...Why you chose to enter The Helping Field Milvia Follingstad, Bobbie Wilson, Joanna Piasecki BSHS/ 305 April 6, 2015 John West Why you chose to enter the helping field Why Professionals Choose to Enter the Helping Field. Professionals that choose to enter the helping field are normally mature, sympathetic and, established individuals who help others through interesting conditions. They receive a sense of approval when they help people in need. The tasks in the helping professions are massive, but in numerous cases, the incentives are important. These professionals provide both direct and indirect services to people in need. Some people chose to enter the helping field because many people around have children with disabilities or dysfunctions within the home and want to make a difference with them, helping them to have that support of the ones that have had the same experience. By learning more of how to help them and to find the best way to support them we can help many of the families around to understand what they are going through as well as learning techniques to help themselves with their child or children. Some professionals have actual personal experiences with family of people with different issues. All of these aspects of life have given professionals the motivation to become a worker in the helping field to help those needing help. When in need, we should be able to ask for help and be treated with respect; instead we have seen the opposite...
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...Helping Field Summary Holly Regan, Kevin Gatlin, Latasha Burgos, Sabrina Brown, and Yaddira Espinoza BSHS/305 December 8, 2014 Cassidy Hawf Helping Field Summary The main reason most people go into the helping profession is the desire to help others, but there are other factors that influence a career in the helping field profession. According to Woodside & McClam, these factors are direct work experience, college courses and instructors, friends, acquaintances, or relatives in helping professions, (2011). The ability to contribute to another's growth by helping others is a gratifying feeling for those who want and do enter the helping field of human services and the opportunity to discover more about themselves through self-exploration. Values held by a helping field professional are equally important to the characteristics one must have to be successful as a helping professional. "The most commonly held values in human services: acceptance, tolerance, individuality, self-determination, and confidentiality," (Woodside & McClam, 2011). Holly has chosen the helping field for a handful of reasons. She wants to make a difference in other's lives and knows she has much to offer the population in which she will serve. She has empathy for others, patience, and the ability to work with any facet of clientele without being judgmental. She believes she can provide strength and empowerment to others when they have all, but given up or in and a strong desire to help others...
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...Human Services Clients Tracie Seidelman BSHS/305 March 10, 2014 Darla Roberts Human Services Clients A human service professional is an individual who assist clients, such as groups, families, and communities, to avoid or endure crisis, change, and stress. This prepares them to function freely in areas of life and living. Human service professionals are trained with skills to properly treat and help their clients. When working with clients, human service professionals look at them as a whole person. They take into consideration that this client could have a dilemma with any component in their life. During the helping process, the professional is always aware of the client’s obstacles they may be facing. However, the professional is constantly prepared to concur more than one problem. Normally when an individual seeks professional help, they are among more than the single issue. Working in the human service field can accumulate a wide variety of problems and issues from a range of clients. Due to the variety of clients that human service professionals work with, the issues vary depending on the type of client. When working as a human service professional, it is critical to keep an open mind when dealing and helping clients. In today’s society, the range of problems that clients are facing more and more are housing, childcare, food, medical, etc. With the lack of education in our society, clients are more negligent to get their basic needs. When clients no longer have food...
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...Human Services Profession Susan Breedlove, Bambi Shelnutt, Tosha Hawes, Frances Macmillan BSHS/305 July 27, 2015 Ellen Biros Human Services Profession Someone who works in human services works with children and families, caseworkers at DCS, licensed social workers, and residential directors at social service agencies, human service technicians or assistants. They will also work with professional like Psychologist and counselors. Where a social worker offers financial, personal, mental health and physical assistance to disadvantaged and disabled individuals to help them get back on their feet. (PSG, 2015) They both play vital roles in the social services field helping people regain control over issues they may be having. You will need to earn a Master of Social Work degree to practice in the field of social work. The human services field does not require a master's degree although an associate degree often qualifies you to work as a human services professional. (OBE, 2015) There are many reasons why someone would choose a career in this field like experiences and the need to help others. When one is motivated to help others because they have lived in those same setting, this then becomes another good reason to choose to work for the human services agency. Someone that has experience domestic violence may consider becoming a Domestic violence crisis worker because they understand how hard it is to talk to someone and can make that person feel more at ease and safer...
