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HUS 1101 HW: Chapter 8 discussion questions on well-being

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1. The client empowerment model for change effectively impacts a clients well-being status by identifying the needs of the individual, determining how to meet the needs,working with other networks for possible assistance, setting up goals and objectives to be reached and identifying any barriers that must be overcome. A professional can implement such things in counseling by giving the client the right, and the role to be in charge of his or her continuous success.

2. A community based agency’s missions and goals promotes well-being and happiness for their clients because it communicates the purpose or role of the agency that can be beneficial for the client.

3. The agency’s organizational chart promotes well-being through the chain of command because it is significant to know the people who work in the departments needed. It sets structure and layers of authority. Identifying the different services they may represent to provide the proper care and or treatment necessary for the client.

4. The referral process is utilized in relating directly to the interaction between other workers, making use of the network. When seeking services for the client the worker can rely on other professionals to locate the needed services. Resulting in the success of the delivery of services.

5. An informal network can aid in the referral and well-being goals because it actually provides the link between the client and the service. The cooperation between the two would result in effective referral, such as family and friends to provide needed support.

6. Documentation and paper work requirements aid in the well-being of the client because it is used when transmitting information about the client to the new service because that will allow the agency to properly plan the correct services.

7. Stress and “burn out” of the worker can impact the clients well-being because the worker isn’t able to provide the best service. Resulting in a poor work performance that wouldn’t help better the client.

8. Professional development activities can impact the well-being of the worker and service delivery to the client because then their work performance and ideas continually modify. Its a positive approach to address the challenges of work. They get positive reinforcements and support.

9. A human service worker can utilize client empowerment as a tool in the well-being of a client because its a team of professionals and others to work build skills to facilitate their own change.

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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 goal of this model is to empower the client ensuring them that a change can be made. Having someone believe in them can result in them believing in them selves. Human service professionals jobs are to support the client as well as improving their lives.

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

Community based agencies or organization professional workers are very involved and hands on in the community in which they are assigned. The community they are assigned to influences the way they operate. Developing strategies such as Community Mapping, helps professionals connect to the lives of the citizen’s in the community. They promote overall well-being in the client as well as the community.

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

The chain of command are the levels of authority in an agency which helps people understand the structure of an agency and how its works. This promotes well-being because departments or individual’s work closely together to provide the best quality work to the client.

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

The referral process is a very crucial/ important part of a human services professional responsibility. The human service worker is seeking the best work for a client making sure the services needed is provided, putting the client’s well-being and best interest first.

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

Human services professionals developed a system to build a file of informal network for referral purposes. A connection between individuals and agencies (social services help aid the client). Services are organized by the well-being of the client, The clients needs whether physical, social, or emotional (building a data base of information about the client).

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

Documentation and paper work are the recorded information of the client (the steps, the process, the issues, etc.) It Keeps track of the client as well as the professionals work. Permanent documentation is good for the clients well-being.

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

Human services professionals encounter with a lot of challenges throughout their work day. The decisions they make affect their work, clients ( types of services he client will receive), and agencies. Workers often stress over and are overwhelmed their case loads, allocation of their resources (time), not being able to spend enough time with each client. Clients need hands on professional work to aid them and if it’s not given it can be harmful towards the client progressing in life.

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 impact well-being for the client as well as the professional helping them gain skills and knowledge of certain situations to provide the best quality work for the client.

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

Human services workers can use client empowerment as a tool in the well-being because empowering the client allows them to take control of their own lives solving their own problems and struggles.

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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 goal of this model is to instill support and empowerment in the client so they can believe in themselves. A human service worker would do this by simply looking for causes that they want to support that would better the lives of their clients.

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

The mission and goals make the clients aim to achieve their goals and see the possibilities that are out there for them. It helps the client and helper better understand the client and for them to work out future issues on their own.

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

Organizational charts and chains of command are both helpful notions to demonstrate a structure of an agency. The organizational chart shows information flow,services and staff while chain of command show lines of authority. This helps the client’s well-being because all of the information is neatly organized and easy to understand.

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

Human service workers sole purpose is to help people and assist them in their needs. Sometimes a certain person isn’t the best suited for the job and believes that someone else would be better to aid them or the client believes someone else can assist them. Through referrals, the client is pointed to someone else or another agency that can better meet their needs.

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

Informal network can aid in the referral and well-being goals of a client by using personal networks which uses people who know the individual well can talk and also reach out to others who can assist in getting a referral, an example would be social clubs or even churches.

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

Paperwork requirements aid in the well-being of clients because it provides a permanent record which other professionals can view and see the client’s history whether they are currently working with them or for future references. It directs the helper on what exactly the client needs.

