What is Human Services? Amanda Vega University of Phoenix BSHS 301 [ August 2, 2010 ] Magdalena Aina, MA, LPC Abstract [According to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), “An abstract is a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly and, like a title, it enables persons interested in the document to retrieve it from abstracting and indexing databases” (2010, p. 5). The first line of the abstract is not indented. An abstract may range from 150 to 250 words (APA, 2010). Because an abstract is not always required for student papers, adhere to your instructor’s requirements. ] What is Human Services?
The goal of human services is to support individuals as well as communities function at their maximum potential, overcoming personal and social barriers as effectively as possible in the major domains of living (2007 Martin, Michelle) As a human services worker our goal is to; develop, increase and maintain our clients self sufficiency skills, and level of independent functioning, to improve their quality of life, , to provide empowerment, to develop and increase our clients coping and problem solving skills; ultimately our human services goal is to teach them how to fish.
The history of human services There has been a need to help others since the beginning of time. Our current milieu of human services has its roots traced back to the late 1800’s, but a more recent history of human services can be traced back to the1950’s when there was a new consciousness that there were parts of our population that were in need of services. This new consciousness of the era was complemented by a legislation that moved many of the needed services to communities, which led to many working class organizations led by clients, or consumers needing services.
In 1956 NIMH or the National Institute of Mental Health provided the basics that allowed Purdue University to start an associate’s degree program in mental health. This in turn was the beginning of a fully fledged human service program, which later developed in different parts of the country. The nature of generalist practice [Cover the third main topic of your paper in this section. ] Theoretical frameworks Cover the fourth main topic of your paper in this section Coy mmon intervention strategies Cover the fifth main topic of your paper in this section Ethical considerations
Cover the sixth main topic of your paper in this section Conclusion [This is the where the conclusion of your paper goes. ] References Hanging indent for all references. To keep this format, simply place the cursor at the front of this www. stedwards. edu/newc/humanservices/ba-goals_history. h… www. stedwards. edu/newc/humanservices/ba-goals_history. html line and paste or type your reference material. Then press enter. Remember to organize your references alphabetically. Remember to delete this line of text and any other template text before submitting your paper.
