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HUS1101: HW CHAPTER 2 AND 3

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2) Describe the evolution of human well-being services, from the middle ages to present day by individuals, professionals, and society.

Back in the days, many thought that mental illness was a result of evil spirits. Until the 1500’s The church aids the people in needs. Institutions for the orphans, the poor, the elderlies, and people with disabilities are formed. During the 19th century, changes were occurring with the increasing of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization. It however led to poverty. Public assistance was needed.

3) Describe how Obama-Care’s mission is to aid the well-being of Americans.

Obama-Care also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mission is to aid the well-being of American by reforming the American health care system.

4) Describe how social philosophies were promoted to aid in the well being of clients/society.

Social Philosophies like laissez-faire and social darwinism had impact the aid of well-beings of clients and the society. Laissez-faire is a concept that government will take little responsibility to those in needs. While social darwinism is the belief that the the fittest will survive, but the unfits won’t. These social philosophies negativity impacts the beliefs of human services.

5) Describe how the mental health movement promoted to aid in the well-being of clients/society.

The mental health movement helped the well-being of clients and society with their creation of the National Mental health Act of 1946. The national organization for human services educators form a standard preparation of workers in the human services field.

6)Describe how the human service movement promoted the well-being of clients and society.

The human service movement promoted the well-being of clients and society. Since the 1960, the field had grew by the increasing training programs, and mental health services. During the 1970’s organizations of professional human services are introduced to society.

7) Describe how entitlement benefits (Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare) promote the well-being of individuals/society.

The entitlement benefits promotes the well-being of individuals and society. Medicare promotes well-being of the individuals and society by giving health insurance for the people over the age of 65. Medicaid gives funds to states to help them provide citizens with care of hospitals and medical. While Welfare is a government program that helps the poor and the unemployed.

8) Describe how legislation promotes the well-being of individual/society.

legislation promotes the well-being of individual and society in the 21st century by passing the The Medicare Prescription Drug Act and many more to provide medication for outpatients for people on Medicare, Part D. Legislation also brought more faith-based humans service organizations and agencies.

CHAPTER 3:

Describe how the trends of technology, in the field of human services, are attempting to aid a client’s well-being.

Technology has impacted the human service field. Communications with clients are expanded with the use of technology. Organizing paperwork/ documents are easily managed using technology. It is also used in area of professional development.
2) Describe how technology can promote well-being in professional development for human services and ultimately clients.

Technology can promote the well-being in professional development for human services by the use of programs that helps professionals with problem solving, counseling, crisis counseling, etc. Another way tech is use in human service professional development is the use of podcasting. It’s like a subscription of audio or video on human service worker trainings. Eventually these development is used to promote the well-being of clients.

3) Describe what managed care is, and how it promotes clients well-being.

Manage care is a procedure that is made to manage resources, and the service in the health care and mental health areas. It promotes the well-being of clients because clients also plan the services needed for themselves with the professional.

4) Describe some of the limitations of managed care and how it can impact on well-being.

However, managed care limits the client’s services to the lowest level of care. The professional might consider hospitalization to improve one’s mental health, but the viewer might ask if the client can be treated at home. If a professional recommended the clients to see a therapist for six weeks, the managed care reviewer would say a month is good enough.

5) Describe what service delivery means and how it promotes well-being.

Service delivery is the delivery of the professional to the clients of services. Sevices promotes the well-bring of the clients. Services can be mental health services, disability services, etc. It’s an important task of the professional to provide the best service delivery that they and the agency can.

6) Describe how human service professionals pay attention to various groups in order to promote well-being of specific populations.

Human services pay attention to various groups in order to promote well-being of specific population by having an knowledge of their culture and traditions and beliefs to provide and deliver useful services to the clients. Groups doesn’t just mean ethics groups, but religion, sexual orientation, etc.

7) Describe how what is happening internationally promotes or hinder the well-being of US citizens.

One thing happening internationally is immigration to different countries to improve their own well-being or the families. This led to many people that needed services in the human services field. Another is the increase of population in various developing countries which expanded the services needed for many people. In the US, there are many minorities that needed services provided from the professionals.
8) Describe how the concept of “teaching a man to fish” promotes well-being.

Being a human service worker is not to help the client. It’s to empower the clients to help themselves. We can’t just give them the fish. We need to teach them to fish themselves. This way the well-being of the client would still be well even after the client got discharged.

9) Describe how cultural competency can promote well-being.

The cultural competency promote well-being because the knowledge of different cultures is also part of professional development. Working with different minorities can impact the well-being of people that doesn’t get the opportunities like others do. It’s also nice to have knowledge of different culture personally.

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.

Humans Servuces Hw Chapter 8

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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.

HUS Chapter 9- Code of Ethics

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The Human Services code of ethics initiates, guides and promotes a clinical arena for professional and clients well being. This code of ethics has rules that must be met by each professional and client. The code helps professional’s and clients be in a safe environment were neither of them feel threatened or uncomfortable. The code also helps keep a good professional relationship between the client and worker. It guides the professional on how to react and guide them through certain situations but with limitations. The code initiates the well being of both the professional and clients because it helps both feel in a comfortable environment.

The human service proffesionals responsibility to clients promotes well being because the proffesional is in charge of taking care of his/her client. With the good communication and relationship the proffesional and the client should have, the proffesional should be able to gain the clients trust. The proffessionals responsibility include keeping up with the client out of the office, providing high quality service and etc while also respecting the clients privacy. The proffesional should respect the clients privacy unless it is thought that the clients action may hurt themself and/or others. The proffesionals responsibility to the client promotes well being because the professional should do anything on their hands for the safety of the client; the clients satisfaction.

