Human Services for a College Freshman

This presentation discusses the field of human services for a college freshman outlining its significance and application in the daily economic activities. It illustrates objectives and the fundamentality of studying human needs, uses interdisciplinary ideologies to discuss relevant remedies to problems faced by man, and major on delivering initiatives that will enhance the quality of life in the community.

Human Services for a College Freshman
Student’s Name
Institution Affiliation

Introduction
This presentation discusses the field
of human services for a college
freshman outlining its significance
and application in the daily economic
activities.

Discussion of Human Services
Human services:
 Illustrate objectives and the fundamentality of
studying human needs
 Use interdisciplinary ideologies to discuss relevant
remedies to problems faced by man (Coursen &
Ferns, 2004).
 Major on delivering initiatives that will enhance the
quality of life in the community.

Human Services
Enhances the improvement of life
standards.

Human Services
Human services cater for the needs of humankind in a
unique manner by applying interdisciplinary ideas

Human Services
Professionals
Are:
Individuals who hold
paraprofessionals and expert positions
in extensive situations as halfway
homes and group facilities

Human services professionals
Help the community and individuals to
operate effectively as a single domain of
life (Faix, MacDonald & Taxakis, 2014)
Show a strong ambition to help the
community.

Significance
Significance of Human Services include:
Understanding system nature of humans
Understanding and acknowledging
different conditions that limit operations
Skill selection

(1) Understanding system nature of
humans:
The community, companies and individual
groups interact effectively due to human
services
Involves the study of system nature to improve
individual and group dynamics, structure of
companies and organization of the society
(Holzinger, Ziefle, Hitz & Debevc, 2013)

Human services critical
evaluates how society
policies are formulated

(2) Understanding and acknowledging
different conditions that limit
operations:
Human services define how:
Systems operate to enhance the expected
functionality concerned with human problems.
Professionals have prior knowledge about
different models that cause human problems
(Hounmenou, 2012).

As for healthcare concerns, human
services propose mitigating actions
may include societal orientation,
medical programming, psychological
scheduling, and education measuring
and orientation.

(3) Skill selection:
Human services leads to:
Identification and selection of
intervention techniques to enhance
growth and attainment of specific
community goals.

With complete knowledge about human
services, an individual will be capable of
conducting an intellectual analysis of a
particular human problem and pinpoint
services, strategies and interventions that
will help the community to achieve a
particular objective

Application
The application depends on:
Expertise
Work obligation
Time spent in the work premise

Human Services are applied in:
Community-based surroundings
Residential surroundings
Residential healthcare facilities
and institutional surroundings

Community-base Setting
Applied by professionals in
community settings
Operates in a great extension
according to the stipulated worksheet
(Linley & George-Jackson, 2013).

Residential Setting
Human services allow professionals to
work in residential areas.
Group homes and setting residents
require extensive supervisions timely
which relates to scheduling lessons taught
in human service fields.

Residential healthcare facilities and
institutional surroundings
Human services are applied in residential
healthcare sectors and institutional settings to
deliver direct services like organizing specific
activities
Applied when leading a particular group or
offering counselling services to clients
(Wiener & Rosenwald, 2008).

Human service fields also allow graduates to gain understanding
about staffing and preparing workers efficiently based on
working experience and level of education.

Conclusion
Human services fields are interdisciplinary programs
with strategize to cater for the needs and demands of
the community using applied knowledge basis. These
fields concentrate on delivering mitigating
approaches to human issues to enhance and maintain
the standardized quality of living in the community
(Coursen & Ferns, 2004).

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