This assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this week’s modules and textbook readings.
As an HHS professional, you will be expected to understand topics related to how services are accessed and delivered and to have the values and behaviors that are required to be effective in the HHS field.
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Chapter 8: The Action Arrow: Right from the Beginning Help Clients Turn Talk into Life-Enhancing Action
Answer the questions below by using chapter 8 of your textbook.
1. A ____ is a practical plan to accomplish an objective.
☐ strategy
☐ dilemma
☐ duty
☐ none of these apply
2. Self-determination and self-control are both essential for a client to make necessary _____ in their life.
☐ changes
☐ Intentions
☐ leeway
☐ none of these apply
3. Clients can sometimes ______ by putting off something they should be doing. This can occur when they have too many things to do, and tend to do the things they want to do, versus the things they need to do.
☐ alleviate
☐ procrastinate
☐ alienate
☐ none of these apply
4. An example of a response that would be helpful to a reluctant or resistant client is _____.
☐ helping the client identify incentives or motivations for change
☐ openly expressing your frustration with the client
☐ trying to placate the client to repair the relationship
☐ doing nothing, since these problem behaviors will disappear
5. Creating _______ is a good way to help clients take action.
☐ checklists
☐ pictures
☐ diagrams
☐ none of these apply
Chapter 10: Stage II: Help Clients Design and Set Problem-Managing Goals
Answer the questions below by using chapter 10 of your textbook.
6. It’s important to help clients distinguish needs from ______ when helping them set goals.
☐ adaptability
☐ wants
☐ focus
☐ none of these apply
7. Setting appropriate goals leads to _____.
☐ never having failures
☐ focusing on personal inadequacies
☐ resentment about having to reach them
☐ a search for a way to accomplish them
8. Goals help clients mobilize their energy and direct their _____ to achieve their goals.
☐ avoidance
☐ intelligence
☐ efforts
☐ none of these apply
9. It’s important to develop client goals that are _____ and specific.
☐ clear
☐ not personal
☐ fuzzy
☐ none of these apply
10. It’s important to help clients develop ______ goals.
☐ realistic
☐ unusual
☐ self-centered
☐ none of these apply
Goal-Setting
Reflect on what you have learned this week to help you respond to the question below. You may choose to respond in writing or by recording a video!
11. Explain why goal-setting is so important to helping clients.
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12. Imagine an issue that a client faces, list the problem and create three SMART goals to help the client. Refer to the image below to review the parts of SMART Goals.
Client Issue (3points)
SMART Goal to resolve issue (6 points)
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Beyond SMART Goals: How to Build Better Results. (2017, May 23). Retrieved October 17, 2018, from http://www.houseofhunt.com/executive-edge/executive-edge-june-2016-smart-goals/
Quotes about Smart Goals. (n.d.). Retrieved October 17, 2018, from https://www.quotemaster.org/smart goals
Avoid Procrastination
Review the content located in the link below, then answer the following question.
13. One of the biggest obstacles to goal achievement is procrastination. As you progress through the HHS program, it’s important to practice strategies to reduce your level of procrastination. Check out this link: https://tinyurl.com/y7l2ez6n (press control/click to open the link). Explain how you avoid procrastination.
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Research Journal
Reflect on what you have learned this week to help you respond to the question below. This assignment is part three of a five-part paper you will create throughout this course.
14. Consider the field of Health and Human Services. Working in the HHS field, what kind of people do want to work with (examples include but are not limited to: children, elderly, substance abuse clients, people living in poverty, homeless clients, clients with substance abuse issues, etc.) with and why do you feel strongly about helping those people? Search the internet for a problem that they face and explain what kind of help is available to them. Explain why you chose that example.
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15. Cite the example you find in APA format.
Note: use the citation generator to help you cite your resources.
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