Trisa Pederson
ON11BHS10
December 21, 2011
Linda N. Latham MFT
Site Visit and Interview
Human service agencies provide a remarkably unique approach in assisting the community. Each field provides a number of services that meet the need of the individual.
These needs provide a vast knowledge of preventive measures met through an array of responsibilities in the medical setting. The responsibilities typically used can include addressing the individuals’ problems, trauma counseling, daily living, and mental health issues (Martin, 2007, pp. 1-13). The organization the interviewer chose to conduct the interview with is Casa Colina Hospital. Casa Colina is a nonprofit acute rehabilitation hospital accredited by …show more content…
Casa Colina determines the need for new programs by listing to the desires of the patients. 5. At Casa Colina there are always new programs in the works to provide exceptional help for the patient and his or her families. 6. The model and therapy that has been used and that is still used at Casa Colina are that of behavior therapy. Behavior therapy provides a positive reinforcement so that the individual can move forward in his or her treatment. This concludes the E-mail interview with Emily Rosario PhD. Casa Colina research department and development. The interviewer received enough general information to provide an understanding of how Casa Colina provides Human Services through an array of behavioral theories within the facility and the community. When the interview was over the interviewer reflected on how the behavioral theory works at Casa Colina. The interviewer visited the site at Casa Colina and the interviewer realized that it had to take a positive behavior toward the patient’s rehabilitation in order for them to recover and enter back into society. However, this would be a long road for most of the patients and at Christmas time it especially does not get any easier for these individuals to feel positive and promote a positive