1. Describe how the client empowerment model for change effectively impacts a client’s well-being status? Include what the professional would do to implement the model in the counseling session.

The client empowerment model is made for the clients could be able to determine their own problems and needs.  Professional will find a place to improve for example a city and they will improve the environment and the way the client lives.

2. Describe how a community-based agency’s mission and goals promotes well-being and happiness for their clients.

A community-based agency’s mission and goals promotes well-being and happiness for their client because it helps people to start to talk about their problems to other people. It is important because it improves the client’s environment and it also gives the professional new links to different organizations.

3. Describe how an agency’s organization chart promotes well-being through the chain of command.

An agency’s organization chart promotes well-being through the chain of command because it helps to keep different departments organized from top to bottom. The ones in the top control the resources and the actions that are made. It is also a way of sharing and dividing responsibilities.

4. Describe how the referral process is utilized in relation to the client’s well-being.

The referral process can happen for any reasons for example, the client may ask for it to speed up the process or because the client is suicidal. The referral process is to help the client with their problems and needs by linking them with other professionals that will be able to help them.  The referral process is utilized in relation to the client’s well-being because it is a way that the client will get greater help.

5. Describe how an informal network can aid in the referral and well-being goals.

An informal network can aid the referral and well-being goals because it could provide the client with needed support. Informal network is outside of agencies or organizations. Informal networks include personal friendships of professionals, family, and friends which provide support and help for the client.

6. Describe how documentation and paperwork requirements aid in the well-being of the client.

Documentation and paperwork are very important and should be handled properly. Documentation and records are important information about the client that the professional might have to read later in the future. The more organized and detailed the record the more the professional will be able to help the client with their problem. Documentation and paperwork requirements aid the well-being of the client because it will help to know their background which will help professionals know their needs and problems.

7. Describe how stress and “burnout” of the worker can impact the client’s well-being.

Stress and “burnout” of the worker can impact the client’s well-being in a negative way. When the professional is experiencing stress and burnout they are less likely to help the client the way they need to be helped. Symptoms of burnout are when the professional doesn’t want to go to work, has a negative attitude about work, lower the quality of their work, and doesn’t get involved with the client as they should. Therefore, the client will not be receiving the help they need.

8. Describe how professional development activities can impact the well-being of the worker. Describe how it also impacts service delivery to the client.

Professional development activities can impact the well-being of the worker because it helps the worker become more engaged in helping the client. Professional development is for the professional to learn and develop new ways to help the client rather than the same way all the time. Professional development impacts the service delivery to the client because the worker will be more involved with the client’s needs. The professional will also know different and new ways that they can help the client.

9. Describe how a human service worker can utilize client empowerment as a tool in the well-being of a client.

The human service worker can utilize client empowerment as a tool in the well-being for the client because it is a way to build skills to show them how and what they could do to help change themselves. The client will learn to be more self-sufficient and fix their own problems with the skills they learned from human service workers that used the empowerment tool.

1. Describe how the Human Services Code of Ethics initiates, guides and promotes a clinical arena for professional and client well-being.

The Human Services Code of Ethics initiates, guides and promotes a clinical arena for the professional and client well-being because it helps give professionals a guide of how to handle dilemmas that may occur with a client. The code of ethics guides the behavior of the professional. This promotes the well-being of the professional and the client because it will guide the professional to better help and protect the client.

2. Describe how the human service professional’s responsibility to clients promotes well-being.

The human service professional’s responsibility to clients promotes well-being because the professional discuses goals for the clients. The professional should always treat the client with respect and protect their privacy. The professional should keep the confidentiality unless the client is going to harm themselves or others. This promotes the clients well-being because the professional will help them to be safe and help them achieve their goals.

3. Describe how the human service professional’s responsibility to the community and society promotes well-being for the client.

The human service professional’s responsibility to the community and society are to know and be aware of the laws including local, state, and federal laws. Professionals should be up to date with events and programs that could benefit the client. Human services professionals should never discriminate anyone in anyway and should have knowledge of different backgrounds and cultures. This promotes the clients well-being because the professional will be able to have knowledge on diverse cultures and will better understand the client. Therefore, the professional will be able to work with the client better.

4. Describe how human service professional’s responsibility to colleagues promotes well-being for the client.

Human service professional’s responsibility to colleagues promotes well-being for the client by the professional talking to their colleague and figuring out what is the best treatment plan for the client. The professional could only tell a colleague about a client if the client is in danger or if the client is putting others in danger. If a professional sees that a colleague is behaving unethical the professional should talk to the colleague and if the behavior continues the supervisor should be informed. This will promote the clients well-being because it will protect the client.

5. Describe how the human service professional’s responsibility to the profession promotes well-being for the client.

Human service professional’s responsibility to the profession is to continue to improve their knowledge and develop new treatments. Professional’s should look for appropriate consultation for they could talk about the dilemmas they have had with their clients and know how to deal with them better next time. It will help the well-being of the client because the professional will have greater knowledge and will be able to help the client with better and new treatment plans.

6. Describe how human service professional’s responsibility to employers promote well-being for the client.

Human service professional’s responsibility to employers are to work with the employers to maintain the conditions for high quality services. The professional should work with the employer and clarify any doubts or questions. This will promote the well-being of the client by increasing the confidence in the employer and feeling secure. The employer will also know how to give high quality services to the client.

7. Describe how human service professional’s responsibility to self promotes well-being for the client.

Human service professional’s responsibility to self are to be aware of their own background, culture, and personality. This will help the well-being of the client because the professional will not have conflict with the clients background, culture, and personality. Professional’s should always be up to date and learning new skills to better benefit the client.

8. Describe how the human service professional’s responsibility to educators promotes well-being for the client.

Human service professional’s responsibility to educators should follow the professional conduct standards which are put by institutions such as AAUP, ACA, APA, and many more. They should also always be aware and learn new developments that are occurring. Educators should have the capacity to teach in order for the client could receive the latest treatments by the professional.

9. Describe the four stages of ethical decisions making. Indicate how it strives to promote well-being to the client/society.

The four stages of ethical decisions making are identify the problem, consult with colleagues or experts, identify and explore options, and choose a course of action and act. Identifying the problem is putting all the information together and trying figure out what the problem is. Consulting with colleagues or experts will help to solve the problem because of different options and advises will be given. Identifying and exploring options will help to come up with different ideas that will give the client the desire results. Choosing a course of action and acting on it means finding the solution that will benefit the client the most. These steps will promote the well-being of the client/society because the treatment has been given a lot of thought for the professional could best treat the client.

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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.