BSHS 475 Wk 1 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Tell everyone about the workplace you are interning at, or will intern at. Specifically, offer the

• mission and / or vision statement of the establishment
• comment on how you match the vision or mission – how will you be part of their vision?
• what will your duties / responsibilities be with this organization
• what are your personal goals while doing this internship – how will you grow?
• is this area an area you want employment in later? If not, what area is your target?

Please use professional resources and cite them in these answers. Part of your personal professionalism is to show that we know and can use professional sources.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 2 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

This week we are looking at differences between enabling, and empowering. Give an example of a time in your life when someone enabled you. This might just be in completing homework or something not related to what we often think of enabling, like with addictions. How did the enabling affect you?

Now tell of a time when someone empowered you. Again, this might be about a relationship or school work.

So how will you carry these ideas into work with your clients. Do we ever rightly enable them? Should we always only empower them, and what would this mean in the setting of your internship, or in your work setting?

Please use and cite some professional resources. Look into journals in the U of P library. This is part of our personal professionalism.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 3 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

The theme this week is program evaluation. Please explain what that is, in simple terms, so that if your friend asks you, why are you evaluating your program, you could explain it so others would understand.

What is an evaluation? How do we do it? Why do we do it? Can anyone give any examples?

If you are grant funded, sometimes there is a stipulation to evaluate the program formally, and an evaluation can cost 100 thousand dollars or more on large programs like a teen pregnancy program.

Please use professional resources as part of your professionalism in the field.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 4 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

In week 4 we are looking at how we sometimes do research at our agencies. Research often starts with a question, like how many people are getting well? How much better are they after 6 weeks? How long or short does the program have to be to work for the clients? How is client satisfaction?

Then we might use a scientific method type experimental format, or we might use a survey to get answers.

What sorts of issues in your workplace might be researchable? If you can’t get enough face time hours at the internship site, you might ask me if you can write up a researchable item, using references and some literature search on the issue.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 5 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

In your agency, who decides what services any client needs? How is a client taken in to your services, and how are services provided?

For instance, some agencies have an intake worker who looks over the issues and gives various professionals the clients. What is done where you work, and it is effective?

How would you know if this is effective?

Please be sure to use some professional resources and share what you have used with your colleagues in your first post (due Thursdays),

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 6 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

I would like to encourage a discussion with many facets, like a diamond perhaps. Answer one or some of these with ideas and references:

• what is “ethics”?
• is “ethics” the same as laws?
• who judges ethical and unethical behavior for YOUR job or position?
• what are some kinds of ethics?
• what is virtue ethics, for an example?
• what other types of ethics are there?
• provide some resources if you can

Here is a website to help you distinguish between ethics and morals:

Difference Between Ethics and Morality

As always, please show that you are also studying / using professional resources. This is not just to ask you your opinions, but form opinions based on professional study, too.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 7 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Answer some of these questions or address various issues, for a lively discussion this week.

What types of addictions do you know about, or have experience with? Explain a little (you don’t have to get personal) about how you know about that type of addiction.

Discuss how treatment can be given for that addiction, like where, how long, who does therapy, what is needed, and so on.

What is a methadone clinic, and how does a person get networked to that sort of treatment?

Some states have legalized the use and sale of marijuana, and are even moving toward legalizing all drug use and sales. What do you think about this? Any ideas may be discussed with respect for each other.

Always use and cite some professional resources to show you are ready to graduate as a professional in this field.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 8 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Expand on some of these ideas for discussion:

What is the difference between an intervention and a referral?

Have you ever participated in an intervention? Was it effective? (no need to be personal)

Has anyone attended a professional intervention? That might be different than some on TV.

What happens at the end of an intervention meeting? How does a needy person get help?

Be sure to use professional resources, and report on them here as a professional in human services.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 9 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Have a discussion this week about these issues:

What do we mean by a court mandated reporter of abuse or neglect?

Has anyone here ever had to report abuse or neglect? What was the experience like?

Has anyone here worked in an agency that deals with abuse and neglect, like CPS? What is that like?

How about adult abuse? We often think of children.

What do we mean by neglect? Does anyone have examples to share?

Be sure to study and cite some professional literature on a topic or two here.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 10 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Here are some ideas to discuss this week:

Does your agency work with victims or even perpetrators of violence?

How are perpetrators of violence treated? Does anyone know?

Do incarcerated perpetrators get any mental health treatment to help reduce violence?

What types of violence or related issues does your agency deal with?

What are some impacts on a community when violence is frequent or “normal”? What does that mean? Are there really place where violence is almost normal?

Be sure to show you can use appropriate professional resources. Cite them here.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 11 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Answer or provide some ideas, backed up with resources you consulted, for these themes:

• What would we mean by successful aging?
• What are some of the resources for older people in YOUR community?
• What are some of the needs of older people?
• What are the normal issues that older people deal with?
• What should you do if you hear about or suspect elder abuse?
• What is elder abuse? What forms can it take?
• Is there an agency where you live to deal with elder abuse?

Please remember to use professional resources too. This is part of your professionalism.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 12 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

This week we are focusing on mental health needs. Reply, the first response by Thursday, to some of these themes and back up your ideas with resources you have studied…. not just your own ideas, but supported with research or other authors:

• what are some mental health needs you deal with in your agency? Are there any? Well, how about even among staff, to be a little more controversial?
• what agencies or people in your community are able to offer interventions for mental health needs, in your community? Who do you refer to for these?
• So you have a child psychiatrist in your community, or within referring distance? Or do any offer telehealth services for kids, if you are too rural?
• What are telehealth mental health services? Has anyone see this done?
• Offer some ideas on some impacts of culture on mental health issues and needs.
• So you know of some behaviors that seem like mental health issues in one culture, but not in another?

Please remember to consult some professional resources and include them, as part of your show of personal professionalism in this field.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 13 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Discuss based on these themes this week. Support your posts with some resources you consulted:

• What are some faith based agencies that offer human services in your area?
• What services are offered by faith based agencies where you live?
• Is there a “mission” in your area, and what do they provide, and to whom?
• Do you think that it’s appropriate for government to fund faith based agencies?
• Does your agency network with any faith based agencies in your community?
• What services do Catholic Charities provide in your area (this is often surprising)?
• Are the services provided through faith based agencies professional?
• Why would anyone prefer a faith based agency, or would ever network out to one?

Please remember to read some current professional literature about this area, and use it in your answers as part of your professionalism.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 14 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

This week’s theme is closure and transition. Answer these ideas with resources you have studied to support your posts

• What do we mean by closure with clients? How many visits do they get?
• What do we mean by transition with clients? Do all clients transition?
• When do you start to prepare for closure?
• Do all clients get closure?
• Do you chase clients who have quit coming to provide some closure? If so, how? Phone? ??
• What do YOU get out of closure? Anything?
• Why do we provide closure? Overall? Or Transition?
• Do you have any examples to share from your line of work?

Please remember to always consult some professional literature and use it as part of our professionalism.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.

BSHS 475 Wk 15 – Discussion

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

This week’s theme is human rights and politics in the provision of human services.

Offer discussion, supported with academic resources, on:

• In your line of work, how do politics enter into any decisions made between you and your clients?
• What sorts of human rights do you have to consider in your line of work, the helping professions?
• Do you know of any political issues affecting your line of work right now ,or currently?
• Does your agency rely on any grant funding? Is there any politics involved there?
• Provide an example from case law or research on a violation of human rights in the helping professions.

As part of your professionalism, please always look into the current literature and show that you know about it and can use it.

Due Monday

• Reply to at least two of your classmates.
• Be constructive and professional in your responses.