Chapter 1: Questions on well-being

  1. Describe problems in living and how individuals experience these problems in terms of their sense of well-being.

Problems in living is when a person doesn’t have the ability to provide a healthy lifestyle for themselves. Problems in living occurs to people of different types of age including people that have mental disabilities, people who have moved to a new environment such as immigrants. People that have been through traumatizing situations for example people that have been abused, people that have been in war, people that have deathly illness, and many more. Individuals experience these problems by not being able to get out the negative situations or environments they are in. If someone lives in an environment where everyone consumes drugs that person is prone to consume drugs too.

  1. Describe problems in living and how individuals experience these problems in terms of their sense of well-being.

Human Services networking aid in the well-being of clients because organizations that have the same goal of helping people come together with Human Services. This helps provide the well-being of clients because the organizations work together and are able to come up and discover better solutions for the clients.

  1. Describe how utilizing an interdisciplinary approach within the work of a human service professional can aid to the well-being of a client/society.

Sociology, psychology, and anthropology are the interdisciplinary studied by Human Service professionals to aid the well-being of the client and/or society. Sociology is the study of the societies such as the race, or economic statues and how it affects the people that live in the society. Psychology is the study of how the human mind works and behaves. Anthropology is the study of cultures and their development. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach within the work of Human Services professionals can aid to the well-being of both the client and society because it helps to further understand the background of the client. Therefore, understanding the client more will help the Human Service professional help them more efficiently.

  1. Describe how social care, social control and rehabilitation contributes to the well-being of an individual? Society?

Social care contributes to the well-being of the individual because it helps the people that don’t have the ability to take care of themselves. Social car will go for young children, very old people, and people with disabilities. Social control is when people that are able to take care of themselves fail to do so. Social control helps people that have broken the laws or have shown inappropriate behavior. Rehabilitation is when someone was once functioning properly and taking care of themselves, but now is not able to take care of themselves. For example if someone suffered an accident and can’t take care of themselves now rehabilitation will help that person go back to functioning before the accident.

  1. Describe how the relationship between the worker and client can be an integral part in the well-being of a client.

The relationship between the worker and client is an important part in the well-being of the client because the client will trust the worker more and feel more comfortable. Once the client feels comfortable talking to the worker, the worker will be able to help the client out more to reach the clients goals.

  1. Describe the clinical/professional job tasks the human service professional performs in aiding the well-being goal(s) of the client.

The job tasks human services professionals perform in aiding for the well-being of the client are self-sufficiency for the client could make their own decisions. Social care to help people who can’t take care of themselves. Social control for the people that have broken the law and behave inappropriate. Rehabilitation for the people that suffered a period of time and weren’t able to take care of themselves and need to go back to the way they were before. Human service professionals also have to learn about the clients environment to be able to understand the client and build a relationship.

  1. Describe how being a generalist human service worker aids in the well-being of those they serve.

Being a generalist human service worker means to interview the client, find out what the client needs help in, diagnosis, give them therapy and follow up with them. Generalist use the micro system which is the people that are involved with the client’s life. They also use the macro system which is the environment the client lives in. Generalist human service works aid in the well-being of the clients because they analyze them and make a treatment plan and follow up with them.

  1. Describe how the clinical/professional may steer the client to be self-sufficient.

The clinical/professional steers the client to be self-sufficient by giving them the power of making their own decisions and assume the consequences of the decisions they have made. They also give the client help of making their own decisions for they could soon take control of their life.

  1. Describe how the human service delivery system provides Alameda with social care, social control, and rehabilitation in order to create a path of well-being in her life.

Alameda has had a tough life since a young girl. Barbara LaRosa, human service professional helped Alameda with social care, social control, and rehabilitation. Alameda was provided with social care by being offered to continue going to school and finish her education. She didn’t have a social control because she didn’t break any laws. Ms. LaRosa offered Alameda rehabilitation after Anne’s birth, but Alameda didn’t take it and went back to work right away.

10. Describe how evidence based practice knowledge can be utilized                                     by the professional to aid in the client’s well-being.

Evidence based practice knowledge can be utilized by the professional to aid in the client’s well-being by encouraging the client to make their own decisions and be self sufficient. For the client could live a better and healthier lifestyle in the future.