...Week 2 DQs and Summary Why is investing in 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...
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...Client Paper BSHS 305 Brenda Schramm Client Paper The client of human services can be defined by the nature of the problems that exist in their individual, family or group situation. Those individuals and their problems are the reason human services exist from the start. Problems are a part of everyday life, they can come and go and be major or minor. In understanding this essential part of human service, the helper can fully understand what exactly can help the client and what helping skills can be utilized. In this paper, I will discuss the range of problems facing these clients and what helping skills can be used by the helper in order to help the client. When problems exist that causes a client to experience trouble or discomfort it is essential that human service professionals are able to identify those problems and provide a course of action to resolve those problems. Problems can be described as a situation, event, or condition that is troublesome for the client. There are five ways to think about a client’s situation in terms of problem identification, developmental and situational problems, hierarchical needs, needs created by societal change and environmental influences. The developmental perspective theorizes that individuals engage in certain tasks or activities at different points in their lives. These developmental stages occur from the day an individual is conceived until the day of their death. It is based on a study by Erik H. Erikson...
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...Client Paper Teresa Hunt BSHS/305 8-16-14 Amy Barker Client Paper Identifying a client’s problem is a crucial part of the human service worker’s job. The entire purpose of the client coming in is to address a need that is unmet. Before the helper can even begin to plan a solution, they use one of five ways to identify the problem: developmental problems, situational problems, hierarchical needs, and problems that stem from changes in society and the environment. Once the helper knows what the problem is, the communication is a crucial skill to have. Developmental theorists see life as a series of milestones that occur from birth until death. We all go through every stage but the ways people experience them may vary. One’s values, beliefs and childhood experiences also play a role in how a person goes through stages. A developmental model is useful when the helper has a client whose problem is considered deviant, such as criminal activities, like acts of violence, or mental illness. Situational problems are the result of violent crimes, accidents, major changes in life, such as a move to a new city or unemployment, and natural disasters. All humans may face a situational problem at some point in their lives. The result is problems that may be long or short term. Unemployment is a common situational problem today. It has a drastic impact on a person’s ability to provide necessities such as food, shelter and clothing for themselves and their family. ...
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...Helpers in the human service field are tasked with helping unique individuals with unique problems. It is important that a helper be able to identify the types of problems that a client can experience. Understanding which type or types of problems a client is facing will aid the helper in providing assistance to the client. It is necessary for a helper to possess effective communication skills which will foster a strong helper client environment. The first of the five problems facing human service clients is, developmental. "...experts in developmental psychology suggest that human development is a continuous process and that there are certain phases and stages that individuals experience during the life span (Trotter & Startwood, 2007)." This means that if for some reason a child missies one of these milestones of development, certain issues could arise in adulthood. An example that most are familiar with, is the connection between crawling, speech, and fine motor skills. The act of crawling, and exploring the world from this perspective is important to the childes development. Another example is socializing a child. When a child is raised strictly within the house hold with no contact with other children, there is a lack of development in the child's social skills. A deficit in these skills could hinder the child as an adult in interacting with other children. The second problem facing human service clients is, situational. Situational problems are the result...
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...Why enter the helping field Introduction to Human Services 09/22/2014 University of Phoenix Those working in human service have specialized training, whether earned through school or on the job, as a helping professional. You could hold a variety of positions, whether in residential care, correctional facilities, homeless shelters and food banks, substance abuse programs, organizations dedicated to children and families, poverty and employment services, child and elder care operations, mental health agencies and domestic violence efforts. Your role may include helping others obtain services, monitoring and keeping records, organizing or leading group activities, assisting clients in mastering everyday living skills and modeling healthy behaviors for residents or clients. For people like Amy and her coworkers, the possibilities and opportunities are endless. Most human services jobs are paraprofessional, meaning not clinical or medical. Common positions, such as childcare workers, activities coordinators and in-home staff, don't require years of extensive education. Often, paraprofessionals are part of a team that includes professional social workers, psychiatrists or doctors Despite the rewards, there are real challenges for those working in human services. When you enter the field, there is significant pressure on you to develop appropriate boundaries with those you help. It's an important balancing act that everyone must walk. Your supervisor will help you learn how...
