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.