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...Problems Facing Human Service Clients and How They Are Helped Amanda Blue BSHS/305 February 23, 2015 Joanne Schrock Problems Facing Human Service Clients and How They Are Helped There are many problems in the world today that human service clients are faced with, and are not limited to just a few. There is no one person with one single problem which is shy it is so important that the “whole person” is helped. Some of the problems that plague clients today are innumerable, but I will attempt to elaborate on a few. Human Service workers ensure that children live in safe homes and have their basic needs met. Helping parents to take care of their children may include in assisting with applications for food stamps or low-income housing and helping them to locate appropriate childcare. Housing or the lack of housing is one of the issues facing Human Service clients today. Many people are without homes for various reasons, such as not having money to pay, which means they are jobless, or not making enough to cover their living expenses. A client that is homeless can be faced with many other issues simply because they have no place to live. Another challenge for Human Service clients is depression. Depression can come about when a client is not able to adequately live with the necessities of life and seem to have no means in which to acquire them. When a client cannot provide for him or herself, it is detrimental to their well-being and may bring on a bout of depression...
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...Client Paper Tabatha Jones BSHS/305 11/22/2014 Ellen Biros Client Paper In this essay I will be explaining the range of problems facing human services clients today. In the human services field, we run across so many people that are down on their luck, have hit a rough patch, or are just having a hard time providing for themselves or others. It is our goal to take these clients in and take all the negative in life that they are facing and strategize, categorize, and solve whatever problems we are able to. Ultimately coming to us is the first step that they have taken to becoming self-sufficient again, whether they see that or not. And as a human services worker, you have to realize that each client coming in has their own unique needs and goals that they hope to get out of this newfound relationship, and it is our job to do whatever we can to meet these goals, even if it means referring the client elsewhere. Given all of this, I will be only briefly touching on some areas of issues that human services clients face. And to follow, I will explain some of the necessary skills that will help a human services worker progress in helping clients try and resolve these issues. Needs It is estimated that 671,000 people are homeless on any given night, and 1.2 to 2 million people experience homelessness during one year. The numbers of homeless increased in 2008 and 2009 reflecting the economic downturn (National Alliance...
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...Client Paper Holly Regan BSHS/305 December 15, 2014 Cassidy Hawf Client Paper In order to be a proficient and efficient helper in all facets of the helping field of human services, the helper must first be diverse. Diverse individuals have an upper hand when it pertains to assisting client needs efficiently and their expertise in the proper helping skills to use for each range of problem. The range of problems client's encounter is addiction, homelessness, or mental illness. It is within these ranges of problems the helper must implement a variety of skills to assist the client on how to manage effectively or cope with such issues. When envisioning a client and the problems that can be attributed from the past, the present, and in the future, the helper needs to look at the whole person and not just the problems directly. “Problems for clients are rarely single issues, and the human service professional should approach each client with the expectation of more than one problem. In fact, one problem can cause, influence, or at the very least be related to other difficulties,” (Woodside & McClam, 2011). Range of Problems The range of problems that a client may face can be short-term or long-term. Short-term problems are issues such as being an unemployed or displaced worker, poor living environment, or spousal abuse can be resolved by implementing a plan that will affect each problem by creating a positive outcome. Long-term problems like addiction, homelessness...
