Professional Development

 Human services professionals are required to continue to learn, engage, and stay current in their field of choice. Discuss your target population, future/current work goals, and how professional development will fit into your future career development. Why is this important? What else would you like to learn related to your future career?  

UNIT 4 TASK

 Topic 8- Summer Learning Loss (Chapter 9): According to studies, all students return from summer vacation with decreased academic levels of achievement. For low-income students, however, the decrease is greater than that for middle-class children. What conditions may contribute to this difference? Discuss at least two (2) possible ways that the “summer loss gap” can … Read more

Multiple Relationships

 This week, you explored different types of multiple relationships. Some multiple relationships are unavoidable and unanticipated, such as human services professionals working in a rural community might have a neighbor as a client. However, other multiple relationships, such as developing a romantic relationship with a client should never happen. 

Confidentiality and Privacy with Telecommunication Devices

 As you learned this week, clients expect the information shared with their human services professionals to be kept private and confidential. With the increase in the use of technological devices (computers, smartphones, tablets, etc.) within the helping professions, human services professionals must be aware of potential concerns regarding confidentiality, privacy, and privileged communication. 

Project Management

Weeks 15 & 16 – Discussion QuestionWe have spent alot time over the past 7 weeks working with “Sim4Projects”.  Please provide three “Take-a-Ways” from your interaction with the Simulation.  Please list your three take-a-ways in bullet point form.  Shown below are some questions to consider, they make help with your take-a-ways (comments): How well did … Read more

Unit 6 Time Line

 In this assignment, you will construct a timeline using the timeline template, placing the cultures covered in this week’s reading in the appropriate place on a chronological timeline and global map.