STATEMENT 20: Human service professionals are aware of sociopolitical issues that differentially affect clients from diverse backgrounds. Week 1 Assignment Application: Human Services Philosophy Statement and Portfolio Week 2 Assignment Application: Artifact—Case Management Plan Week 3 Assignment Application: Artifact—Professional Statement on Interviewing Week 4 Assignment Application: Artifact—Logic Model Running head: Assignment 1 1 Assignment 1 4 Human Services Philosophy Statement Linda Dotson Walden University Human Services Philosophy Statement Introduction The same way engineers and architects rely heavily on blue prints in order to understand the nature of their work and communicate to other people effectively what they are capable of, is the same way human services professional depend on the philosophy statements to communicate their professionalism in their line of work. One segment of this philosophy statement is the portfolio which tells a lot about a student or any professional for it can be used to quickly assess a person’s expertise, values, experiences and even some social, cultural and ethics of a person. Therefore, a portfolio forms a very crucial part of the philosophy statements which dictates any informs a lot about any professional in the human services sector. Many scholars in the recent? have all agreed that the best way to do a quick assessment on both students and even those who are already in the field of human services is by understanding their educational, professional and ethical values of a person summarized by one’s portfolio (Gray, Dean, Agllias, Howard, & Schubert, 2015). Therefore, when developing a portfolio one should tackle the three key components which are the purpose the portfolio is intended to serve, the definition of what expertise the person may have accrued over their educational period and finally the pragmatics which is very important and the language one uses in delivering their information matters a lot. It promotes the development of skills and knowledge that might be the very key in the implementation of individual compiling the portfolio. Human services in the recent past have been given little recognition globally but the role the sector plays in human is very pivotal. Since so many praises can be given to engineers, lawyers or even doctor but the human service industry will forever remain the backbone of humanity for without it there can never be other fields of study which rely on humanity as they serve the human needs. But ideally of what purpose could science serve if there is humanity to appreciate the beauty of science? It therefore means that human service is very fundamental field in any human race. This field requires support from every relevant stakeholder in order to make its contribution recognizable globally. For instance, the case of flooding and civil war, the major sector which has been in the fore front to restore the sanctity of humanity is the human se.

1. STATEMENT 20: Human service professionals are aware of
sociopolitical issues that differentially affect clients from
diverse backgrounds.
Week 1 Assignment
Application: Human Services Philosophy Statement and
Portfolio
Week 2 Assignment
Application: Artifact—Case Management Plan
Week 3 Assignment
Application: Artifact—Professional Statement on Interviewing
Week 4 Assignment
Application: Artifact—Logic Model
Running head: Assignment 1
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Assignment 1
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Human Services Philosophy Statement
Linda Dotson
Walden University
Human Services Philosophy Statement
Introduction
The same way engineers and architects rely heavily on blue

2. prints in order to understand the nature of their work and
communicate to other people effectively what they are capable
of, is the same way human services professional depend on the
philosophy statements to communicate their professionalism in
their line of work. One segment of this philosophy statement is
the portfolio which tells a lot about a student or any
professional for it can be used to quickly assess a person’s
expertise, values, experiences and even some social, cultural
and ethics of a person. Therefore, a portfolio forms a very
crucial part of the philosophy statements which dictates any
informs a lot about any professional in the human services
sector.
Many scholars in the recent? have all agreed that the best way
to do a quick assessment on both students and even those who
are already in the field of human services is by understanding
their
educational, professional and ethical values of a person
summarized by one’s portfolio (Gray, Dean, Agllias, Howard, &
Schubert, 2015). Therefore, when developing a portfolio one
should tackle the three key components which are the purpose
the portfolio is intended to serve, the definition of what
expertise the person may have accrued over their educational
period and finally the pragmatics which is very important and
the language one uses in delivering their information matters a
lot. It promotes the development of skills and knowledge that
might be the very key in the implementation of individual
compiling the portfolio.
Human services in the recent past have been given little
recognition globally but the role the sector plays in human is
very pivotal. Since so many praises can be given to engineers,
lawyers or even doctor but the human service industry will
forever remain the backbone of humanity for without it there
can never be other fields of study which rely on humanity as
they serve the human needs. But ideally of what purpose could
science serve if there is humanity to appreciate the beauty of
science? It therefore means that human service is very