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 clients well-being because the worker’s whole objective is to help client’s and support them, because of burnout there are negative affects on their work environment and helping process. If a helper is stressed or burned out their whole perspective is altered which cripples them on helping out the client.

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 develop new skills and gain new knowledge that is helpful in aiding their clients. If the worker is furthering their skills and knowledge they can be more beneficial for their clients and be more successful in their process.

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

A human service worker can utilize client empowerment as a tool in the well-being of a client by supporting them and allowing them to make their decisions independently. Once they see that they are equipped to take control over their life they will begin to know how to deal with certain situations that occur in their life.

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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.

One important duty of the human service professional is to promote change to impact the client’s well-being status. The client empowerment model focuses on aiding clients to make their own plans, and their own changes. The professional might implement the model in the counseling session with a teenager by asking, “Had you thought of how you going improve in the relationship of your parents?” This way the teenager can make their own agenda to change the well-being of him/her.

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

The community-based agency’s mission statement is a written document that indicates the purpose and principles of the agency. It is publicly viewable. It answers many questions an client might have or a community might have. For example; “What does this agency do?” The principles made to promotes the well-being and the happiness for their clients. One example of the principles would be that the agency would be well-informed and not make rapid decisions for the best to their clients.

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

The organization chart of an agency gives us a look on not just who is in charge or the chain of command (offices, departments) but what groups work closely together. It tells us how the information get passes along, which department the professionals report to when likes if they need of funds.

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

The referral process is used because of many possible reasons. One reason is that the helper feels that another agency or another professional can impact the well-being of the client more. The first thing the helper would do in the process of referral is that the helper evacuates the client’s dilemmas and needs. The helper then provides the contact between the needed service and the client. Making referrals is difficult, especially for a rookie professional. A new professional might not have many contacts with professionals outside of his or her own work place. It is good to build that as you work for the client’s well-being.

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

An informal network is when connections are made by the histories of the agency co-working and personal friendships between the helpers, etc. This aids in the referral to be more supportive from both side, there referrer and the referee even though it much more difficult. It takes more time and effort in building the connections at first.

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

Paperwork and documentation requirements can aid in the well-being of clients. This helps the professional to have an knowledge about the clients in case a referral happened. It also provides information for the evaluation process for funding from the insurances companies or the state. Most workers today have an intensive amount of paperwork to do. It is also likely to fill out more than two paper work with the same information. Professionals are likely have to bring this paperwork home and work on them. Professionals usually have to choose between the time and effort going towards the clients or the desk work.

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

The burnout and the stress of the worker have a negative effect on the client’s well-being. The burnouts arise when professionals has many pressures at work, lost interest of working, etc. It is a really challenge job sometimes. One way to not feel the loss of interest in work environment is professional development. Going back to school for a higher degree can open up more path in the human services field.

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

Like mentioned in my answer of question seven, professional development like going back to school for an higher degree can open more paths in the field. Another activities includes workshops provided by the organization can gives the helper more information of clients’ needs.

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

The client’s empowerment is used as a tool in the well-being of a client by giving the client strengths to solve their own problems and their struggles. Human service workers should use this tool in every single appointment or meeting with a client.

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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 effectively impacts a client’s well-being status because it gives them a chance for change. The professional gets involved to respond to the specific needs of the community. Another context is for the client’s to participate in community organizing which means to try and create or promote change. The last context is empowerment which means to give the clients skills to stand up for themselves and make their own change.

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

Community-based agency’s mission and goals promotes well-being by helping the client to understand the potential they have. To help the clients better themselves and understand how they can work to solve issues each client has.

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

Organizational chart promotes well-being through the chain of commands because it helps work together showing the authority the agency has the information it gives and accountability. And some of these different departments work together to better fulfill a task.

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

Human service professional need to find out the clients needs and problems. Also to find out what the other agency’s provide in services in order to know if it would match with the clients.

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

Informal network can aid in the referral and well-being goals because personal networks such as individuals in this context who know the client well can talk and also reach out to other people who can help in the referral, including those in churches, social clubs etc.

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

Documentation and paperwork aid in the well-being of the client because it lets agency’s know the client’s history. Also includes information of interviews, social history, medical, educational, and mental health records. It also documents time spent by the agency on the client, referrals and case notes and etc.

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

Stress and “burnout” affect the impact on clients because they don’t get the full help from the professional that they might need. They might not get the professional’s full attention and than will be not respond positively or think well of the helpers.

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 can impact the well-being of the worker because if they decide to develop and improve skills and to learn knew knowledge of the client than they serve an effective service to the clients. This impacts service delivery to the client because when they learn knew things about the clients because things change they can better assess the client than and have a greater impact.

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

Using client empowerment as a tool in the well-being of a client is good because you are giving the client the power and encouragement. Giving them the power to establish their agenda in life.