HUS Chapter 1

1.    Some problems in living are people being talked about in the media. For example people who have physical or mental issues and those who are victims of crime and abuse etc. These people are sometimes humiliated on TV, basically being exposed for who they are and what they have done. Their well-being can and will be affected because they might not be happy or as comfortable in their life as they were once before.

2.     “human services addresses problems in living, with a focus on both the individual or group and the situation or event” Ways that humans services can aid in the aid of the well being of the clients is by not by trying to fix them, but why helping them help themselves. The point is that you cant help someone that doesn’t want to be helped because then in the end you are just wasting theirs and your time.

3.     Utilizing and interdisciplinary approach within the work of a human services professional can aid to the well being of a client/society by helping the client in all the ways that they may need help. Human service workers learn how to understand the client better which leads to the client coming out better then the way they came in. You cant help someone if your don’t understand them or know their feelings. Understanding is key.

4.      Social care, social control and rehabilitation contributes to the well being of an individual. Social care helps those who need it and have no one else to turn to. Social care is something that is given to people who want it but necessarily don’t need it but don’t want to help themselves so they seek it from somewhere else. Rehabilitation helps people who have previously have a problem and are still working on fixing it so that they don’t relive the situation again.

5.  The relationship between the worker and the client can be an integral part in the well- being of an client, because the relationship you form with your client can determine weather or not they trust you or not. If they do they will allow you to help them and they will tell you everything you need to know so that you can. But if the client does not trust you then you will get nowhere because the client feels no need to tell you anything.

6.     The clinical/professional job tasks the human services professional performs in aiding the well-being of the client is that the worker makes the client feel in a safe place using a trick that in the end the client feels that the worker helped them a lot and made the problems go away when really the client helped themselves. They just needed to realize they needed the help.

7.     Being a generalist human service worker aids in the well–being of those they serve because they are able to do many different things not just one thing. Meaning that they can work with more then one type of person, they can work with many. Having this can better help the client since the worker knows more or less what they are going through.

8.     The clinical/professional may steer the client to be self-sufficient because they have learned to help themselves and not have to depend on other people to help them. They are able to do things on their own. They have more self esteem and confidence and believe in themselves more then they have before.

9.     The human services delivery system provides alameda with social care, social control, and rehabilitation in order to create a path of well-being in her life. They gave her many opportunities to help herself. For example they offered programs to her. Since she had a child they tried to help her with that and see what were the best things that would best help the child. They refused to let her relapse into a world where she once was so they helped her as much as they could.

10.     Evidence based practice knowledge can be utilized by the professional to aid in the clients well being is that they try to give them options and support so that they may better the life that they have. They don’t want there client to go back to where they once were in life because then everything would have been for nothing.