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Homework: The Human Service Professional

Directions: Consider the following questions, provide detailed responses accordingly. Submit with cover sheet and references if necessary.

Write each question when submitting a response.

Question I. What is the role of a human services worker and what characteristics establishes a good human services professional? Explain.

Question II. Describe how the human services code of ethics initiates, guides, and promotes an arena for the professional and client's well-being.

Question III. How do values and a philosophy of helping relate to motivations for choosing a helping profession? Explain.

Question IV. How does professional demeanor in appearance, behavior, and communication influence professional relationships with clients? Explain.

Question V. What can you as a social worker do to emphasize the strengths of those clients who have survived adversity? Consider survivors of trauma, rape, child abuse, dysfunctional families, domestic violence, war, and extreme poverty. How do you as a social worker respond to the stories of those who have experienced trauma and oppression? Explain.

Question VI. Why is self-determination a critical value in the helping process? Explain.

Question VII. When might it be acceptable for a human service professional to break confidentiality? Explain.

Question VIII. Why is empathy important within counseling? Provide an example of an empathetic statement to a client.

Question IX. Explain what is meant by cultural competence and provide an example?

Question X. Why is flexibility important in counselling? Explain.