3. fundamental field in any human race.
This field requires support from every relevant stakeholder in
order to make its contribution recognizable globally. For
instance, the case of flooding and civil war, the major sector
which has been in the fore front to restore the sanctity of
humanity is the human service industry (Neukrug, 2016). Some
of the individuals in this sector have philosophy statements
which are very comprehensive and informing. Hence in
philosophy statement development one should clearly
understand the purpose his or her portfolio for it determines and
tell
more about who one is.
In summary, it can be said that human service is a very
important aspect of humanity and a professional field which
should be given the right attention it deserves just like other
sectors of service industry. Also, portfolios are equally
important in allowing professional and students alike to
summarize what they could have learnt in their respective field
of choice. This kind of information helps assessors to create
linkage between the student or a professional and their
portfolios.
References
Gray, M., Dean, M., Agllias, K., Howard, A., & Schubert, L.
(2015). Perspectives on neoliberalism for human service
professionals. Social Service Review, 89(2), 368-392.
Neukrug, E. S. (2016). Theory, practice, and trends in human
services: An introduction. Cengage Learning.
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4. Running head: CASE MANAGEMENT
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CASE MANAGEMENT
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Case management
Linda Dotson
Walden University
Case Management
Cate is a 19-year-old girl, who lives with his mother, Taylor,
and step-father, David in Detroit. Cate’s mother, Taylor works
three jobs to be able to pay all the bills including her daughter’s
school fees. Her husband, David is a jobless drunkard who is
often violent and rude. He has been sexually assaulting Cate.
Due to the absence of her mother, Cate could not get to her
concerning the issue and thus she found comfort in drugs. As a
result, Cate’s performance deteriorated and pushed her peers
away by being a loner. Some of the challenges Cate suffers on a
daily basis include parent (mother) absenteeism, lack of basic
needs due to the limited resources, as well as psychological
trauma (Penzenstadler, Machado, Thorens, Zullino, & Khazaal,
2017).
The case Management;
Clients’ name: Cate
Age: 19-years-old

5. Gender: Female
Problem description
Strategies
Goals
Outcome
Cate has two major problems. One is the fact that her stepfather
is taking advantage of her sexually and the second problem is
her constant use of illegal substances.
To aid her to heal, some treatment strategies could be
implemented. Such include basic education on the dangers of
substance abuse. Counseling could also assist in this matter as
well as sexual harassment by her stepfather. Encouraging cate
to participate in extra-curricular activities could help keep her
mind engaged thus no thoughts of using drugs.
Attending seminars in relation to sexual harassment and joining
support groups could also be of help (Joo, & Huber, 2015).
-Establish a stronger relationship with her mother and opening
up to her in relation to being sexually harassed by her
stepfather.
-Improve her academic performance.
-Get to forgive her stepfather.
-Engage in physical activities and interact more with peers.
Upon the achievement of these goals, Cate will find peace with
herself as well as persons around her. She will be able to
interact with her peers and also improve her academic
performance.
Clients’ name: Taylor
Age: 39-years-old
Gender: Female
Problem description
Strategies
Goals
Outcome
Taylor is a busy woman who hardly has time to spend with her
daughter. The key problem is her absenteeism in her daughter’s

6. life.
A strategy that could be implemented is the formulation of
activities that Taylor could use to spend more time with Cate
such as swimming. This way, Taylor will be able to get to know
Cate a little bit more.
-Improve her relationship with her daughter.
-Creating time to interact with Cate
-Being Cate’s confidant.
Achieving these set goals, Taylor’s relationship with Cate will
gradually improve. Also, she would be in a better position to
notice any changes in relation to her daughter.
Taylor would also help her daughter in the process of healing
from the trauma.
Clients’ name: David
Age: 38-years-old
Gender: Male
Problem description
Strategies
Goals
Outcome
David is a drunkard who sexually assaults his step-daughter.
David requires rehabilitation for the over-use of alcohol.
Legal action ought to be taken for sexually harassing Cate
(Penzenstadler et al., 2017).
David could also join forums that will educate him on matters
relating to businesses and gaining self-employment.
-Quit abusing alcohol.
-Face the legal punishment allocated to him.
-Seek forgiveness from both Cate and Taylor.
-Find a job or start up a business.
After achieving these goals, David would be able to find a job

