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BHS-350 Report Writing, Research, and Information Literacy in Behavioral Health
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Assignment: Characteristics and Skills
For this assignment, imagine that you will be attending a career fair consisting of human service organizations from the following professions:
Generalist human services work
Creative arts therapy
Counseling
Social work
Note: You may find it helpful to search the Internet for human service agencies or organizations in the area that most interests you, and then identify available jobs on their Web sites. By looking at the job functions or qualifications, you can determine what may be appropriate characteristics and skills needed for the job.
Resources: Ch. 5 (pp. 195-210, pp. 214-20, and pp. 223-6) of Human Services in Contemporary America and human service agencies or organization Web sites
Due Date: Day 7 [Individual forum]
Choose a company or organization in the fields or professions listed above that you would consider working for to begin your human service career. Before you attend the career fair, you decide to put together in a cover letter a brief synopsis of the characteristics and skills you would bring to the organization. Because you have just started your associate’s degree program, you do not have much experience in the field, but you believe that you possess some of the characteristics needed for an entry-level position in your chosen career.
Write a 350- to 700-word cover letter in APA format outlining the characteristics and skills you possess. Explain how you would apply these characteristics and skills to a specific position within their organization. Refer to the specific characteristics and skills discussed in Ch. 5, for example,
HSM 210 Human Services in the United States Course Syllabus Page 14
and match them to the job qualifications listed on the agency’s Web site. Be sure to provide the Web site location of the company or organization’s list of job qualifications.
Post your cover letter as a Microsoft® Word attachment.
CheckPoint: Evaluating Communication Strategies
Resource: Ch. 5 (pp. 195-210, 214-20, 223-6) of Human Services in Contemporary America
Due Date: Day 3 [Individual forum]
Consider the following scenario: You are working as a human service worker at a local United Way agency that serves several multicultural clients. In addition to the multicultural aspect, the agency also serves children, women, the elderly, and the homeless. Your manager has asked you to decide the best communication approach for each of these clients.
Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words:
What would you need to learn or know about each of your clients in order to communicate effectively with them?
What strategies or techniques do you believe would be the best approach to take when communicating with each of these clients?
How might you need to adapt your communication approach from one individual to the next?
Capstone Discussion Question
Due Date: Day 3 [Main forum]
Research a career path within the human service industry that interests you. You may explore the Web sites listed in Appendix G or search the Internet using the name of a particular career as a keyword.
Post your response to the following: Which career trends do you find the most appealing? Considering the topics discussed in this course, what opportunities and obstacles do you expect to encounter in your chosen career? What concepts or strategies discussed in this course do you think will be the most useful to you in your chosen career?
Final Project: Reflection Presentation
At the beginning of this course, you selected a target population and a specific issue or problem related to that population to research. Throughout the course, you examined the population and issue from a variety of perspectives such as theory, policy, government regulations and standards, and prevention measures.
Resources: Appendix A, Human Services in Contemporary America, the University Library PowerPoint® Presentation tutorial at http://www.apollolibrary.com/cwe/pdfs/PowerPointTutorial.pdf, and your research results from the CheckPoints and assignments you completed for this course.
Due Date: Day 7 [Individual forum]
Use the information you gathered throughout this course as a reference and prepare a 13- to 17-slide PowerPoint® presentation about the knowledge you gained from your research in this course. Briefly describe the issue and target population you chose to research for the assignments in this course and summarize the outcomes of your research. Also, explain how you intend to apply this knowledge in your future career as a human service worker.
Include introduction and conclusion slides and cite sources in APA style.
Address the following guiding questions in your presentation:
From what you have learned in this course and your research results, what are your greatest concerns about the current state of the human service industry?
Considering all of the conflicts, issues, and challenges you analyzed and discussed in this course, explain your viewpoint regarding the ideology that human service workers should be “advocates for social justice” (Ch. 9, p. 336).
Has your view changed since the beginning of the course regarding the role of the human services worker in relation to the future needs of America?
How will you apply the knowledge you gained from this course to your future human service career?
Post your presentation as a Microsoft® PowerPoint® attachment.
