The human service delivery system encompasses facets for building fundamentals that are centered on clients and assisting them to become a multifaceted whole person. The multifaceted perspectives do include psychological, biological, cultural, social, financial, educational, vocational and spiritual components (Woodside & McClam, 2015, p.135). Such life experiences as spending meaningful time with friends and family, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, supporting and giving back to the community, managing finances and growing in their spiritual lives are expectations for a client. Clients go through problems and then a helping process that aides them to cope. These problems are not single focus driven but build on multiple issues that a client
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Situational perspective, meeting human needs and wellness or strength-based prospective are just a few models that exist. Situational perspectives are those problems that clients go through in problems in living. These are problems that occur at a particular time and place, in most instances individuals are not the cause of their own demise. Problems through this perspective occur as a result of accidents, violent crimes, natural disasters, and life changes. Situational problems can be both short-term and long-term difficulties. In a situational prospective, the state of the client when the situation occurs and magnitude of the problem has a lot to do with the amount of help required. An example of this would be when an individual is identified as a victim. Professionals working with victims should strive to assist them in redefining their place during a situational perspective to being accountable for their accomplishments in …show more content…
We have to question which needs are being met and which are not. A good example of evaluating how basic human needs are met is Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, one has to address their utmost basic needs before attending to their higher order needs. (p. 142). When individuals do not strive to meet their basic needs such as food and shelter, the worse off that basic need becomes. This relates to the situational perspective in the sense that the basic need problem now becomes long-term rather than short-time and further prolongs the resolution to all other needs. Basically, the longer a person goes without food the more hungry they will
Situational perspective, meeting human needs and wellness or strength-based prospective are just a few models that exist. Situational perspectives are those problems that clients go through in problems in living. These are problems that occur at a particular time and place, in most instances individuals are not the cause of their own demise. Problems through this perspective occur as a result of accidents, violent crimes, natural disasters, and life changes. Situational problems can be both short-term and long-term difficulties. In a situational prospective, the state of the client when the situation occurs and magnitude of the problem has a lot to do with the amount of help required. An example of this would be when an individual is identified as a victim. Professionals working with victims should strive to assist them in redefining their place during a situational perspective to being accountable for their accomplishments in …show more content…
We have to question which needs are being met and which are not. A good example of evaluating how basic human needs are met is Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, one has to address their utmost basic needs before attending to their higher order needs. (p. 142). When individuals do not strive to meet their basic needs such as food and shelter, the worse off that basic need becomes. This relates to the situational perspective in the sense that the basic need problem now becomes long-term rather than short-time and further prolongs the resolution to all other needs. Basically, the longer a person goes without food the more hungry they will