7. and repair his relationship with his stepdaughter.
The case management plan, generally describes how the issue at
hand should be handled to achieve the optimum best results.
Joining support groups, such as Alcohol Anonymous for David,
will aid in accomplishing the set goals for all the clients. Also,
social relations and interaction will be of help to the clients,
through which Cate will be able to interact with her peers as
well as her mother, David will openly speak of his alcohol
addiction and gain support from both friends and family.
Maintaining a commitment towards the set goals will generally
improve the quality of life of the clients (Joo, & Huber, 2015).
References
Joo, J. Y., & Huber, D. L. (2015). Community‐based case
management effectiveness in populations that abuse
substances. International nursing review, 62(4), 536-546.
Penzenstadler, L., Machado, A., Thorens, G., Zullino, D., &
Khazaal, Y. (2017). Effect of case management interventions
for patients with substance use disorders: a systematic
review. Frontiers in psychiatry, 8, 51.
Running head: ASSIGNMENT 3
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ASSIGNMENT 3
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Assignment 3
Walden University
Linda Dotson
Professor Vermillion
Capstone
December 15, 2019
Assignment 3
Interviewing is a fundamental skill in the field of human
services. Human services professionals have to make daily
choices on the specific interviewing strategies

8. to use. This helps them to best meet the needs of a wide
diversity of clients. This paper examines the purpose of
knowing and using different styles of an interview. The paper
also explores the kinds of specific behaviors a professional
would engage in while conducting interviews.
A human services professional helps clients by providing the
required daily support. Effective interviewing skills enable
human services professionals to communicate with clients and
quickly ascertain the problems they face. Human services
professionals usually spend a lot of time interviewing clients
and trying to assist them. A human services professional can
either chose to use either structured interviews or unstructured
interviews. This depends on the situation of the client being
interviewed
.
Structured interviews involve reading the questions exactly as
they appear in the interview guide. The type of questions asked
in a structured interview is often fixed (close-ended) in
advance, though open-ended questions can also be included. A
structured interview also standardizes the order in which
questions are asked by the human services professional. The
questions asked are always answered within the same context.
The purpose of the structured interviews is to ensure that each
interview is presented with exactly the same questions in the
same order. This will ensure that answers can be reliably
aggregated hence the counselor
can be able to easily find out the solution to the problem facing
the client.
Unstructured interviews help the human services professional to
understand the behavior of individuals (Doody & Noonan,
2013). The questions asked to occur in a natural course of an
interaction between the human services professional and the
client. The human services professional follow the narrations of
a respondent then comes up with questions from them, although

9. the professional may have a list of questions as a guideline.
Unstructured interviews are undertaken for the purpose of
collecting data about the cognitive processes and experiences of
a client (Jones, 2010). The questions asked by the human
services professional are largely unscripted. The human services
professional aims at collecting data that may help him/her to
effectively address the needs of the client.
The human services professional should have a well-developed
understanding of an issue facing the client (Bui et al., 2015).
This will allow him/her to come up with a highly structured
interview guide that will provide a client with meaningful,
appropriate and relevant response categories to choose from for
each question. Structured interviews are, therefore, appropriate
to be used when there is an adequate understanding of a
problem facing the client (Tolin et
al., 2018).
Unstructured interviews might be used there is a need to allow
clients to give their own answers. It is also suitable when there
is a need to modify questions depending on the answers given
by the clients. Questions can also be added or eliminated in the
course of the interview. Unstructured interviews might also be
used when there is a need to allow clients to answer questions
asked in some profundity with their own choice of words. This
can in turn aid the professional to have an insight on how the
client understands the issues facing him
/her. Unstructured interviews might also be suitable when there
is a need to create qualitative data. Finally, I can use the
unstructured interview when I want to inquire more about the
issues facing the client. This will give me an opportunity to get
an in-depth understanding and clarification.
It is important for a human service professional to analyze first
the problem presented
by the client. This will enable him to understand the problem
and also examine the extent of the problem. This is also

