...Challenges of Being an Advocate and Mediator Elizabeth Tirado BSHS/442 April 8, 2013 Linda Latson, MBA/HCM, MPA Challenges of Being an Advocate and Mediator Advocacy and mediation tend to go hand-in-hand in the human service field; but what happens when advocacy and mediation challenge one another? There are specific methods that a person can use which can relieve the stress of the ethical, moral, and legal challenges of the dual relationship between advocacy and mediation. By definition, a mediator is a third party who works with opposing sides to bring about an agreement (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2004). The goal of the mediator is to resolve misunderstandings between two or more parties. The mediator helps the parties involved resolve conflict, but the mediator is not the decision maker. The conflict ultimately will be resolved by the parties that are feuding. A mediator must remain neutral when in the process of mediation. Remaining neutral for a mediator can present a challenge because of his or her personal beliefs and values that do not relate with either of the feuding parties argument. When a mediator remains neutral, the mediation process is preserved. For a mediator to face the legal, moral, and ethical issues on a regular basis, the mediator must maintain a neutral ground to prevent problems from rising up in the future. The incorporation of mediators and advocates into any human service agency should be mandatory because most clients do not know...
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...Challenges of Being an Advocate and Mediator Challenges of Being an Advocate and Mediator Many challenges are presented when working as a mediator and an advocate in the human services field. Advocacy and Mediation require a person to remain neutral in order to help individuals resolve their issues. The roles of advocates and mediators also come with limitations which if not followed, could lead them to have serious legal problems. In this essay the writer will present the ethical, moral and legal issues that an advocate faces as well as their own opinion of advocacy and meditation integration. In addition the writer will also present their personal philosophy and individual approach to advocating for adult probation. Being an advocate can present ethical, moral and legal issues, ethical issues are presented everywhere within advocacy. Those advocates have the ethical responsibility to act with integrity and honesty. Advocates have the moral obligation to help clients and social causes. The most difficult task in their assignments is the legal and ethical limitations they face when taking on their cases. Some of the most stringent limitations include laws regarding defamation or even hate crimes. These hate crimes are not only present in relation to racisms. A rise in hate crimes has been seen towards and in relation with same-sex marriages. These advocates are faced with the difficult task of protecting these people from hate crimes and must at the same time uphold...
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...Duty Service Members, Military Reserve, Retirees, Family Members and Children. This establishment provides social services in the areas of individual counseling, group counseling, family counseling, diagnoses, medical evaluation boards (Military members), Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), disorder testing, just to name a few. This organization works closely with various establishments off-post in order to have a cohesive plan of treatment on and off-post. I interviewed Ms. Sue Scott, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who works as an Independent Living Skills Trainer within this clinic. She has the duty of providing individualized training to her clients based on their assessed needs. Ms. Scott advocates for her clients on many levels compiles a portfolio for them to “live” by. Some of the areas touch on establishing personal relationships socially through community interaction, financial assistance, medicinal help, and hygienic support. If this doesn’t sound like a full schedule, she also oversees her clients’ everyday living circumstances (cooking, cleaning, banking, etc.) and their personal physical care as well ( brushing of teeth, showers, washing of laundry, etc.) Last but not least, Ms. Scott makes public appearances within her community to make the public sector aware of the effects of disabilities such as TBI. A vast majority of people are under the misconception that TBI is genetic. Traumatic Brain Injury occurs through mishaps...
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...Issues of Advocacy in the Human Service Field Helen Drabick BSHS/44 June 29, 2015 Fred Oskin Issues of Advocacy in the Human Service Field An advocate is a person who acts in support of an interested party during negotiation, litigation, or another conflict resolution process. When being an advocate the relationship with your client the client has to trust you and believes that you can get the help that is needed. There are many different types of housing for teens that are homeless. The homeless shelters provide beds for homeless youths 16 through 20 shelter and transitional housing with supportive services. The youths are allowed to stay in these programs as long as they are making healthy goal progress and respecting house and community rules. Youth counselors and case managers provide direct care for the youth 24 hours per day, under supervision of Program Director. The youths get clean bedrooms, bathrooms, and laundry facilities, three nutritious meals per day, personal hygiene supplies and bus tokens. Youths work together to define housing, social, personal, health and educational goals and opportunities. The Social Workers that work at the shelters are committed to working with young people from where they are to help gain real life living skills at every level including how to engage with adults and other youths in the house... Helping prepare youths to engage constructively in their communities and develop self assurance by addressing both their basic...
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...Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator Robert Black BSHS/442 June 20, 2011 Nicole Fogel Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator In some circumstances an advocate or mediator may face the potential of a dual relationship in which said advocate or mediator most likely will face ethical, moral, and legal challenges. Dual relationships occur when professionals assume two roles simultaneously or sequentially with an individual seeking assistance (Guthmann, Heines, & Kolvitz, n.d.). Dual relationships include sexual intimacy with a client and (or) providing the service to a friend or relative. Within this paper an exploration of the ethical, moral, and legal challenges advocates and mediators may face regarding dual relationships will occur. A personal opinion concerning the integration of advocacy and mediation within the human services field will also be presented as well as a personal philosophy and approach to advocating and mediating within a child welfare agency setting. Challenges of Dual Relationships An advocate or mediator offering friendship or love to a client outside the purview of his or her duties, or if the exchanges goods or services with a client has occurred, indicates professional boundaries have been violated and a dual relationship has been formed (Mediation Council of Illinois, 1999). A Dual relationship is considered a conflict of interest and crosses the ethical boundaries issues set forth in most advocacy and...