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...Client Paper Shorne Davis BSHS/305 10/12/2015 Brenda Schramm Donna Greifer Client Paper Human service developed during the late twentieth century, in a response to human needs and problems. Human service professionals negotiate with clients the purpose, goals, and nature of the helping relationship (KBL781, 2011). Before Human services were provided in the twentieth century, life expectancy was much shorter than today. Over the years health services have doubled the life expectancy of many citizens. The human service field describes various occupations. Human services workers provide services to individuals and families during their crisis. Human service employees provide clients with services to stabilize their lives, become independent, therapy, and treatment. Many services by human resource service agencies and organizations has provided the public with the following; shelter, food, safe environment mental treatment, substance abuse, counseling, or chronic conditions in need of medical treatment. The goal of human service workers is to improve public health, safety and economic circumstances for their community. Many community members need help attaining the basic essentials. Among these are developmentally disabled person, elderly, veterans, immigrants, refugees, substance abusers, and crime victims and offenders (CPD, n.d). The fundamental values of the human service profession include...
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...The Client Paper Carmen Canjura BSHS/305- Historical Development of Human Services: an Introduction September 28, 2015 Elissa Mattson The Client Paper The Professional of Human Services, work with different type of person. From diverse origins, various ethnic races, which are suffering different, problems in their lives? The various problems that customers face in the human services can identify as follows. Problems need development, and the needs created by some social change, and can influence environmental needs. As also several different social skills used when working with the client. Different strategies to help customers and provide better support and customer support so that problems can be solved best used. When problems occur, we realize that something is wrong and realize that this causes inconvenience to the customer. (Woodside, 2011) Human service professionals should identify where the problems come because sometimes tend to bea unemployment, inadequate housing, or disease of any kind. As has already identified the problem is to do everything possible to find the solution, helping the client to take better care of him. Development theory suggests that human development is a process of continuity and that there are certain stages in the life of the individual to be experienced. (Trotter & Stwartwood 2007) Over lifetime customers have been able to develop difficult situations such as problems, community, culture, work, weather, and even socio-political...
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...Helping Field Summary Lynda McCarthy, Charline Meeks, Debbie Warnke, Marcial Wiggins BSH/305: Historical Development of Human Services: An Introduction August 31, 2014 Mary Newhams Why Professionals Choose the Helping Field Written by Debbie Warnke I believe the reason professionals choose the helping field is because of a sense of accomplishment and the idea of being able to make a difference. Many human service professionals refer to this type of work as a “calling” and having the ability to show an individual or family how to become self-sufficient is a satisfaction that only someone in the helping field can describe. Why Choose the Helping Field Many of the individuals in the helping field are known as “idealists.” They have what is known as a NF (iNtuitive /Feeling) temperament. This temperament gives an individual a sense of purpose and they are known to be more creative, more empathetic, and have a tendency to focus on feelings more than facts. An individual with the NF temperament are often impatient with the business world, policies, and procedures, and are more likely to focus ultimately on the bottom line ( Myers, et al.,1998). Other reasons professionals chose to enter the helping field is because they know someone with a mental illness or addiction, they have other family members that are in the same/similar field, they like to help people that are in high risk situations such as substance...
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...Client Paper Hortencia Gardea BSHS/305 (BSEL1GTGL3) May 17, 2015 Ellen Biros Client problems can lead to many different types of new problems if there not carful. Social workers and Human Resource workers should keep in mind of their skills and training they were educated on so they are able to be implemented to help service in the client’s needs. Most jobs in Human Services are separated into two different types. The first type would be one that works directly with clients and the others provide administrator support for organizations that provide services. Client Paper There are many ranges of problems facing human services dealing with clients and many specific skills that can be used with working with clients. But it takes hard work and dedication to help different types of issues that may arise with a client that involve specific needs. This also takes allot of understanding skills to help break the ice between client and the social workers to determine a better future. There are different professionals that can help point the client towards the right accomplishment and goal settings. The main goal is to help and give guidance. Problems that have Arise with Clients. Many problems in today’s society are at rise in most countries from Veteran’s to child and family issues. Some issues can range also from lack of food, housing, mental and physical illness, alcohol or drug abuse, domestic abuse, or even self-harm as in suicide or other ways a person might hurt...
