A Future Trend in Crisis Intervention (Mental Health and Crisis Intervention Bshs471)
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A Future Trend in Crisis Intervention
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University of Phoenix
Mental Health and Crisis Interventions
BSHS 471
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A Future Trend in Crisis Intervention
As the population in the United States continues to climb the need for human services professionals does the same. Human service agencies are often face the dilemmas of being over-worked and under paid. Professionals in this field are often prone to burnout because of these dilemmas. Sadly, human service agencies are often the first to experience budget cuts. These budget cuts affect the human service professional’s organization, facility, coworkers, pay, clients, and their personal moral. Leading officials of many human service organizations are noticing the affects of these dilemmas and are trying proactive approaches in solving the epidemics. As a result, the paraprofessional is becoming increasingly popular as they can fill the much needed worker positions, assist in alleviating clinician caseload, assist in keeping up with the demand of services, and one of the most important business reasons is to save the organization valuable budget money. The following will be discussed in this paper: The future trend of the paraprofessional in human services, the impact of this trend on the human services field and how the trend will impact the practice of crisis intervention in the human service. Furthermore, the challenges faced as a result of the impact, and how the human services worker can proactively deal with this expanding trend will also be addressed.
The Paraprofessional Paraprofessionals in the human services field can be considered both an important asset and a nuisance to the clinicians and the clients served. One of the many benefits of the paraprofessional in the human service career field could be that they require less training than typical clinician or other human service professional. The
A Future Trend in Crisis Intervention
Your Name HERE
University of Phoenix
Mental Health and Crisis Interventions
BSHS 471
INSTRUCTOR HERE
DATE HERE
A Future Trend in Crisis Intervention
As the population in the United States continues to climb the need for human services professionals does the same. Human service agencies are often face the dilemmas of being over-worked and under paid. Professionals in this field are often prone to burnout because of these dilemmas. Sadly, human service agencies are often the first to experience budget cuts. These budget cuts affect the human service professional’s organization, facility, coworkers, pay, clients, and their personal moral. Leading officials of many human service organizations are noticing the affects of these dilemmas and are trying proactive approaches in solving the epidemics. As a result, the paraprofessional is becoming increasingly popular as they can fill the much needed worker positions, assist in alleviating clinician caseload, assist in keeping up with the demand of services, and one of the most important business reasons is to save the organization valuable budget money. The following will be discussed in this paper: The future trend of the paraprofessional in human services, the impact of this trend on the human services field and how the trend will impact the practice of crisis intervention in the human service. Furthermore, the challenges faced as a result of the impact, and how the human services worker can proactively deal with this expanding trend will also be addressed.
The Paraprofessional Paraprofessionals in the human services field can be considered both an important asset and a nuisance to the clinicians and the clients served. One of the many benefits of the paraprofessional in the human service career field could be that they require less training than typical clinician or other human service professional. The
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