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...Challenges of being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator BSHS 411 December 9, 2012 Andrea Winston Challenges of being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator In some circumstances an advocate or mediator may face the potential of a dual relationship in which said advocate or mediator most likely will face ethical, moral, and legal challenges. Dual relationships occur when professionals assume two roles simultaneously or sequentially with an individual seeking assistance (Guthmann, Heines, & Kolvitz, n.d.). Dual relationships include sexual intimacy with a client and (or) providing the service to a friend or relative. Within this paper an exploration of the ethical, moral, and legal challenges advocates and mediators may face regarding dual relationships will occur. A personal opinion concerning the integration of advocacy and mediation within the human services field will also be presented as well as a personal philosophy and approach to advocating and mediating within a child welfare agency setting. Challenges of Dual Relationships An advocate or mediator offering friendship or love to a client outside the purview of his or her duties, or if the exchanges goods or services with a client has occurred, indicates professional boundaries have been violated and a dual relationship has been formed (Mediation Council of Illinois, 1999). A Dual relationship is considered a conflict of interest and crosses the ethical boundaries issues set forth in most advocacy and mediation...
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...mission of the Department of Human Services is to assist low-income individuals and families to maximize their potential for economic security and self-sufficiency (Department of Human Services, 2012). Under the Department of Human Services, is Family Services? This department has numerous agencies that provide protection, intervention, and social services to meet individual needs (Department of Human Services, 2012). As a team, we will compare and contrast the roles of mediator and advocate by describing the power limitations of each role, discuss under what circumstances an advocate is used during mediation, and which role is most critical to problem solving. The team will discuss the mediator bias, limitations of the mediator, scope of power, conflict of interest, confidentiality, mediator neutrality and impartially. ~”The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”~(Mahatma Ghandi, 1869-1948). Power Limitations of Each Role There are limits to everything, mediators and advocates are no exception to the rule. In the Family Services, the power limitations for both roles differ from one another. A mediator’s limitations are: only facilitating communication during a negotiation, possessing no final say in the ultimate decision of a dispute, no control over the content that will be...
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...Challenges of being an Planned Parenthood Advocate and Neutral Facilitator Lorraine Sardin BSHS/441 July 28, 2912 Stephanie Taylor Challenges of being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator In this paper I will discuss in detail the legal challenges of dual relationships of ethical and moral challenges of advocating and mediating on a personal perspective of integration. Also to identify in this paper, individual approach to advocating and mediating within the Planned Parenthood Center’s site, and my personal philosophy. My personal perspective as a Clinician that offers mediator services like the services that is offered by the Planned Parenthood Agency. At this agency it is important for a mediator to have confidence in the services provided, and has no personal objections to issues like abortion. In order to be a nonbiased person mediating for two parties that may be involved with abortion or an individual, it would be important that the clinician has no conflicts of interest with the persons that decide to have the Abortion. An Abortion is a critical decision for a mother to make. In our country, there are that believe that Abortion is “MURDER” no matter what the situation. Mediation for Abortion, the mediator has to accept the mother’s decision no matter what their own personal beliefs are. Because with mediation it does not involve changing the client’s minds or making decisions for them; what it involves is facilitating communication...
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...conflict and try to reach an understanding of one another. A mediator is not there to create a solution but rather promote it and keep their parties engaged in problem solving. An advocate also works with clients but they side with the better half. They work with clients in order to help them negotiate on their own and also represent them during their conflicts. Linking mediation and advocacy to human services requires all three parties to be fully engaged in helping individuals. An advocate and mediator are instructed to help individuals during a conflict; this links them to human services because they are required to use their thinking skills as well as people skills to help them during their disagreements. Human service professionals are determined to find the equality in other individuals by helping them realize what the other half is expecting from the other person as well as carrying out many roles. Human services professionals negotiate just like mediators and advocates with their clients the purpose, goals, and nature of a helping relationship, all professionals are entitled to protect the client's rights by providing confidentially and maintaining a decent privacy level. If the professional feels that the client is a threat to themselves or others then the professional is unconstrained from seeking consultation and breaking the confidentiality of the relationship to seek help for their client. Mediators and advocates also protect the integrity and security of the client when...