The human service professional’s responsibility to the community and society also promotes well being. This is because the proffesional should be able to guide the client on how to act in the community. The proffesional should also be able to work with supririors to help the client get the help they need. Also the proffesional must keep an open mind about any culture or practices the client might have. The proffesional should now the clients background in order to help them be better in society.

The human service proffesionals responsibility to colleagues promotes well being for the client. This is done by checking that colleagues follow the code of ethics.  Also colleagues share information with each other that might be helpful for their clients. Collegues work together and contribute to finish the job and help the clients. This promotes well being for the client because they have more eyes on the situation.

The human service professional’s responsibility to the profession promotes well being for the client because it shows dedication to the work. Human services proffesional should try to get papers on time to be able to have on check the client. They should have experience from training and gain experience from th office. They should be able to handle the situations that might come up so it promotes safety to the client.

The human services proffessionals responsibilites to employers promotes well being for the client. The professionals show this by working kind and proffesionaly yo show respect to other employees. They should also maintain a good communication between each other. This promotes well being to the client because they will feel good that they are receiving good care and services.

The human service proffessionals responsibilies to self promotes well being for the client because they show intrest and proffession in doing their work. This also promotes well being for the client because they gain trust in knowing the proffessional knows what they are doing.

The human service proffesionals responsibilities to educators  by showing proffessional intrest. They do this by keeping in mind the code of ethics. This includes not letting emotion come in between the client and his/her situation. Educators should always maintain a proffesional relationship with the client.

The 4 steps of ethical decision making strives to promote well being to the client and society are Identifying the problem, consulting with different colleagues, and choose a  identifying and exploring options and choosing a course of action. These steps promote well being to the client snd society because in order to treat the problem the proffessional has to be open to all posibilities, really understand and know the situation. Also because listening to other persepective and opinions on how to go with the situation can teach the proffesional other ways to deal with the situation.

HUS1101: HW#2 Chapter 9/ETHICS

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

The Code of Ethics is a statement of ethical standards of behavior. It’s a guide to the professional on their roles, rules, responsibilities to their client, themselves employers, and the profession. Different types of profession in the human services field have different types of Code of Ethics. It could be similar but can have different wording and responsibilities even. For example, the Code of Professional Ethics for rehabilitation is different from the Ethics standards for Psychologists. The guides in the Code of Ethics give us an understanding of what is the purpose of their profession and how to carry it

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

The responsibility of the human service professional to the clients is really important. The responsibilities includes the knowledge of the profession’s code of ethics, and their standard of behavior. The responsibility of helping their clients to keep them alway from danger. Human Services professionals are also responsible to have a well knowledge of their client’s culture in making treatment plans, and problem defining to promote the well-being of the client. Another responsibility is that Professionals must “…protect the privacy and confidentiality except when such confidentiality would cause harm to the client or to others…” In other workers conservation with their clients are to be kept within each other unless if workers believes that in the safety of the client or others.
Describe how the human service professional’s responsibility to colleagues promotes well-being for the clients.

Human services professionals has responsibility to their co-workers, just as they do as for their own clients. Statement twenty-four of the Ethic Standards of Human Services Professionals suggests that if a worker sees that his/her co-worker is not following the code of ethics, the worker should talk to his/her co-worker about it because it could not promote the well-beings of his/her clients. If the matter didn’t change the worker should report the behavior of the co-worker to the supervisor.

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

Human Services profession had responsibility to their own profession. One responsibility is that professionals should extend up-to-date and useful ways to increase their professionals strengths to promote the client’s well-being. Another responsibility to the profession is that the workers recognize the breaking point of their professional knowledge and contribute actions within what they know and their skills to their clients.

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

The Code of Ethics also includes the human service professional’s responsibility to the worker themselves. One responsibility is to to committed to advance our own knowledge to serve the clients and society better. Another responsibility includes having personal growth of their attitudes and values towards their clients.

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

There are three statements in the Ethical Standards of Human Services Professionals that states the responsibilities of workers to their employers. Statement 32 states that worker should be truthfully commit to the tasks made from the employer. Statement 34 states that if any conflicts between the responsibilities to the clients or to the employer, both the employer and the worker must work together to resolve the issues and promote the well-being for the clients.

Describe how the human service professional’s responsibility to the community and society promote well-being.

Human Services professionals has responsibilities to the community and the society. Workers should know the laws in the community, the state they are working in, and the federal laws. Another responsibility of the human service professionals to the community and society is that workers should gain knowledge of the traditions and the cultures in the community they are working in and respect those beliefs to promote the well-being of the community and society.

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

Human Services professional’s responsibilities to the educators are really important to promote the well-being for the clients. Educators should give clear response on how the student is doing in the course. This can give the student intakes to how to approach a better promotion of well-being to the clients of the student in the future. Another responsibility of a educator is to have full commitment on teaching the students on promoting well-being of their future clients.

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

There are four stages of ethical decision making. Ethical decision making is when there isn’t a statement or code of ethics that can provide any action to a problem in the human services field. The stages are to resolve the conflict that doesn’t promote the well-being of the client/society. Stage one is to identify the problem. Stage two is to seek advice from your co-workers, supervisors, and experts. Stages three is to use the advice and explore the options. The last stage is to choose the way to resolve the problem or conflict.