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...TO: All Employees FROM: Zachary Robertson, Administrator DATE: July 2, 1976 SUBJECT: Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California As human service professionals, the ruling of the Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California is very important to the ethical code we currently practice. By ruling in favor of Tarasoff, the court now implements the duty to warn and the duty to protect. Directly: “The Court stated that when a therapist determines, or pursuant to the standards of his profession should determine, that his patient presents a serious danger of violence to another, he incurs an obligation to use reasonable care to protect the intended victim against such danger.” The discharge of this duty may require you to take one or more steps, depending on the nature of the case. Thus, it may call for you to warn the intended victim or others likely to apprise the victim of the danger, to notify the police, or to take whatever other steps are reasonably necessary under the circumstances. This legislation not only affects the human service’s code of ethics, but also our decision making process. The following will provide, in greater detail, what that means to you. Human Services Code of Ethics The primary functions of our code of ethics are to establish guidelines for professional behavior and to assist members of the profession in establishing a professional identity. The Tarasoff case seemingly presents limitations to our current code of ethics...
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...Kendra Manning Ethical Decision-Making Scenarios Worksheet For each scenario, discuss what the helper should do or should not have done. Support your answer with statements from the ethical standards for human service professionals (BOX 9.6 in Ch. 9 of the text) that provide guidance for each issue the helper faces. Your response must be thorough to demonstrate understanding of the ethical standards. Write in complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. |Roseanne is a social worker with two preschool-aged children. Wanda, one of Roseanne’s clients, is a single parent who also has a | |preschool-aged child. Wanda has been unable to find work since she was laid off from her position at a daycare center that allowed | |her to bring her young son to work with her. She tells Roseanne that she is desperate for work, but even if she could get a job, | |she would not be able to afford childcare. Roseanne’s own daycare provider has just announced that she will be moving out of state | |at the end of the month. Roseanne is considering offering Wanda a job as her daycare provider. | |Answer: | | | | ...
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...Helping and How to do it Rebecca Harshman BSHS305 Rachel Ritchie For this paper in particular we will be discussing the things problems that are faced by human services clients. In contrast, we will also discuss the coping skills that are offered to them to help them address the problems that they face. I think one of the first things that the clients can face is even finding the services within their community to help them with the issues that they are facing. Whether the issue is that the only places near them do not accept their insurance or there is no place local to them. Sometimes there are places that will accept people with low-income and no insurance but it is dependent on whether or not they have received any government funding or community aid to assist with the mental health needs of those local to them. As budgets change, this too can change and cause some to lose the help that they have finally had the strength to try and get. Other issues that could be occurring could be related to the stigma that is often associated with a large number of mental health issues, this might even keep some from seeking much needed assistance. Many people think that people with mental health issues, whether it is depression, bipolar, anxiety, or even Attention Deficit Disorder, claim that these individuals are just lazy and trying to avoid doing what people should be doing, they do not understand that these individuals sometimes struggle just to make it through what...
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...In this society, people are not always capable in meeting their own needs due to many factors such as poverty, lack of education, disabilities and many more. Human services workers are people who target individuals , group, communities that requires help with improving their way of living, with decision making, with work, staying sober and or starting fresh in their new lives. When working in this field you meet clients with different needs, different necessities, different races in different culture. Each individual faces different problems, it can range from people who is suffering from a mental disability, physical disability, verbally abused, physical issues, alcohol abused, drug abused, depression, addiction, people who are victims of rape, who are traumatized or people who needs help in coping. In this profession you can meet a lot of families with different kind of issues too, it can also range from communication issues, divorce, grief, parenting, suicide, and many more. When a helper is involved with a client, the first thing the helper needs to do is to listen carefully to what the client is saying. And when you're already at it the second thing you need to do is to gain their trust and make them feel that you are reliable and they can trust you with their private issues and they will know that you can help them in solving their problem, exchange messages or ideas to understand each other's perception, communication is the key to success so try to make a connection...
