1. What is the most important aspect of culturally sensitive human services practice? Being culturally sensitive and being culturally competent lie hand in hand. Being culturally competent means being able to combine sensitivity and knowledge. Being able to do this will bring a more appropriate way of communication. So it is more important to be able to combine being sensitive about a person’s culture but still have knowledge about their culture so that you are being sensitive not ignorant. 2. What
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Introduction to the Course KOM5113: Communication Research Methods First Semester (September)‚ 2013/2014 By: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Zobidah Omar SZO/KOM5113 1 Lecturer Name: Assoc. Prof. Dr Siti Zobidah Omar Tel: H/P: Fax: E-mail: 03 – 8946 8797 /1858 (Off.) 012-2377529 03 - 8948 5950 zobidah@putra.upm.edu.my Room: Department of Communication‚ Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication‚ Universiti Putra Malaysia SZO/KOM5113 2 Course requirement Required
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Latoya Richardson The Values and Beliefs of Human Services October 11‚ 2010 BSHS 322 Communication for Human Services Mrs. .Amy Donaldson Introduction In order to be a Human Service agent you must have discovered your values and beliefs. When you discover your values and beliefs you are underlying what you can do for your clients‚ what attributes you can offer them‚ and setting up a foundation for providing great care. Values and Beliefs All clinical interviewing is embedded in a system
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In the field of Human Services there are a multitude of people that need assistance. However‚ in each target population has their own distinct issues. Examples of these target groups or populations are people with mental illness‚ the homeless‚ and senior citizens. Mental illness is defined as when a person’s mental state is beyond what is considered normal. For instance‚ a person with depression has extreme lows as appose to a mentally healthy person who will bounce back from their emotional low
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The objective of this paper is to provide a concrete overview‚ and demonstrate how privatization of public services agencies is taking place in the area of health and human services. I will also look at the rationales behind privatization and the evidences of how effective or problematic this could be for many government agencies. We must agree that privatization is not a new concept and this has been around for a many decades. What is privatization? What are the pros and cons? These questions
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Sociology Research Methods Essay Assignment "Bringing Home the Bacon: Marital Allocation of Income-Earning Responsibility‚ Job Shifts and Men ’s Wages" By: Gorman‚ Elizabeth H. 1999 Research Question The research question addressed in the article "Bringing Home the Bacon: Marital Allocation of Income-Earning Responsibility‚ Job Shifts and Men ’s Wages" discusses the issue of marriage and how it impacts men ’s job shift patterns and how job shifting also influences men ’s wages. The research
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Methods For the purpose of this research a nonprobability type of sampling will take place. Participants will be recruited from three outpatient substance abusing programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and surrounding areas. The study opportunity will be announced to individuals after group therapy sessions and by posting flyers at different outpatient substance abusing program facilities. Purposive sampling will be most beneficial because it will allow for the deliberate selection of individuals
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Overall‚ Teresa LaFromboise’s research has proven to be invaluable in the advancement and understanding of multicultural psychology‚ specifically in acknowledging some of the major issues that remain in developing and implementing psychological interventions for at-risk youth of American Indian descent. LaFromboise’s methods are important not only because they emphasize the necessity of multicultural and cross-cultural methods in psychology but they also have implications in modern American history
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Human Service Scenario Analysis BSHS/322 Communication Skills for the Human Service Professional Human Service Scenario Analysis My client is a 32-year-old woman named Sonya. Sonya‘s heritage is multicultural as her mother is Hispanic and Caucasian and her father was Afro-American. Sonya identifies herself as an Afro –American raised by a white middle-class family. Green (2008) states‚ “Historically‚ biracial individuals have been portrayed as lost souls…” (p. 39). Sonya is among a group
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Arc of the Ozarks is a local human service organization providing help to people in the local communities with physical and mental disabilities. The main local offices for the Arc can be found in Springfield‚ Joplin‚ and Monett‚ Missouri. Interviewing someone from the Arc could have been done over the phone‚ by e-mail‚ and an in-person interview. The in-person interview seemed to be more appropriate because it would allow me to interact with the people who work for the organization and possibly see
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