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...Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator BSHS 441 Human Service Professionals have numerous distinctive qualities they use every day when working with their customers. One of the most significant jobs that a Human Service Professional do is assists the customer with the challenges that the customer is faced with. A customer settling on choices can be one of the jobs that the Human Service Professional would need to help with. Some individuals would assume that an individual would not require any assistance settling on a choice however that is not correct and the Professional can assist in a manner that makes the choice making simpler for the customer. As a Human Service Professional, in order for the expert to assist the customer in a successful way they must be acquainted with the rules and proper techniques. What is an Advocate? An Advocate is an individual who assists individuals normally individuals who can’t assist themselves. These certain sorts of individuals could go from a mental weakness to a physical debilitation. What is a Mediator? The Mediator is fundamentally the same to an Advocate. The distinction would be the Mediator is assistance to one or a few individuals. Challenges of the Dual Relationship Throughout Mediation it is a procedure with a third party. The third party is known as Mediator that will assist the parties’ outcome an argument and think of a shared acceptable resolution to their argument. ( Leviton & Greenstone...
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...BSHS 441 Entire Course (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com BSHS 441 Week 1 Individual Assignment Paper on a Specific Population and the Advocate Role (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 2 Individual Assignment Literature Review of Mediation and Advocacy (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 2 Team Assignment Interview of a Social Service Agency Using Advocates (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 3 Individual Assignment Paper on the Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator (Mediator) (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 3 Team Assignment Interview of a Social Service Agency on Their Use of Mediation (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 4 Individual Assignment Paper Based on Literature Review (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 4 Team Assignment Interview With a Social Services Lobbyist (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 5 Individual Quiz (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 5 Team Assignment Presentation on the Use of Mediation within an Agency Setting (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course) BSHS 441 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BSHS 441 Week 1 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank...
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...Mediation or Conflict Resolution Processes The interviewee position as Center Coordinator/Supervisor requires her to play the role of the internal and external mediator. She plays mediator when staff members have issues that arise between them. Mediation is used with the interviewee because it allows the individuals involved to give their perspectives on the matter. During mediation the interviewee demonstrates fairness, respect, equal attention and confidentiality. This helps when a neutral party to the matter, can assist the individual in making a decision that is satisfying for all parties as a resolution to the matter at hand. Some of the issues that the interviewee serve as mediator for are child abuse or neglect, low income families that are not able to meet the needs of their children and families, language barriers, challenging behaviors of the students and encouragement of parental involvement. Each case is handled with the appropriate actions warranted for each issue respectfully, and cautiously not to overlook anything and to ensure immediate attention. The interviewee has been an advocate for over 40 years. Advocacy is important to her because children need someone to be their voice and truly loves children. Also she feels strongly about being the voice of individuals who do not understand the process of acquiring resources for needed services. The interviewee goals are to provide a smooth transition for the children from Head Start to Elementary School and...
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...Bioethics and Humanities acknowledges positive benefits of mediation training. In times when moral consensus in the most intractable of cases is not possible, mediation or other conflict resolution strategies might help the parties reach a resolution. Moreover, mediation training can help ethics consultants achieve mastery of the interpersonal elements of ethics consultation. However, to argue that mediation can be appropriately adapted as an ethics consultation modality is a more controversial matter. This paper surveys the bioethics literature regarding the role of mediation as a consultation modality and presents criticisms levied against bioethics mediation. The strongest criticisms concern the supposed neutral or impartial stance mediators must take to the conflicts in which they intervene. Such impartiality is either not appropriate for ethics consultation or it is impossible to achieve, opponents of bioethics mediation argue. In defense of the role of mediation in ethics consultation, I argue that these two strong criticisms can be overcome by suggesting a new understanding of impartiality...
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...CSV1103 10187116 Mbaita Tracy Samulela 11-05-2015 Assignment one Mediation Introduction Medication is defined as the resolution between rivals in a disagreement (Geldard & Geldard, 2012). The mediation methods takes place when two different parts meet to addressee their problems, where the mediator comes in as the third party and assist individuals with communication in order to gain resolutions to their problems. Medication can also be an agreement developed after a disagreement. Mediation involves reflection that results in resolutions that may possibly or might not be acknowledged by the opposing party. It can also be described as a method of resolution of an industrial disagreement, in which a third party discuss with individuals involved and finds a result, which is not, conversely, binding on the parties involved. (Geldard & Geldard, 2012). Mediation referees to the practice of having a third person involved in this case may be a manager or supervisor in any form, it can be utilized to operate as a vacillator in assisting parties in a disagreement to come to a mutual accepting in which they may be capable taking and living with (Cousins & Benitz, 1999). Mediators are not judges; they can a person who’s capable to assist the disputes to settle in a convenient way for an effective resolution. Mediation is a process used for resolving disputes in schools or early intercession programs, it is also used for parents of children with disabilities, mediation identifies...
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...promotes improved service delivery systems by addressing not only the quality of direct services, but also by seeking to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among professionals and agencies in service delivery” (The National Organization for human service). In America, the National organization of Human Services is considered to be the nation's principal agency for health protection and provision of essential human services to all Americans especially those who are considered to be in the lower level of society. Human Services professionals working for and with the varied agencies mediate and advocate to resolve conflict and to educate about its varied causes and concerns. Advocates speak for and in behalf of a particular concern. For example - domestic abuse, discrimination and racism, and environmental issues are just to name a few. Mediators are the individuals who are hired as neutral players to come between two or more conflicting parties for the purpose of helping them find a point of agreement for conflict resolution. This website is a great vehicle to research advocacy and...
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