Problems Facing Human Services Clients and Skills That Can Be Used to Help Them
Gloria Payan
BSHS/305
May 25, 2015
JILL RAICHEL
Problems Facing Human Services Clients and Skills That Can Be Used to Help Them
Human’s services clients are faced with a variety of problems ranging from a simple as the basic needs food, clothing, and shelter to the more complicated problems such as recognizing there is a problem and a seeking help for it, drugs or alcohol addiction, mental or physical abuse, disabilities, lacking educational, child, adult and elderly care, domestic abuse, incarceration, and many others. A human services professional should posses and acknowledged the many different skills available and select the appropriate skill for …show more content…
They are willing to customize, disregard or reassess their approaches to the needs of the client when they meet with unexpected situations. Responsibility and Commitment is important because human’s services professionals have to follow a set of ethical principles to present to the client what to expect from the professional and to assure the client that the human servicer professional will work to the best of his/hers ability to accomplish acts in the best infest of the client. A client should expect honesty form the professional, expecting for the professional to answer questions or in practicing only what he or she is train to do. A human services professional should have “Self-Awareness” they need to know who they are and what they stand for because it will affect what they do and how they help others. Developing self-awareness is process of learning about oneself by continually exploring one’s values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and being aware of stereotypes, biases, and cultural and gender …show more content…
Human service professionals may also experience a demanding and reluctant client, who might think he deserve more than what is being provided to them or are reluctant to accept assistance. The professional must set boundaries and teach the client to be self-reliant while maintain their trust and striving to improve their quality of life. While in the helping process the helping professional must be mindful that the client most likely will have more than one problem, clients problems are rarely one issue, the human service professional should always expect that there will more likely be a diversity of problems to face. As stated before there is likely more than one problem but it would be wisely to identify what might be considered as the root of the problem. For example a child that keeps running away from home or foster homes, could it be because abuse or neglect. The problem needs to be addressed and corrected to help the
Gloria Payan
BSHS/305
May 25, 2015
JILL RAICHEL
Problems Facing Human Services Clients and Skills That Can Be Used to Help Them
Human’s services clients are faced with a variety of problems ranging from a simple as the basic needs food, clothing, and shelter to the more complicated problems such as recognizing there is a problem and a seeking help for it, drugs or alcohol addiction, mental or physical abuse, disabilities, lacking educational, child, adult and elderly care, domestic abuse, incarceration, and many others. A human services professional should posses and acknowledged the many different skills available and select the appropriate skill for …show more content…
They are willing to customize, disregard or reassess their approaches to the needs of the client when they meet with unexpected situations. Responsibility and Commitment is important because human’s services professionals have to follow a set of ethical principles to present to the client what to expect from the professional and to assure the client that the human servicer professional will work to the best of his/hers ability to accomplish acts in the best infest of the client. A client should expect honesty form the professional, expecting for the professional to answer questions or in practicing only what he or she is train to do. A human services professional should have “Self-Awareness” they need to know who they are and what they stand for because it will affect what they do and how they help others. Developing self-awareness is process of learning about oneself by continually exploring one’s values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and being aware of stereotypes, biases, and cultural and gender …show more content…
Human service professionals may also experience a demanding and reluctant client, who might think he deserve more than what is being provided to them or are reluctant to accept assistance. The professional must set boundaries and teach the client to be self-reliant while maintain their trust and striving to improve their quality of life. While in the helping process the helping professional must be mindful that the client most likely will have more than one problem, clients problems are rarely one issue, the human service professional should always expect that there will more likely be a diversity of problems to face. As stated before there is likely more than one problem but it would be wisely to identify what might be considered as the root of the problem. For example a child that keeps running away from home or foster homes, could it be because abuse or neglect. The problem needs to be addressed and corrected to help the