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...Trends Team A BSHS/305 9/21/2014 Joanne Schrock As we look back over the history of the human service profession, we see growth in strategies, involvement, accessibility, and education. This field has experienced many great changes that have enabled them to be more efficient to the clients and themselves. Human service professionals remain educated and trained to be reliable resources to those who are in need. As trends continue to change, so does the role human service professionals and how they deliver services. There has been quite a change is the role of the client in the helping process. For several years, the client was an inactive receiver of services. Involvement of the client in human service delivery has risen significantly. The client is now actively participating in the helping process. This transformation has required attempts from human service professionals to involve the client in the helping process. Forming a collaborative relationship requires skills that foster a trusting environment. After a connection is present, the client develops into an active participant in evaluating the issue/issues and circumstances, gathering information, establishing a strategic plan, and assessing the course of action. “Consequently, the client shares responsibility for the success or failure of the endeavor” (Woodside, 2011). As the client adopts a new part in the helping process, today’s human service professionals require diverse helping skills. “Advocacy—recognized...
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...Human Service Professionals and Helping Skills Sara Ouellette BSHS/305 May 23, 2016 Cassidy Hawf Human Service Professionals and Helping Skills In our society today there is a great need for helping professionals being able to work with individuals as well as their families and communities. The dysfunction that starts in a single family can spread to affect many people throughout a geographical area. Helping just the one individual sometimes is not the answer because without correcting their surroundings, what you do to help them will be in vain. Once reintroduced to the situation that they had been removed from for treatment or help they will revert to their old ways and behaviors that brought them to you in the first place and thus a vicious cycle will begin. It is important to know your client base and what helping services will work best to get positive results. The Helping Process There are infinite ways of helping people. There are however set practices that all helping professionals learn and will use in their day to day interactions with their clients. There are five stages of the helping process that can be applied to every client: 1. Physical setting and review – Before your client ever arrives you should make sure that your space is inviting and comfortable. It should put your client at ease and make it easier to talk to them. You also will have gone over any files that have been provided to you so that you have a back ground on your client...
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...Trend paper 1/28/15 BSHS/305 Trend paper The human service worker has to be preparing to assist the clients in the best way. The organization has to adapt and accommodate the situation to grow the technologies. The human services future had made impact for economic and political. The key for organizations is to make a strong unique circumstance. There will always be homeless and families in need of help, affordable care act had made lot of changes for homeless and families who are in need, to give them much more help and to be able stand and build their life. The human needs theory is that higher needs cannot be made, if basic needs are not achieved. Basic human needs can be an issue when dealing with client needs and when it cannot be met if the basic needs are not taken care of first. Effective communication skills are one of the most important components for human services professionals and to discuss the critical information and make important decisions. Without effective communication skills, a social worker may not be able to resolve the issue with client. The Affordable Care Act event has impacted the political field for the better position. Medicaid coverage has expanded for many people that where not eligible for Medicaid. Many employees cannot afford the insurance it has been increased by the employer; healthcare has been a big issue for the families with low income. The five trend that make up the future to human services are the political cost increased...
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...Client Paper University of Phoenix BSHS/305 Tammy Gale December 7, 2015 Human service professionals are people who are willing to help people fix their problems and become self-sufficient. There are many different things that the human services professional must know. You must know that all clients are victims. A client is an individual who has a combination of psychological, social, economic, educational, vocational, and spiritual problems. As we go through learning clients and learning the field we are taught that the client will always have more than one problem. If the client comes for only one problem and gets only one problem fixed then the client will not become self-sufficient. The hardest thing for a client is getting help. There are a majority of clients who receive help via referral. During this process the client is referred to the Human Services Delivery System by someone or by themselves. In this case, the client is taking initiative to better their situation. This can be searching for employment or childcare. Involuntary placement in the system is usually done by someone in a school, prison, juvenile facility, or justice center. A client is referred involuntarily when the individual cannot do things or their own or when someone sees something going wrong. In most cases, children who are experiencing child abuse are placed into the Human Services Delivery system as a way to keep the child safe. Inadvertent services are for large populations that are targeted...
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