is often positive or negative based on your reason for going and the people you may encounter. Our healthcare while better than other countries could use some improvement. There are many underserved populations of indigent care patients who have problems with linkage to care for various reasons. Even with the introduction of Obama care unfortunately for all it’s not affordable and there is an unfair imbalance of those who receive care the best care because of lack of coverage and financial resources. I am passionate about the delivery of appropriate healthcare to all individuals. It would be my intent to impact the hospital administration field in such away we are able to ensure equality in the treatment and delivery of care for the patients regardless of socioeconomically class or status. Body: According to my strengths quest results my top five themes were positivity, developer, connectedness, achiever, and being strategic. These strengths can easily be transferred in the Hospital Administrator role. This is a senior level position which is responsible for managing both clinical and non-clinical aspects of hospital management inclusive of financial, personnel and clinical...
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...Summary According to the Mental Health and Addictions statistics of Canada, most of us will suffer from some kind of mental illness in our lives. Every family from every corner of the globe will have someone that will be affected by a mental health issue in their lifetime. Without support for the families and help keeping the family unit strong, it can crumble. When a family unit breaks down, so to does our society and for the individual, could mean becoming displaced and homeless or incarceration. We need to be supportive of the families and help them learn to cope so as to become the major caregiver of their loved ones. This paper outlines the important role of family, the impact of mental health and addiction problems on families, the needs of families, and the benefits they have in care provision and decision-making. It will state the importance of the needs for a support group in which the family members can become the greatest allies to their loved ones who suffer from mental illness and addictions. Introduction Mental health and addiction is in every corner of the globe. It is a disease that is staggering in numbers but you would not hear someone say they have a sister that is sick with bi-polar or an uncle that has the disease of addictions. It is a disease that is in some cases as serious as cancer and kills just as many. It is in every family unit and it still has a stigma that keeps people feeling shameful and makes it harder for them to accept when someone in...
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...Survey Summary on: Stress in the hospitality sector. By Group: Twinkling Stars Name Roll Sujan Sarker 27 Gayatri Saha 29 Md. Rubel Miah 42 Nasrin Akhter 45 Rothy Das Chaiti 46 Md. Kuraisin Hossain 66 BBA Program (4th batch) THM-222: Human Resource Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh 2012 Letter of Transmittal 27 November, 2012 Mr. Md. Shariful Alam Khandakar Lecturer Dept. of Tourism and Hospitality Management Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Dear Sir, It is a great pleasure for me to submit the summary on “Stresses in Hospitality Sector”. This study has given me the opportunity to know about job stress of hotel industries. The experiences that I have gathered through this study will help me in our future career, indeed. I would like to convey my special thanks and gratitude to Md. Shariful Alam Khandakar for condescending my effort & for giving me proper guidance and valuable advice. I try to my best to cover all the relevant fields. I will be honored to provide you any additional information, if necessary. Sincerely Yours, Group: Twinkling Stars BBA 4th Batch Dept...
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...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. Thank you in advance: Kevin Van Eaton The ethical behavior of a Human service professional Here at the University of Phoenix we are taught what it means to be an effective human service professional by exercising our skills in offering assistance...
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...individuals and groups” (Personality Research, 2014, para. 2). Research Article Part I Psychology research articles contain several standard parts. It is necessary to understand the distinguishing elements of these components in order for the reader to accurately comprehend the research being presented. “Most articles are separated into seven main sections: 1. Title and author 2. Abstract 3. Introduction 4. Methodology or method 5. Results 6. Discussion 7. References" (Education Portal, 2013-2014, para. 2) The title paints a picture about the main topic of the article and is usually the first thing that a reader sees when browsing through an electronic library for an article (Education Portal, 2013-2014). The abstract is a brief summary of the entire article, with the purpose to provide the reader with a quick review of the article's content (Education Portal, 2013-2014). When people search for articles online, they will use the article's title and abstract to make the decision of the...
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...I. INTRODUCTION Everyone suffers from stress. No one is immune to it. A certain person suffers stress on some level. Sometimes levels are higher and sometimes they are considerably lower. We don’t have to let stress stop us from achieving what we want in life. Stress is common to workers, parents and citizens. Stress in the workplace is a growing concern in the present condition of the economy, where employees increasingly face conditions of overwork, job insecurity, low levels of job satisfaction, and lack of autonomy. Workplace stress has been shown to have a causing death effect on the health and well-being among employees, as well as a negative impact on workplace productivity and profits. These are solutions that individuals and organizations can take to alleviate the negative impact of stress, or it can be surpassed. But, employees must need to learn first to recognize the symptoms that indicates they are feeling stressed out and employees need to be aware at the effects that stress had on their employees’ health as well as on company profits. The pressures of modern lives, coupled with the demands of a job can lead to emotional imbalances that are collectively labeled stress. Not all stress is unpleasant. To be alive means to respond to achievement and the excitement of the challenge. In fact, evidence indicates that people need amount of stimulation, and that monotony can bring on some of the same problems as over work. Both good and bad events...
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...Introduction to Career Development Research Project May 11, 2013 Introduction Career development researchers pay little attention to the career experiences of persons with disabilities (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2002). Even scholars who call on the profession to engage in more advocacy often fail to identify the near silence that exists on behalf of persons with disabilities (Niles & Harris Bowlsbey, 2002). Clearly, this is an embarrassing, and inexcusable, gap in the career development literature (Niles & Harris Bowlsbey, 2002). Based on the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) of 2006, people with disabilities make up 16.5% of the adult population 15 years and older in Canada, or nearly 4.2 million people (Counsel of Canadians with Disabilities, 2013). People classified as having a disability in PALS are those who indicate any difficulty hearing, seeing, communicating, walking, climbing stairs, bending, learning or doing any similar activities or who have a physical condition or mental condition or health problem that reduces the amount or kind of activity they can do at home, work or school or in other activities such as transportation or leisure (Counsel of Canadians with Disabilities, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the unique career considerations of the disabled in the career counseling process. Three career counseling services will be illustrated that will meet...
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