10. significant in determining the appropriate interviewing
technique to be adopted by the professionals. Human services
professionals should always strive to use the types of interviews
that are appropriate for the client. This will enable human
services professionals to come up with the best
recommendations for solving the problem facing a client.
References
Bui, E., Mauro, C., Robinaugh, D. J., Skritskaya, N. A., Wang,
Y., Gribbin, C., ... & Zisook, S. (2015). The structured clinical
interview for complicated grief: reliability, validity, and
exploratory factor analysis. Depression and anxiety, 32(7), 485-
492.
Doody, O., & Noonan, M. (2013). Preparing and conducting
interviews to collect data.
Jones, K. D. (2010). The unstructured clinical interview.
Journal of Counseling & Development, 88(2), 220–226.
Tolin, D. F., Gilliam, C., Wootton, B. M., Bowe, W., Bragdon,
L. B., Davis, E., ... & Hallion, L. S. (2018). Psychometric
properties of a structured diagnostic interview for DSM-5
anxiety, mood, and obsessive-compulsive and related
disorders. Assessment, 25(1), 3-13.
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11. interview would need to be documented.
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Running head: ASSIGNMENT 1
ASSIGNMENT 1
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Assignment 1
Linda Dotson
Walden University
Case Management for Persons in Need
Professor Smith
June 3, 2018
ASSIGNMENT 1

12. According to Woodside, and McClam, (2016), generalist case
management model is vital for assisting the clients to recognize
their personal needs and their broker resources. Next, Clinical
case management, clinical approach is essential in the instance
of rehabilitation as it combines the psychotherapy and training
on some related skills (Funder et al., 2016).
Strength and weaknesses of generalist model
The generalist approach is very useful in helping people that are
prone to abusing substances and rehabilitation, as it helps
individuals to adopt better behaviors. Next, the strategy is
practical for helping a large number of cases as it has limited
follow-up time. There is no ongoing monitoring, which is
provided or is instead very brief. Secondly, the approach limits
the planning time for case managers before initial contact with
the client (Woodside, and McClam, 2016).
Strengths and weakness of clinical case approach
It recognizes the special needs of individuals that are prone to
substance abuse. Secondly, the procedure entails therapeutic
relations with the clients as a way of redressing the client’s
special needs. Inadequate access to resources which are crucial
for supporting the services of case management. Secondly, it
becomes difficult in retaining qualified staffs of case
management due to high low compensation and the high level of
demand (Funder et al., 2016).
Application
Generalist approach is helpful in Jason case as it helps John to
recognize that the drug abuse is responsible for his
disorientation and results in the schizophrenic attack, Jason will
understand and try improving from drug abuse. The clinical
approach will apply therapy activities to help Jason overcome
the drug abuse, and specialized case manager’s staffs will offer
training. In Charlene case, the clinical approach will employ
therapeutic techniques which will help Charlene to overcome as

13. she will be trained on the best way of tackling the father’s
aggressiveness effectively. Generalist technique will help
Charlene to help the father overcome the issues drug abuse
(Funder et al., 2016). The generalist approach will be
instrumental in helping, Robert, Adam, and Abigail to
understand the problems that they are facing. All their issue are
related to addiction to drugs by the Victoria which split the
entire family. The clinical approach will offer rehabilitation for
the existing conditions as case managers will offer advice for
the whole family (Woodside, and McClam, 2016).
References
Funder, J. W., Carey, R. M., Mantero, F., Murad, M. H.,
Reincke, M., Shibata, H., & Young Jr, W. F. (2016). The
management of primary aldosteronism: case detection,
diagnosis, and treatment: an endocrine society clinical practice
guideline. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &
Metabolism, 101(5), 1889-1916.
Woodside, M. R., & McClam, T. (2016). Generalist case
management: A method of human service delivery. Nelson
Education.