Human Service Reflection
What exactly is Human Services? Human services is defined as “uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems.”(National Organization of Human Services [NOHS], n.d) Ever since I was in my sophomore year of high school I knew that after college I wanted to work with human services in some sort of way. But being a naive sophomore, I knew nothing about the careers and the information that I did know was from the TV and the electives I took that briefly touched on this subject. So going into college and seeing that they had courses specially for students that were interested in Human Services, I knew taking this class would only further
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In this chapter I learned about how sometimes the helper’s values and his/her’s clients values might clash. This stood out to me because when you work with a variety of clients, this is bound to happen, so learning about what to do when I do come across this situation is very helpful so I don’t end up disrespecting a client accidentally. Reading this chapter taught me that even though at times I may not agree with my client’s values, it is still essential to respect the right of my client and to embrace a different worldview. In this chapter I also learned that a helper’s job isn’t to judge the client's values but to teach and help them explore their beliefs and help them to solving their problems. In addition to that, another thing that stood out to me in this course was how many career options there were in Human Services, from Generalist Human Services Work to Creative Arts Therapy, to Clinical Psychology, there are options for everyone. As I got more into this chapter it helped me get an idea of what I want to do after college and the training and education I would have to go through. And the last thing that stood out to me in this course was learning that a lot of the helpers go through therapy too to help them understand how the past conflicts might still be affecting
In this chapter I learned about how sometimes the helper’s values and his/her’s clients values might clash. This stood out to me because when you work with a variety of clients, this is bound to happen, so learning about what to do when I do come across this situation is very helpful so I don’t end up disrespecting a client accidentally. Reading this chapter taught me that even though at times I may not agree with my client’s values, it is still essential to respect the right of my client and to embrace a different worldview. In this chapter I also learned that a helper’s job isn’t to judge the client's values but to teach and help them explore their beliefs and help them to solving their problems. In addition to that, another thing that stood out to me in this course was how many career options there were in Human Services, from Generalist Human Services Work to Creative Arts Therapy, to Clinical Psychology, there are options for everyone. As I got more into this chapter it helped me get an idea of what I want to do after college and the training and education I would have to go through. And the last thing that stood out to me in this course was learning that a lot of the helpers go through therapy too to help them understand how the past conflicts might still be affecting