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...University of Phoenix Material Foundations of Human Services Worksheet Answer, in a 50- to 100-word response, each of the following questions: 1. Identify the four themes of human services. • Problems in living: human beings are not always able to meet their own needs and human services has developed in response to the need. • The growing number of problems in the modern world: Human services has emerged in response to the growth in humans problems in our modern world. • Self-sufficient: empower clients to make decisions and assume responsibility for their actions. • Social care, social control, and rehabilitation: assisting clients to meet their social needs who cannot provide for themselves and whoever once able to live independently becomes unable to function socially, physically, or psychologically. 2. Identify professional disciplines that influence human services. Professional disciplines that influence human services are: mental hospital, social philosophies, probation and jail, and treatment of people with mental illness, child welfare. These have been influent on human services. The disciplines allows human services professionals to understand how different aspects of culture and life affect individual (according to text book) 3. How have societal viewpoints concerning mental illness or health influenced human services over the past three centuries? Over the past three centuries, The societal...
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...Problems with Human Services Clients and the Skills to Use to Help Them Marc L. Person BSHS/305 University of Phoenix November 11, 2014 Problems with Human Services Clients and the Skills to Use to Help Them Human Services clients can face obstacles/problems of all kinds. The term client can describe a person, a family, or a group of people in a particular area or neighborhood. The Human Services “Helper” will need to develop many different skills in order to service each client within such diverse echelons. The Problem Chain Clients enter the human service delivery system as individuals with many different perspectives such as psychological, biological, cultural, financial, educational, vocational, and spiritual elements. These elements include life experiences such as family, friends, health, school, work, legal status, residence, safety and security, finances, play, well-being, and personal accomplishments. These perspectives are assimilated into the individual to create the whole person that the human service professional experiences. There are a few possible theories that are used to define the problems and difficulties that individuals face. The developmental theory approaches problems from the life span perspective that describes them as events or crisis that have happened within a lifetime. The situational perspective describes problems that have happened in one instance or timeframe. Meeting basic human needs, both physical and mental, is another method...
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...Client Paper Faith Miller BSHS/305 12/13/2014 Catherine Jenkins Client Paper Faith Miller BSHS/305 12/13/2014 Catherine Jenkins The term client has many meanings, in some instances, clients are indviduals, in others the client may be a small group such as a family, or even a larger population such as the residents of a geographic area. Finally, in defining the client, we explore the experiences of getting help from the clients perspective. Sometimes it is difficult for human service professionals who themselves, have never been clients to understand thourghly what it is like to ask for and receive services. The range of problems facing human services clients is an important consideration in defining the client. Problems can come about in many ways such as the developmental theory which approaches problems from the life span perspective and defines then in terms of life crises or tasks that occur during a lifetime. Another would be the situational perspective, which describes problems that occur from accidents and other traumatic points in time. Meeting human needs, both physical and psychological is another approach to explaining the problems that individuals encounter. One theory is that social change has a primary effect on the problems that individuals experience. Lastly, culture may be a critical factor in understanding the problems an individual or group experiences and may present challenges to the human service professional to consider its influence...
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...Case Scenario Tosha Hawes BSHS/305 2/17/2015 Instructor: Angela Murray Case Scenarios If I was John’s case manager, I would first set up a psychological assessment to see if he is capable of taking care of himself. I would try to contact family members who may be able to assist with supporting John. I would research different agencies and find either halfway houses or group homes where he can live during the winter months, where he can get therapy, food, and his shelter needs are met. I would try to find him vocational training as well that he may benefit from. John’s outlook on receiving help will affect his ability to get his needs met because if he does not see anything wrong with his environment then he will be reluctant to accept help. I would try to process with John the importance of identifying his problem of living situation. John won’t be able to address his higher order needs if he does not meet his basic needs like food, rest, shelter, water, protection, security, acceptance, love and his self esteem needs as well. (Woodson & McClam 2012) According to the classroom text, people who get little acceptance or respect from others will have difficulty involving themselves in activities that will lead them to self-actualization, meaning with the outlook John has on receiving help will cause him to not gain the skills he need to eventually provide and meet his own needs. References Woodside & McClam (2012). An Introduction to Human Services, (7th ed.)...
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...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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...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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