Interview with a Human Services Worker I chose to interview my mother. Her name is Barbara Lee and she works for the Riverside County Office of Education. She is an infant teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing. She has been working in her position for about 30 years and she still loves it! The human problems she works with are working with hearing impaired children and their families. There are both parent-child classroom settings and in-home settings. Some of the technologies used are
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a career in Social and Human services is a good job for people who love to help‚ have good compassion‚ interpersonal skills‚and problem solving skills. Social and human services assistants help determine what type of help their clients need‚ work with clients and other social workers‚ to develop a treatment plan‚ and research services‚ such as food stamps and Medicaid‚ that are available to their clients in their communities. Check in with clients to ensure that services are provided appropriately
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Latoya Richardson The Values and Beliefs of Human Services October 11‚ 2010 BSHS 322 Communication for Human Services Mrs. .Amy Donaldson Introduction In order to be a Human Service agent you must have discovered your values and beliefs. When you discover your values and beliefs you are underlying what you can do for your clients‚ what attributes you can offer them‚ and setting up a foundation for providing great care. Values and Beliefs All clinical interviewing is embedded in a system
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Causes and Preventions of Burnout in Human Services Staff BSHS 462 September 9th‚ 2013 Kimberly Eaton Burnout and job satisfaction are two terms that are reliant upon one another. In human services‚ burnout is the emotional exhaustion‚ feeling of failure or underachievement with clients‚ and the general sense of not connecting with the passion for people (Lewis‚ Packard‚ & Lewis‚ 2007). Job satisfaction is a crucial element for most people in respect to burnout. Satisfaction
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the United States is poverty. By sharing theories‚ principles‚ and concepts of human services delivery systems intended for effective interventions‚ the human service field will be better equipped to handle the current crisis and plight of the poor. Introduction Anti-poverty programs are designed‚ selected‚ and implemented in response to different theories about the cause of poverty that justify the human services field and its development of interventions. The definition of poverty and its
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After doing research of careers after obtaining my Human Services degree‚ I found an interest in working for InVision Human Services. In 1992‚ Ruth E. Siegfried established the organization now called InVision Human Services. From 1992 until 2010‚ In Vision was known as Sharp Visions‚ and in November 2010‚ they rebuilt the organization with the name In Vision Human Services to more precisely mirror the creative and visionary qualities that penetrate the kin and the corporate culture. InVision started
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Current Trends In Human Services The current economic and political climate has had a profound affect on the human services fields and has impacted those served in a very real and direct way. The Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA) for example has created such a backlash in the political and economic arenas that it has even caused the United States government to shut down due those who resist and fight its implementation and continues to be a heated debate. The relationship between economic and political
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trends in human services delivery today? The delivery of human services today is that the client and helper work together. The helper focuses on assisting the client to meet their needs. The helper plays a huge role in assisting the client with in a variety of responsibilities. Today‚ human service workers assist the whole person. Clients are empowered to take responsibility for them. Helpers can assist with clients social‚ psychological‚ and economic problems. Human service must ask
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The Individual Human Services Workers Role in Burnout Prevention Casey L. Sheppard Saint Petersburg College Human service professionals face a wide variety of complex and often distressing problems as a regular part of their job. Because of the excessive amount of stressors related to work in this field‚ the profession often takes its toll on ill-prepared workers in the form of burnout. For the purposes of this document‚ a definition of burnout put forth by Dr. Christina Maslach and Dr. Michael
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In the field of Human Services there are a multitude of people that need assistance. However‚ in each target population has their own distinct issues. Examples of these target groups or populations are people with mental illness‚ the homeless‚ and senior citizens. Mental illness is defined as when a person’s mental state is beyond what is considered normal. For instance‚ a person with depression has extreme lows as appose to a mentally healthy person who will bounce back from their emotional low
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