Reconceptualizing Support Systems for Persons with Challenging Behaviors

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard P. Parette ◽  
Judith M. Holt ◽  
Tom E. C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Challenging Behaviors ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Behavioral Supports ◽  
Positive Behavioral Supports ◽  
And Training

As human service systems attempt to integrate persons with disabilities, particularly those with challenging behaviors, into the mainstream of society, use of positive behavioral supports must be implemented. Training of persons in the formal and informal support systems must also be reconceptualized in the context of using positive behavioral supports. This paper addresses some current issues related to the use of such supports and training in the delivery of human services.

The Complete Correctional Officer

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Shelley Price
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Service Work ◽  
And Training

The correctional officer role is examined in relation to the possibilities the role affords for the delivery of human services to inmates with problems and crises of adjustment. Correctional officers who expand their roles to include human service obligations contribute to the development of resilient prison environments—environments that accommodate the shifting needs and concerns of inmates, and support their coping efforts. Human service officers strive to be complete correctional officers, responsive to the challenges posed for them and their wards by the prison. These correctional officers need nurturance and support if they are to survive. This requires organizational backing in the form of policies that foster and reward human service work, and training that provides the requisite skills, perspective, and support.

 Intentionality in Human Services

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-122
Author(s):  
Michelle Shuler
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Training Curriculum ◽  
Helping Skills ◽  
And Training

This article describes the concept of intentionality and how it relates to human services education and training. The focus is on how the incorporation of intentionality into human services training curriculum can enhance the knowledge, skill, and competence of trainees. Several examples are given to show how human service educators can integrate activities within a basic helping skills course.

Disability & Human Services In Popular Literature in Relation to Recent Presidential Administrations

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank L. Giles ◽  
E. Keith Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Carter Administration ◽  
Persons With Disabilities

The purpose of this research is to determine relations that may exist between presidential administrations and topics related to human services and persons with disabilities in popular periodicals. The researchers discovered a relationship between human service topics and the Carter versus Reagan administrations. Significantly more articles were written on human services during the last two years of the Carter Administration than during the first two years of the Reagan Administration.

 A Multi-paradigmatic Interdisciplinary Framework for Human Service Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
 Crystal Coles ◽  
Jason Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Organizational Health ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Human Services Organizations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Social Uncertainty ◽  
Analytical Complexity

Increasingly, human service systems are complicated by interprofessional spaces, quickening technological change, and social uncertainty. New guides built on existing research, practice, and interdisciplinary knowledge can lead practitioners through these complexities. Targeted toward an interdisciplinary audience, this article introduces four mechanisms to navigate the practical realities of human services organizations. The first, paradigms of organizational analysis, centers on embedded assumptions within human services organizations and their implications. The second, an organizational health paradigm, focuses on organizational health and functioning. The third, an ethical paradigm, incorporates interdisciplinary ethics across various disciplines. The final integrates these mechanisms along four practical pillars of human services systems: policy, organizations, community, and planning/evaluation that incorporate context, focus, and application of organizational practice activities. This framework aims to reduce analytical complexity, comprehensively guide practitioners in understanding contemporary human services systems, and apply these integrated dimensions across policy, organization, community, and planning/evaluation in human services settings.

Predicting Teacher Use and Benefit from Virtual Training in Classroom-Level Positive Behavioral Supports

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa S. Shernoff ◽  
Adam J. Lekwa ◽  
Stacy L. Frazier ◽  
Alban Delmarre ◽  
Joseph Gabbard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Training ◽  
Behavioral Supports ◽  
Positive Behavioral Supports ◽  
Teacher Use ◽  
Classroom Level

Client Empowerment in the Human Services: Personal and Professional Agenda

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeheskel Hasenfeld ◽  
Mark A. Chesler
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Human Service Providers ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Researcher ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts

The authors juxtapose autobiographical accounts of their personal and professional lives to examine the interplay of their personas and work in the social sciences. Chesler is an action researcher and change agent who focuses primarily on young people and their parents and on those providing them human services. Hasenfeld is an academic who focuses primarily on relations between clients and human service providers and on the systemic changes needed to improve these relations. They share domain assumptions, particularly a belief in the “good” society based on justice, social equality, and respect for diversity, are committed to improving the life chances of the oppressed and disadvantaged, and believe that empowering the clients of human service agencies is crucial to improving the effectiveness and responsiveness of such organizations.

The State and Human Services: Toward a Human Service Rights Policy

1978 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Edward Humberger ◽  
Michael Hill ◽  
Robert Moroney ◽  
Valerie Bradley ◽  
Gary Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
The State

Exploring Policy Implications of Ethics of Care and Justice in Care Work and Human Services Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 193672442110274
Author(s):  
Christa J. Moore ◽  
Patricia Gagné
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Human Service Organizations ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Bureaucratic Constraints

Much attention has recently been focused on the efficacy of cross-sector collaboration within the field of human services in response to increasing rates of child maltreatment and subsequent foster care entries nationwide. Our research includes 200 hours of participant observation, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 65 professionals broadly involved in the protection of vulnerable children and the support of their parents, and an analysis of 45 case files. It was carried out in a rural region of Kentucky between May 2015 and July 2017. We used established principles of analytic induction to analyze our data. In this study, we explore perceptions of power, authority, inequality, and bureaucratic constraints that emerge during organizational processes of interagency collaboration among multidisciplinary human service organizations situated within the child welfare system. We argue that ethics of care and, subsequently, care work are constrained by power dynamics, primarily embedded in bureaucratically structured human service organizations as well as in policy mandates that embody ethics of justice. We conclude that the tensions between bureaucratic constraints and professional workers’ desire to care for and serve clients often disrupt and undermine organizational missions and policy goals targeting child protection. We indicate the need to examine these structural dynamics at a policy level and provide recommendations with policy implications.

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